Fast Reasoning Tier

Mercury 2

A speed-focused reasoning model profile for interactive assistants and low-latency enterprise workflows.

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Last reviewed: 2026-03-15

Context Window

128,000

Input / 1M

$0.38

Output / 1M

$1.13

Watch Mercury 2 in Remova

See how a team selects Mercury 2, passes policy checks, and routes the request safely through Remova.

Use Mercury 2 Safely on Remova
A 36-second overview showing how teams can select Mercury 2 inside Remova, pass policy checks, apply it to real-world work, and use advanced AI with redaction, routing, budgets, and audit trails.
Video transcript
Mercury 2 for enterprise AI. Remova routes model access, long-context analysis, and assistant workflows through governance controls. In the Remova interface, a user selects Mercury 2, passes sensitive data redaction, budget threshold, and role access checks, then runs the request safely. Teams can use Mercury 2 for summarize long documents, support finance planning, prepare legal and compliance reviews, create presentations, code and debug, analyze spreadsheets. Use Mercury 2 safely on Remova with redaction, routing, budgets, and audit trails built in. Sign up now.

What can you do with Mercury 2?

Practical ways teams can use Mercury 2 inside governed AI workflows.

Summarize long documents with Mercury 2

Condense contracts, policies, technical specs, RFPs, and research reports into decision-ready summaries with Mercury 2.

Support finance planning with Mercury 2

Draft budget narratives, explain spend drivers, create forecast assumptions, and summarize vendor costs with Mercury 2.

Prepare legal and compliance reviews with Mercury 2

Extract obligations, flag risky clauses, compare policy language, and prepare review checklists with Mercury 2.

Create presentations with Mercury 2

Turn notes, research, and meeting outcomes into structured slide outlines, speaker notes, and executive narratives with Mercury 2.

Code and debug with Mercury 2

Draft features, explain unfamiliar code, generate tests, review pull requests, and reason through implementation tradeoffs with Mercury 2.

Analyze spreadsheets with Mercury 2

Interpret CSV exports, explain variance, generate formulas, and identify operational or financial patterns with Mercury 2.

Draft customer communications with Mercury 2

Create support replies, sales follow-ups, onboarding emails, renewal messages, and account updates with Mercury 2.

Build workflow automations with Mercury 2

Plan agent steps, transform data between tools, create structured outputs, and support repeatable operations with Mercury 2.

Research competitors and markets with Mercury 2

Synthesize market signals, positioning, pricing context, customer segments, and competitive risks with Mercury 2.

Create knowledge-base answers with Mercury 2

Answer employee questions from internal policies, product docs, training material, and operating procedures with Mercury 2.

Improve security reviews with Mercury 2

Classify risk, draft incident summaries, review access patterns, and create remediation action lists with Mercury 2.

Generate product and marketing copy with Mercury 2

Create landing-page drafts, positioning variants, launch messaging, ad concepts, and campaign briefs with Mercury 2.

Why this model

Mercury 2 is positioned as a very fast reasoning model, suitable for use cases where response time is a first-class requirement.

Strong latency profile for live assistant experiences.
Cost-efficient for medium-complexity reasoning tasks.
Useful for workflows needing quick iterative responses.
Pairs well with escalation to deeper models when needed.

At a glance

Model ID: inception/mercury-2
Context Window: 128,000 tokens
Modality: text->text
Input Price: $0.38 per 1M tokens
Output Price: $1.13 per 1M tokens
Provider: Inception
Listing Date: 2026-03-04

Strengths

Fast response time for interactive employee tools.
Low-cost reasoning compared with premium tiers.
Good fit for high-frequency operational queries.
Supports responsive UX in internal applications.

Tradeoffs

Less suitable for deepest strategic reasoning tasks.
No multimodal input in this profile.
May require fallback for complex legal or code synthesis.
Quality can vary on long-horizon planning prompts.

Best for

Real-time support assistants for operations teams.
Rapid first-pass analysis for large ticket queues.
Interactive workflow copilots in internal tools.
Low-latency Q&A for process and policy lookup.

Rollout checklist

Deploy in latency-sensitive assistant endpoints first.
Define escalation path for high-complexity prompts.
Track response-time and quality together.
Set guardrails for unsupported long-horizon tasks.
Tune prompts for concise, actionable responses.

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Tuning notes

max_tokens

Keep outputs concise to preserve fast interaction loops.

temperature

Use lower values for reliable operational responses.

top_p

Tighter sampling often improves consistency at high volume.

response_format

Prefer predictable structure for real-time automation.

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