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Inception: 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...
Quality Score
99/100
price + capability + benchmarks
Input Price
$0.10
per 1M tokens · checked 2026-10-20
Output Price
$0.35
per 1M tokens · checked 2026-10-20
Context Window
1,000,000
tokens
- Model ID
- inception/mercury-3
- Vendor
- inception
- Released
- October 2026
- Tokenizer
- Other
- Input Modalities
- text
- Output Modalities
- text
- Max Output
- 131,072 tokens
- Tool Calling
- ✓ supported
- Structured Output
- ✓ supported
- Reasoning Mode
- ✓ supported
- Vision
- text only
- Audio
- no
- Moderated
- no
What it costs in practice
Computed from the current $0.10/M input and $0.35/M output rates. Run your own numbers →
| Job | Tokens | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Summarize a 50-page report | 30k in / 1.5k out | under $0.01 |
| Classify 1,000 customer emails | 500k in / 50k out | $0.07 |
| A month of a busy support chatbot | 5M in / 2M out | $1.20 |
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Quick answers
- How much does Inception: Mercury 3 cost?
- $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.35 per million output tokens.
- What is Inception: Mercury 3's context window?
- 1,000,000 tokens, roughly 1,500 pages of text in a single request.
- Does Inception: Mercury 3 support tool calling?
- It supports tool calling, structured output, a reasoning mode.
- Can Inception: Mercury 3 process images?
- No, it is text-only on the input side.