Model prices / Inception / Mercury 3
Mercury 3
Inception · released 2026-10-16
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.
Price by providerUSD per 1M tokens
| Provider | Input | Output | Cached | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| InceptionOfficialmercury-3 | $0.1 | $0.35 | $0.01 | Official | Official docs |
NNanoGPTinception/ | $0.1 | $0.35 | $0.01 | Official docs |
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About
Inception's diffusion reasoning model for chat, multi-step problem solving, and tool use
Description from models.dev.
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Context
- 1M
- Max output
- 131K
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- Yes
- Knowledge cutoff
- —
- Open weights
- No
- Released
- 2026-10-16
Source
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.