inceptionListed Oct 16, 2026

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...

Context window1M
Max output131.1K
Provider endpoints2
Benchmark results0
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Input
$0.10
Output
$0.35
Cached input
$0.01
USD / 1M tokens
1M context131.1K max outputPrice source ↗Checked Oct 20, 2026
Endpoint IDinception/mercury-3

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Input
$0.10
Output
$0.35
Cached input
$0.01
USD / 1M tokens

Source discount 50%; rates as published

1M context131.1K max outputPrice source ↗Checked Oct 19, 2026
Endpoint IDinception/mercury-3::inception

Model specifications

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inception
Modality
Language
Context
1,000,000 tokens
Maximum output
131,072 tokens
Weights
Not reported
Provider listed
Oct 16, 2026
First discovered
Oct 19, 2026

Exact identities

  • openrouterinception/mercury-3

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Updated Oct 20, 2026

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