# Mercury 3 API pricing

The official API price of Mercury 3 is $0.1 per 1M input tokens and $0.35 per 1M output tokens (as of 2026-11-12). Context window: 1M tokens, up to 131K output tokens per request. 2 providers sell it, none below the official price.

- Type: Text
- Context: 1M
- Max output: 131K
- Released: 2026-10-16
- Open weights: No

## Price by provider (USD per 1M tokens)

| Provider | Model id | Input | Output | Cached | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Inception](https://docs.inceptionlabs.ai/get-started/models) | mercury-3 | $0.1 | $0.35 | $0.01 | Official |
| [NanoGPT](https://docs.nano-gpt.com) | inception/mercury-3 | $0.1 | $0.35 | $0.01 |  |

Providers are those listed by models.dev. This site has not vetted them one by one; each provider's own page has the binding price.

Prices and specs come from models.dev (MIT licence), updated 2026-11-12. Each provider's name links to its official docs. A provider priced at 0 usually includes the model in a subscription; it is not necessarily a free API.

https://apibook.ai/models/inception/mercury-3/