token.app › Inception › Mercury 3

Mercury 3 pricing & benchmarks

Mercury 3 is available from Inception at $0.100 per million input tokens and $0.350 per million output tokens ($0.163 blended at 3:1). It accepts up to 1,000,000 tokens of context. Mercury 3 is a diffusion-based language model from Inception, and the lab's most capable model to date. It is suited for agentic workflows and real-time applications where latency compounds, such...

Pricing

Per million tokens · OpenRouter

Input$0.100

Output$0.350

Blended (3:1)$0.163

Specification

inception/mercury-3

Context window1M

Max output131K

ReleasedOct 2026

LicenceProprietary

Modalitiesin:text, out:text

No independently-run benchmark scores are published for Mercury 3 yet. We show nothing rather than reprinting an unverified figure.

Compare Mercury 3

Mercury 3 vs Gemini 3.7 Flash Mercury 3 vs Grok 4.6 Mercury 3 vs DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Mercury 3 vs Inkling Small Mercury 3 vs Qwen3.7 Flash Mercury 3 vs Claude Opus 5 Mercury 3 vs Gemini 3.6 Flash Mercury 3 vs Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite

FAQ

How much does Mercury 3 cost?

Mercury 3 costs $0.100 per million input tokens and $0.350 per million output tokens on OpenRouter. At a 3:1 input:output mix that blends to $0.163 per million tokens.

What is Mercury 3's context window?

Mercury 3 accepts up to 1,000,000 tokens of context, and can generate up to 131,072 output tokens.