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OpenRouter inception/mercury-2.5-20260908 model retirement

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On November 8, 2026, the model inception/mercury-2.5-20260908 will stop working. API requests that specify model inception/mercury-2.5-20260908 will fail after that date.


The error you get from November 8, 2026

What OpenRouter answers a call to inception/mercury-2.5-20260908 once the model is gone, as recorded from real responses:

HTTP 404
{"error":{"message":"No endpoints found for inception/mercury-2.5-20260908.","code":404}}

What to use instead of inception/mercury-2.5-20260908

OpenRouter will stop serving the model, so you must update your requests to another model it lists.


Facts

API
OpenRouter openrouter.ai
Model
inception/mercury-2.5-20260908
Kind
Model retirement
Takes effect
November 8, 2026
Calls after that day
Fail
Source
Model list
Last updated
Verified
, against OpenRouter's own pages

Questions

When does inception/mercury-2.5-20260908 shut down?

Calls to the model inception/mercury-2.5-20260908 on OpenRouter stop working on November 8, 2026.

What happens to calls after November 8, 2026?

They fail from that day.

What error does inception/mercury-2.5-20260908 return once it is shut down?

OpenRouter answers HTTP 404: "No endpoints found for inception/mercury-2.5-20260908.". Send another model to fix it.

How do I find the calls this hits in my code?

Okapi reads your repository, finds the calls this change hits and opens a pull request with the fix. It never commits to your branches: every change comes as a pull request you review.


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