More builders. More throughput. Better Mercury 2.
More builders. More throughput. Better Mercury 2.
Inception Labs has launched Mercury 2, increasing the number of free tokens from 10M to 100M. The new Inception API key includes 100M free tokens, and the free tier's request frequency has been increased 10 times. Mercury 2 performs better in real-time speech, search, AI coding sub-agents, and multi-agent workflows. The first token response time is reduced, end-to-end latency is lowered, and tool calls are more reliable.
Over the past few months, thousands of developers have started building with Mercury across real-time voice applications, search and retrieval pipelines, and AI coding subagents. As we’ve scaled capacity, we’ve also continued improving the model itself.
Today, we’re making Mercury easier to build with.
100M free tokens, up from 10M
Every new Inception API key now includes 100 million free tokens. Enough headroom to benchmark Mercury against your current stack on production workloads.
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10x higher rate limits
We've increased free-tier rate limits by 10x, so you can run production-like traffic without hitting a wall.
A faster, more capable Mercury 2
Since launch, we’ve continued improving Mercury 2 across production workloads:
Lower time-to-first-token
Lower end-to-end latency
More reliable tool calling
These improvements are especially noticeable for real-time voice, search, coding agents, and multi-agent workflows, where latency compounds across every model call.
Today, dozens of AI-native companies and enterprises run Mercury 2 in production.
Now available on Baseten
Mercury 2 is live on Baseten today as part of the launch of Baseten for Model Labs. If your team already builds there, you can add Mercury 2 to your stack without onboarding a new provider.
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For enterprise rate limits, tighter latency budgets, SLAs, or help tuning a specific workload, contact [email protected]. Response within an hour.
Source: Inception Labs Blog · inceptionlabs.ai