Inception
Mercury 3 API pricing.
Mercury 3 is Inception’s model on the API market, released 16 Oct 2026. Prices are per million tokens in USD, as last read from the price list.
$0.10Input / 1M
$0.35Output / 1M
1MContext
131KMax output
Specification
USD per million tokens- Provider
- Inception
- Model id
inception/mercury-3- Input
- $0.10
- Output
- $0.35
- Cached input
- $0.010
- Context window
- 1M tokens
- Maximum output
- 131K tokens
- Takes
- text
- Returns
- text
- Tool use
- Yes
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Released
- 16 Oct 2026
- First tracked
- 19 Oct 2026
At $0.10 per million input tokens, Mercury 3 is dearer than 54 of the 340 models on the price list.
Price changes
Tracked since 17 Sept 2026No price change has been recorded since tracking began on 17 Sept 2026. Prices are checked every six hours, and any change is listed here and on model changes.
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Coverage
2 stories- The Decoder ·Inception's Mercury 3 diffusion model claims to beat GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 at a fraction of the wait
- SiliconANGLE AI ·Inception says Mercury 3 beats GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 at up to 8x the speed
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