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Inception builds Mercury, a family of diffusion large language models (dLLMs) that refine all tokens in parallel instead of generating them left-to-right, making them very fast. Inception serves the models through an OpenAI-compatible API, so you drive them through Agno like any other OpenAI-compatible provider. The Inception class defaults to mercury-2 and points at https://api.inceptionlabs.ai/v1.

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Authentication

  1. Create an account at the Inception Platform.
  2. Open the dashboard and go to API Keys.
  3. Create a key and set your INCEPTION_API_KEY environment variable.
export INCEPTION_API_KEY=***

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Example

Use Inception with your Agent: 
from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.models.inception import Inception

agent = Agent(model=Inception(id="mercury-2"), markdown=True)

# Print the response in the terminal
agent.print_response("Share a 2 sentence horror story.")
View more examples here.

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Parameters

ParameterTypeDefaultDescription
idstr"mercury-2"The id of the Mercury model to use
namestr"Inception"The name of the model
providerstr"InceptionLabs"The provider of the model
api_keyOptional[str]NoneThe API key for Inception (defaults to INCEPTION_API_KEY env var)
base_urlstr"https://api.inceptionlabs.ai/v1"The base URL for the Inception API
Inception extends the OpenAI-compatible interface and supports most parameters from the OpenAI model. Note: Inception’s OpenAI-compatible endpoint does not advertise native json_schema structured outputs, so supports_native_structured_outputs is set to False. Use use_json_mode=True for structured output. To hit a different host (private deployment, regional endpoint), pass base_url: 
Inception(id="mercury-2", base_url="https://your-host.example.com/v1")

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Available Models

Model idNotes
mercury-2Flagship reasoning dLLM. Tunable reasoning depth, 128K context, native tool use, JSON output.
mercury-coder-smallCoding-focused variant for latency-sensitive code workflows.
The original mercury model is only available to accounts created before February 24, 2026. New accounts should use mercury-2 (or the coder variants) instead.