Mercury 2 is an extremely fast reasoning LLM, and the first reasoning diffusion LLM (dLLM). Instead of generating tokens sequentially, Mercury 2 produces and refines multiple tokens in parallel, achieving >1,000 tokens/sec on standard GPUs.…
Model details →Inception: Mercury 2 vs Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 is a high-performance, open-weight Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model optimized for complex reasoning tasks. It activates 22B of its 235B parameters per forward pass and natively supports up to 262,144 tok…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Inception: Mercury 2 | Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 128K | 131K | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $0.25 | $0.15 | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $0.75 | $1.50 | 🏆 Inception: Mercury 2 |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | — | — | Tie |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
Frequently asked questions
Is Inception: Mercury 2 better than Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507?
Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Inception: Mercury 2 and Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507?
Input: $0.25 vs $0.15 per 1M tokens. Output: $0.75 vs $1.50 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Inception: Mercury 2 and Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 support?
Inception: Mercury 2 supports up to 128K tokens. Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 supports up to 131K tokens.
Do both Inception: Mercury 2 and Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 support tool calling?
Inception: Mercury 2: yes. Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507: yes.