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Mercury 3
Mercury 3 is a fast model from Inception, released 19 October 2026. At Inception it costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.35 per million output tokens, with a 1M-token context window.
- Made by
- Inception
- Released
- 2026-10-19
- Status
- Generally available, new
- Tier
- Fast
- Weights
- Closed
- Context window
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Input
- text
- API id
mercury-3
Mercury 3 price at Inception
US dollars per million tokens. Blended is 3 input tokens for every output token, one number to compare on.
| Provider | Input | Output | Cached input | Blended | Batch | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inception · maker | $0.10 | $0.35 | $0.01 | $0.163 | – | 2026-10-19 |
- Inception: Launch price, 50% off the $0.20 in / $0.70 out list price (end date not given). Cached input is 90% off the input price. Diffusion LLM; Inception reports 1,068 tokens/s. 100M free tokens for new API users.
Models like Mercury 3
Other fast models closest in price, at each maker's own price or the cheapest provider.
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Weights |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercury 3 | $0.10 | $0.35 | 1M | Closed |
| NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super NVIDIA | $0.085 | $0.40 | 262K | Open |
| Llama 3.3 70B Meta | $0.10 | $0.32 | 131K | Open |
| NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL NVIDIA | $0.10 | $0.40 | 262K | Open |
| Ministral 3 8B Mistral AI | $0.15 | $0.15 | 256K | Open |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 Anthropic | $0.10 | $0.50 | 1M | Closed |
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Mercury 3 FAQ
How much does Mercury 3 cost?
Mercury 3 costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.35 per million output tokens at Inception, and $0.01 per million cached input tokens. Prices are list prices in US dollars, last checked 19 October 2026.
What is Mercury 3's context window?
Mercury 3 takes up to 1,000,000 tokens in one request.
Is Mercury 3 open weight?
No. Mercury 3 is only available through Inception's API; Inception doesn't publish the weights.
Where can I use Mercury 3?
Mercury 3 is available from Inception. At Inception, call it as mercury-3.