Inception

Inception Labs builds diffusion-based large language models (dLLMs) branded Mercury. Unlike autoregressive models that emit tokens one at a time, Mercury generates many tokens in parallel through discrete diffusion, running 5-10x faster at roughly half the cost of comparable frontier models. The Inception API is OpenAI-compatible and exposes chat completions (Mercury 2, a reasoning dLLM with a 128K context, tool calling, and structured outputs), plus fill-in-the-middle and next-edit code completions (Mercury Edit 2) for IDE-style autocomplete. It ships official Python and TypeScript SDKs, a streaming/diffusion mode, and enterprise deployment via the Inception API, AWS Bedrock, and Azure AI Foundry. Backed by Amplify Partners.

Inception publishes 4 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Edit API, FIM API, Models API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, LLM, Diffusion Models, and Code Completion.

The Inception catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Inception’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, authentication, engineering blog, support, pricing, and 27 more developer resources.

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1 published contract 3 Agent Skills

Company Artificial Intelligence LLM Diffusion Models Code Completion Machine Learning Developer Tools Foundation Models

What this lets a business do 2

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

AI Model Services

AE-110

Edit

POST /v1/edit/completions

Information & Data Management

BC-610

FIM

POST /v1/fim/completions

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 49.5/100 · developing

Contract Quality 10.4 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 8.8 / 15

Access Clarity 10.5 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.5 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.4 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 32/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks

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Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Operational Transparency scores 2.6 — up to +12.7 composite points
Contract Quality scores 55.7 — up to +11.1 composite points
Contract Governance scores 18.2 — up to +9.8 composite points

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
AI Model Routing	covered	38.0	-	1
IDE Extension Marketplaces (JetBrains, VS Code, Open VSX, Docker Verified Publishers, PyPI orgs)	covered	38.0	-	1

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Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

The OpenAI Interface reaches core

declared — publishes a spec that declares them

2 core of 338 operations graded · api-commons/models

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 4

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Inception Edit API

Code edit completion endpoints.

Inception FIM API

Fill-in-the-middle code completion endpoints.

Inception Models API

List available models.

Inception Chat Completions API

Chat completion endpoints (OpenAI-compatible).

Open Collections 4

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Inception Chat API

OPEN COLLECTION

Inception Chat Edit API

OPEN COLLECTION

Inception Chat FIM API

OPEN COLLECTION

Inception Chat Models API

OPEN COLLECTION

Arazzo Workflows 2

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Inception — discover a chat model and generate a completion

List the available Mercury chat models, then send a chat completion.

ARAZZO

Inception — fill-in-the-middle code autocomplete

Confirm a FIM model then generate an inline code completion with Mercury Edit 2.

ARAZZO

Agent Skills 3

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Generate a chat completion with Mercury 2

AGENT SKILL

Inline code autocomplete and next-edit with Mercury Edit 2

AGENT SKILL

Run a tool-calling agent turn with Mercury 2

AGENT SKILL

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Inception Plans

6 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Inception Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Inception Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Inception API Rules

62 rules · 60 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Inception Openapi Overlay

4 actions · update · inception-openapi-original.json

DERIVED

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Inception Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Inception Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Inception Agentic Access

7 operations · 3 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

OpenAPI

OpenAPI

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Arazzo

Arazzo

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conventions

Conformance

DataModel

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Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: inception
name: Inception
description: Inception Labs builds diffusion-based large language models (dLLMs) branded Mercury. Unlike autoregressive models
  that emit tokens one at a time, Mercury generates many tokens in parallel through discrete diffusion, running 5-10x faster
  at roughly half the cost of comparable frontier models. The Inception API is OpenAI-compatible and exposes chat completions
  (Mercury 2, a reasoning dLLM with a 128K context, tool calling, and structured outputs), plus fill-in-the-middle and next-edit
  code completions (Mercury Edit 2) for IDE-style autocomplete. It ships official Python and TypeScript SDKs, a streaming/diffusion
  mode, and enterprise deployment via the Inception API, AWS Bedrock, and Azure AI Foundry. Backed by Amplify Partners.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/inception/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-02'
  method: derived
image: https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/logo.png
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- amplify-partners
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment-pipeline
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
x-docs-platform: mintlify
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-03
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- LLM
- Diffusion Models
- Code Completion
- Machine Learning
- Developer Tools
- Foundation Models
tags_raw:
- Company
- Ai Ml
- LLM
- Artificial Intelligence
- Diffusion Models
- Code Completion
- Machine Learning
- Developer Tools
- Machine-Learning
- Foundation Models
apis:
- aid: inception:inception-edit-api
  name: Inception Edit API
  description: Code edit completion endpoints.
  humanURL: https://docs.inceptionlabs.ai/get-started/get-started
  baseURL: https://api.inceptionlabs.ai
  tags:
  - Edit
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/inception-edit-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.inceptionlabs.ai/get-started/get-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.inceptionlabs.ai/api-reference/chat/create-a-chat-completion
- aid: inception:inception-fim-api
  name: Inception FIM API
  description: Fill-in-the-middle code completion endpoints.
  humanURL: https://docs.inceptionlabs.ai/get-started/get-started
  baseURL: https://api.inceptionlabs.ai
  tags:
  - FIM
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/inception-fim-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.inceptionlabs.ai/get-started/get-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.inceptionlabs.ai/api-reference/chat/create-a-chat-completion
- aid: inception:inception-models-api
  name: Inception Models API
  description: List available models.
  humanURL: https://docs.inceptionlabs.ai/get-started/get-started
  baseURL: https://api.inceptionlabs.ai
  tags:
  - Models
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/inception-models-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.inceptionlabs.ai/get-started/get-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.inceptionlabs.ai/api-reference/chat/create-a-chat-completion
- aid: inception:inception-chat-completions-api
  name: Inception Chat Completions API
  description: Chat completion endpoints (OpenAI-compatible).
  humanURL: https://docs.inceptionlabs.ai/get-started/get-started
  baseURL: https://api.inceptionlabs.ai
  tags:
  - Chat Completions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/inception-chat-completions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.inceptionlabs.ai/get-started/get-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.inceptionlabs.ai/api-reference/chat/create-a-chat-completion
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/inception-capability-edges.yml
  name: Inception Business Capability Map
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/inception-chat-completion.arazzo.yml
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/inception-code-autocomplete.arazzo.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://inceptionlabs.ai
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://platform.inceptionlabs.ai/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.inceptionlabs.ai/get-started/get-started
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.inceptionlabs.ai/api-reference/chat/create-a-chat-completion
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.inceptionlabs.ai/get-started/get-started
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/inception-authentication.yml
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://docs.inceptionlabs.ai/support/support
- type: Pricing
  url: https://docs.inceptionlabs.ai/get-started/models
- type: SignUp
  url: https://platform.inceptionlabs.ai/auth/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://docs.inceptionlabs.ai/support/tou
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://docs.inceptionlabs.ai/support/privacy
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/inception-ai-inc
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/_original/inception-openapi-original.json
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/inception-llms.txt
- type: Packages
  url: packages/inception-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/inception-packages.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/inception-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/inception-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/inception-plans.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/inception-finops.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/inception-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/inception-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/inception-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/inception-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/inception-data-model.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/inception-openapi-overlay.yaml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/inception-agentic-access.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/inception-authentication.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/inception-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Inception API — frequently asked questions

Does Inception have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from Inception, including Inception Edit API, Inception FIM API and Inception Models API, and 1 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Inception API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 4 OpenAPI specifications for Inception, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Inception API?

Inception uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Inception Authentication.

How much does the Inception API cost?

APIs.io lists 6 pricing plans for Inception, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing Plans on this page.

Is the Inception API ready for AI agents?

Inception has a Kin Score of 49.5 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 31.8 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-02.

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