Mercury 3 pricing & price history
Mercury 3 by Inception costs $0.10 per 1M input tokens and $0.35 per 1M output tokens, with a 1M token context window.
Price history
No price changes since tracking began on 2026-10-19. We check every 10 minutes.
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About 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...
FAQ
How much does Mercury 3 cost?
Mercury 3 by Inception costs $0.10 per 1M input tokens and $0.35 per 1M output tokens, with a 1M token context window. A typical request with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens costs about $0.0004.
What is the context window of Mercury 3?
Mercury 3 supports up to 1,000,000 tokens of context and up to 131,072 output tokens per request.
Has Mercury 3’s price changed?
No price changes recorded since ModelBank started tracking it on 2026-10-19.
Is Mercury 3 being deprecated?
No retirement date has been announced for Mercury 3 as of 2026-10-31.
What are cheaper alternatives to Mercury 3?
Cheaper options include GLM 5.3 Flash ($0.0163/$0.14), DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 ($0.12/$0.24), Llama 4 Scout ($0.10/$0.30), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash ($0.045/$0.50).