Inception: Mercury 3✓ Catalog verified
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...
Overview
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...
Access: available through the official Inception API. Context window: 1M.
Specifications
| API identifier | inception/mercury-3 |
| Provider | Inception |
| Model type | Text LLM |
| Context window | 1M catalog |
| Input modalities | text |
| Output modalities | text |
| Released | Oct 16, 2026 |
| Moderated | No |
| Architecture modality | text->text |
Pricing
Live pricing components for inception/mercury-3 as published in the catalog.
| Pricing component | Raw unit price | Normalized | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prompt tokens | $1e-7 | $0.10 / 1M | Per input token |
| Completion tokens | $3.5e-7 | $0.35 / 1M | Per output token |
| Request fee | N/A | N/A | Per request |
| Image fee | N/A | N/A | Per image unit |
| Web search fee | N/A | N/A | Per search request |
Cost calculator
Estimate monthly spend from your own token volumes.
Estimated Total Cost
$0.12Calculated from current list pricing in the ModelsAtlas catalog.Capabilities
| Capability | Status | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Visual Understanding | Not advertised | Image and document analysis support |
| Audio Processing | Not advertised | Speech and voice aligned flows |
| Tool Calling | ✓ Supported | Supports tools / function calling |
| Self-Hosting | Not advertised | Deploy outside managed APIs |
Capability signals
Directional signals derived from model metadata and capability tags — not official benchmark submissions.
Quick start
Call Inception: Mercury 3 through an OpenAI-compatible client.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="inception/mercury-3",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum physics."}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Alternatives
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Sources & attribution
Pricing and metadata are maintained in the ModelsAtlas catalog.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Inception: Mercury 3 cost?
$0.10 per 1M input tokens and $0.35 per 1M output tokens on the official Inception API.
What is the context window of Inception: Mercury 3?
Inception: Mercury 3 supports up to 1M tokens of context.
Does Inception: Mercury 3 support tool / function calling?
Yes, Inception: Mercury 3 supports tool / function calling — you can register tools and the model will emit structured tool calls.
How do I access Inception: Mercury 3?
Use the official Inception API with the model id `inception/mercury-3`. See the Quick start section above for code examples.