Tasks and inputs
Mercury 2 is listed for Text generation. It accepts text and produces text. Use the publisher’s input format and preprocessing for your chosen deployment.
Mercury 2 from Inception: Reasoning model for deliberate analysis, multi-step problem solving, and tool use.
Recorded modality support shows what this model can accept and produce. An undocumented modality is shown as unknown rather than assumed to be unsupported.
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Inception’s current model page keeps Mercury 1, Mercury 2 and Mercury Edit 2 supported for existing customers. Mercury 2 therefore remains a relevant version for an existing integration even though Mercury 2.5 is the current general starting point. Existing-customer support is different from retirement and does not establish unrestricted access for every new account.
Record the exact API route, model identifier and account conditions used by an existing application. Before moving to Mercury 2.5, replay the message history, tool schemas and expected response format on representative tasks. A shared diffusion architecture does not guarantee that every prompt, control or output behaves identically between revisions.
Confirm legacy access or migration with the provider. A separate current first-party token rate and maximum output allowance for this earlier revision have not been established in this review, so no replacement price or output cap is invented. Hosted partners can have their own account rules and limits; retain those deployment details when reproducing a result.
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Mercury 2 is listed for Text generation. It accepts text and produces text. Use the publisher’s input format and preprocessing for your chosen deployment.
Documented limits: 128K context. Measure a completed task using the prompts, documents and tools your application will use. Include reasoning and retries in the result.
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