Mercury 3
- Out Output modalities: Text
- Reasoning· low, medium, high
- Tool use
- Structured output
Prices
1 offering · prices as listed Inception API (opens in a new tab)
mercury-3| Conditions/ 1M tokens | Input | Cache read | Output |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | $0.20 | $0.020 | $0.70 |
Prices from Inception: models (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 2, 2026)
Standard: the price a request with no conditions pays (the headline price elsewhere on the site).
Details
- Family
- mercury
- Model ID
Not stated on Inception’s pages: max input, input modalities, reasoning can be off, max thinking budget, built-in tools, knowledge cutoff, aliases.
Cited scores
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News
All news →- Oct 19, 2026Release Inception releases Mercury 3 Mercury 3 is available on Inception’s API Platform, OpenRouter, Baseten, and Vercel. It has a 1M-token context and standard pricing of $0.20 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens; launch pricing is 50% off.
Changes
All changes →- New language model
Sources
- Diffusion at Scale: Introducing Mercury 3 (opens in a new tab) inceptionlabs.ai · checked Nov 5, 2026
- Natural Language SQL Agent: Mercury 3 + Tool Calling (opens in a new tab) docs.inceptionlabs.ai · checked Nov 4, 2026
- Inception Platform (opens in a new tab) docs.inceptionlabs.ai · checked Nov 5, 2026
- Inception: models (opens in a new tab) docs.inceptionlabs.ai · checked Nov 2, 2026
- Inception: models (opens in a new tab) docs.inceptionlabs.ai · checked Nov 1, 2026
- Search Agent: Mercury 3 + Web Search (opens in a new tab) docs.inceptionlabs.ai · checked Nov 5, 2026
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