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Inception: Mercury 2

Try Mercury 2 on us. Starter credit covers your first requests, then one key reaches this route and every other model in the catalog.

`inception/mercury-2`

Inception Labs

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Publisher	Inception Labsinception
AI IQ	IQ 93 #156 on AI IQ
Context	128,000 tokens
Providers	Inception Labs
Credits routes	1 provider route
Modes	chat
Billing	Credits

Current route evidence

Live leaderboard

$0.26375/1MLowest Credits input price

$0.79125/1MLowest Credits output price

1070 msFastest measured p50 TTFT via inception

not enough dataHighest measured throughput

Recent provider-route uptime spans 100.00% across 1 route and 1 provider. Price comes from the current Credits catalog. Speed and uptime come from routed probes rather than vendor claims.

Providers serving this model

Sorted by lowest combined prompt and completion price. Use "provider": {"sort": "throughput"} in the request body (or append :nitro to the model id) to route to the fastest provider instead.

Trust boundary: TR router attestation verifies the TrustedRouter gateway only. Provider policy separately describes the upstream model host's retention, confidential compute, and E2EE posture. Company country is separate from inference location. Weight formats are source-backed declarations, not per-request proofs.

Provider	Input	Cached input	Output	Weight format	Provider policy	Company / inference location	Measured speed
Inception Labsinception	$0.26375/1M	$0.026375/1M	$0.79125/1M	Unknown	privacy unknown Retention details No contractual zero-retention, confidential-compute, or E2EE claim is tracked for TrustedRouter's Inception account. This route is Standard. Provider policy source	Operator country: Not verified Location details Headquarters / registered office: Not verified. Inference: Inference location not verified; no country-specific residency commitment. No inference-location declaration has been verified for this provider. Region pinning through TR: No verified provider-specific location pin documented here. Full location evidence	TTFT: 1.07 s Speed: insufficient data Last sample: 2026-10-31T07:33:38.000Z

Speed is the median (p50) from TR's recent measured requests for this exact model and provider, refreshed from the cached leaderboard. At least two timing samples are required; workload and network conditions affect results. Performance details

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Questions

What model ID should I use for Inception: Mercury 2?

Use inception/mercury-2 as the model field with the TrustedRouter OpenAI-compatible API. Credits routing and provider fallback happen behind that model ID.

Which providers serve Inception: Mercury 2?

TrustedRouter currently lists Inception Labs for Inception: Mercury 2. Provider availability and routing eligibility can change as catalog and health data update.

How much does Inception: Mercury 2 cost through TrustedRouter?

The current lowest Credits input price is $0.26375/1M and the lowest Credits output price is $0.79125/1M. Prices are per one million tokens and come from the current route catalog.

How do I require zero data retention for Inception: Mercury 2?

Set provider.min_privacy to zdr on the request. TrustedRouter considers only routes with a recorded zero-data-retention posture and fails closed if no eligible route remains.