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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...
How much does Inception: Mercury 3 cost for a real workload?
At 10M input + 2M output tokens per month, Inception: Mercury 3 costs about $1.7 ($1 input + $0.7 output). Try your own volumes in the cost calculator.
What are cheaper alternatives to Inception: Mercury 3?
- Google: Gemma 3 27B — $0.08 in / $0.35 out per 1M
- DeepSeek: DeepSeek Flash Latest — $0.049 in / $0.375 out per 1M
- Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash — $0.14 in / $0.28 out per 1M
- Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct — $0.1 in / $0.32 out per 1M
- NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety — $0.2 in / $0.2 out per 1M
- StepFun: Step 3.5 Flash — $0.1 in / $0.3 out per 1M
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Frequently asked questions
How much does Inception: Mercury 3 cost?
Inception: Mercury 3 costs $0.1 per 1M input tokens and $0.35 per 1M output tokens (list price, snapshot October 21, 2026). At 10M input + 2M output tokens per month that is about $1.7.
What is the context window of Inception: Mercury 3?
Inception: Mercury 3 has a context window of 1,000,000 tokens and can return up to 131,072 output tokens per response.
What are cheaper alternatives to Inception: Mercury 3?
Cheaper models include Google: Gemma 3 27B ($0.08 in / $0.35 out), DeepSeek: DeepSeek Flash Latest ($0.049 in / $0.375 out), Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash ($0.14 in / $0.28 out). See the full list on this page.
Is Inception: Mercury 3 free to use?
No. Inception: Mercury 3 is a paid model at $0.1 input / $0.35 output per 1M tokens. 20 free models are listed on the free models page.
Provider: inception · Model ID: inception/mercury-3 · Modality: text->text · Price snapshot October 21, 2026, refreshed daily. How we collect prices