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Mercury 2 lands on Baseten with 100M free tokens and 10x rate limits

Source: x.com
Date: Published Jul 29, 2026

Inception@_inception_ai

No single model will win every workload. Voice, coding sub-agents, and search pipelines each require a different balance of intelligence, latency, and cost. That’s where diffusion LLMs shine. Excited to build towards this future alongside @baseten. To celebrate, we’re giving builders: 👉100M free Mercury tokens 👉10x higher rate limits 👉A faster, more capable Mercury 2 Start building → https://t.co/EnT7LcVcYS

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Context

Inception's July 29, 2026 promotion expanded the allowance for testing Mercury through its own API: 100 million free per new API key, up from 10 million, alongside tenfold higher free-tier rate limits. The larger allowance addresses total test volume; the higher rate limit allows requests to be sent more quickly. The same announcement also discussed Mercury 2 on Baseten, but the free allowance was explicitly attached to new Inception API keys. Promotion details

Terms in this piece · Glossary

token — The chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.
subagent — A separate agent spawned by another to do one scoped piece of work in its own context, returning only the result.

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