BaseRT

BaseRT

Base Compute
Mercury 2

Mercury 2

Inception
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About

BaseRT is a high-performance LLM inference runtime for Apple Silicon that lets developers pull models from Hugging Face, chat with them locally, or serve an OpenAI-compatible API from one CLI. Accelerated by hand-written Metal kernels, it is designed to deliver fast prefill and decode performance on M-series Macs, with published benchmarks showing up to 6.4× faster prefill than llama.cpp, 3.9× faster than MLX, and up to 1.33× faster decode. The basert CLI handles model downloading, conversion, interactive chat, serving, completion, benchmarking, inspection, and bundle signing. Its server supports chat, completions, embeddings, transcription, tool calls, continuous batching, paged KV caching, and prefix caching, while supported models can process text, vision, and audio. BaseRT uses its own .base model format with Q2–Q8 affine quantization, optional AWQ calibration, and signed bundles, and can convert GGUF, Hugging Face, and MLX checkpoints.

About

Mercury 2 is the first reasoning model fast enough to pick up the phone, a reasoning diffusion language model built for real-time voice agents. Instead of making callers wait through seconds of dead air while an autoregressive model generates thinking tokens one by one, Mercury 2 uses a diffusion large language model architecture to generate tokens in parallel, decoding 1000+ tokens per second on standard NVIDIA GPUs. That speed is fast enough to run a full reasoning pass and start speaking within the latency budget of a natural conversation, reducing the cost of reasoning from seconds of silence to roughly 300 milliseconds. Mercury models work by corrupting clean text into noise, then training a standard Transformer to reverse the process and predict clean text across all positions simultaneously. Because each denoising pass touches many tokens, generation uses the GPU more efficiently than one-token-at-a-time decoding, making custom-silicon-like speed possible on NVIDIA H100s.

Platforms Supported

Windows Not Supported
Mac Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Not Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Platforms Supported

Windows Not Supported
Mac Not Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Audience

AI infrastructure engineers and developers seeking a fast, private local model inference and an OpenAI-compatible backend for applications and coding agents

Audience

Voice AI developers and product teams seeking a fast reasoning model for low-latency conversational agents that still handle complex instructions

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Supported

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Supported

API

Offers API Supported

API

Offers API Supported

Screenshots and Videos

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Pricing

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Free Version Not Supported
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Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Not Supported

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Not Supported

Company Information

Base Compute
Founded: 2026
Australia
www.basecompute.co/getbasert

Company Information

Inception
United States
www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/mercury-2-the-first-reasoning-model-fast-enough-to-pick-up-the-phone

Alternatives

Alternatives

Mercury Coder

Mercury Coder

Inception Labs
Mercury Edit 2

Mercury Edit 2

Inception
DeepInfer

DeepInfer

DeepSeek
Mercury Voice

Mercury Voice

Inception
Mercury 2.5

Mercury 2.5

Inception

Categories

AI Tools Supported

Categories

AI Models Supported

Integrations

OpenAI Supported
Cerebras Not Supported
GPT-4.1 Not Supported
Gemma 3 Supported
Gemma 4 Supported
Groq Not Supported
Hugging Face Supported
Inception Labs Not Supported
LiveKit Not Supported
Llama 3.1 Supported
Llama 3.2 Supported
Mistral AI Supported
Phi-3 Supported
Pipecat Not Supported
Qwen3 Supported
Qwen3.5 Supported
Qwen3.6 Supported
Retell AI Not Supported
Vapi AI Not Supported

Integrations

OpenAI Supported
Cerebras Supported
GPT-4.1 Supported
Gemma 3 Not Supported
Gemma 4 Not Supported
Groq Supported
Hugging Face Not Supported
Inception Labs Supported
LiveKit Supported
Llama 3.1 Not Supported
Llama 3.2 Not Supported
Mistral AI Not Supported
Phi-3 Not Supported
Pipecat Supported
Qwen3 Not Supported
Qwen3.5 Not Supported
Qwen3.6 Not Supported
Retell AI Supported
Vapi AI Supported
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