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Mercury 2

A diffusion-based reasoning LLM that generates text via parallel refinement (not token-by-token), delivering real-time latency with ~1k tokens/sec plus 128K context and built-in tool/JSON support.

TEXTREASONINGREASONINGTOOL-USE
128K
CONTEXT WINDOW
128K
MAX OUTPUT TOKENS
$0.25 / 1M tokens
INPUT PRICE
$0.75 / 1M tokens
OUTPUT PRICE
QUICKSTART

Call it in one request.

OpenAI-compatible — change the base URL, and the setup is complete.

SHELL
curl https://enterprise.blackbox.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BLACKBOX_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "blackboxai/inception/mercury-2",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" }],
    "stream": true
  }'
INPUT: textOUTPUT: textRELEASED: 2026-02-24
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INCEPTION

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32K context · $0.25 / 1M tokens input · $1 / 1M tokens output