Inception: Mercury Coder

inception/mercury-coder

Created Apr 30, 2025128,000 context

$0.25/M input tokens$1/M output tokens

Mercury Coder is the first diffusion large language model (dLLM). Applying a breakthrough discrete diffusion approach, the model runs 5-10x faster than even speed optimized models like Claude 3.5 Haiku and GPT-4o Mini while matching their performance. Mercury Coder's speed means that developers can stay in the flow while coding, enjoying rapid chat-based iteration and responsive code completion suggestions. On Copilot Arena, Mercury Coder ranks 1st in speed and ties for 2nd in quality. Read more in the blog post here.

Providers for Mercury Coder

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Performance for Mercury Coder

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Apps using Mercury Coder

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Total usage per day on OpenRouter

Prompt

3.35M

Completion

1.79M

Reasoning

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Uptime stats for Mercury Coder

Uptime stats for Mercury Coder across all providers

Sample code and API for Mercury Coder

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Using third-party SDKs

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