Mercury 3
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...
Input / 1M
$0.10
Output / 1M
$0.35
Context
1M
AA Intelligence
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Pricing
via OpenRouter · USD per 1M tokens · synced 2026-10-24$0.10
input / 1M
$0.35
output / 1M
$0.01
cached input / 1M
$0.45
1M in + 1M out
- Context window
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Max output
- 131,072 tokens
- Providers
- 1
- Cheapest provider
- Inception · $0.10 / $0.35
- Best throughput
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- AA Intelligence / Coding / Agentic
- — / — / —
✓ Tool calling
✓ Reasoning
✓ Structured outputs
✗ Image input
✗ File input
✗ Audio input
✓ Prompt caching
Price history
tracking started — chart appears after 7 days of snapshots (5 recorded)Current: $0.10 input · $0.35 output per 1M tokens
Benchmarks
Third-party indices as published through OpenRouter — Artificial Analysis and Design Arena. Not measured by us.
- AA Intelligence Index
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- AA Coding Index
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- AA Agentic Index
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Design Arena
CategoryEloWin %Rank
codecategories
1230
45.4%
#51
dataviz
1208
45.8%
#55
gamedev
1221
44.3%
#47
svg
1182
43.7%
#35
uicomponent
1245
46.7%
#41
website
1222
44.7%
#58
Providers
1 provider · per 1M tokens · last 30 min metrics| Provider | Quant | Context | Input | Output | Uptime | Tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inception | unknown | 1M | $0.10 | $0.35 | 100% | — |
Provider data from OpenRouter's endpoint listing, refreshed daily.
Specifications
- Organisation
- inception
- Released on OpenRouter
- 2026-10-16
- Context window
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Max output
- 131,072 tokens
- Input
- text
- Output
- text
- Tokenizer
- Other
- Moderated by provider
- No
- OpenRouter id
- inception/mercury-3
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Prices, context and providers from the public OpenRouter API, snapshotted daily; benchmark indices from Artificial Analysis. See /methodology.