# Inception Labs

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/inception-labs/  
**Website:** https://inceptionlabs.ai  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Inception Labs builds Mercury, the first family of commercial-scale diffusion large language models (dLLMs) that generate tokens in parallel for 5-10x faster inference than comparable speed-optimized models. The Inception API is an OpenAI-compatible REST interface exposing Mercury 2 (a 128K-context reasoning dLLM) and Mercury Edit 2 (a coding-focused model) through chat, fill-in-the-middle, and code-edit completion endpoints, with server-sent-event streaming, tool calling, structured JSON-schema outputs, and an "instant" low-latency reasoning mode for realtime voice. Founded in 2024 by Stanford professor Stefano Ermon, the company is backed by Mayfield and ships official Python and TypeScript client libraries plus AWS Bedrock and Azure Foundry enterprise deployment.

## Kin Score — 43.4 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-30 under rubric 0.17.2. Trend: flat (-0.5 from 43.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 61.9 |
| Governance | 4.5 |
| Contract Governance | 4.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 58.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 38.2 |
| Access Clarity | 38.2 |

## Agent readiness — 29.0 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (4)

- **Inception Labs Chat API** — Chat completion endpoints (OpenAI-compatible).
- **Inception Labs Edit API** — Code edit completion endpoints.
- **Inception Labs FIM API** — Fill-in-the-middle code completion endpoints.
- **Inception Labs Models API** — List available models.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Inception Labs MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Inception Labs Agentic Access** — 7 operations · 3 acting

## Security (2)

- **Inception Labs Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Inception Labs Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Tags

Artificial Intelligence, Machine-Learning, Large Language Models, Diffusion Models, Generative AI, Code Completion, LLM API, OpenAI-Compatible, Developer Tools, Company

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/inception-labs/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.