Inception: Mercury 3
Inception
Inception: Mercury 3 by Inception costs $0.10 per 1M input tokens and $0.35 per 1M output tokens, with a 1M-token context window.
Pricing
Input (per 1M tokens)
$0.10
Output (per 1M tokens)
$0.35
Cached input (per 1M)
$0.01
Specifications
- Provider
- Inception
- Context window
- 1M tokens
- Parameters
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- Released
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- Open weights
- —
- Frontier model
- No
Speed & latency
Time to first token
0.51s
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FAQ
How much does Inception: Mercury 3 cost?
Inception: Mercury 3 is priced at $0.10 per 1M input tokens and $0.35 per 1M output tokens. Output tokens cost more than input.
What is Inception: Mercury 3's context window?
Inception: Mercury 3 supports a context window of 1M tokens — the maximum prompt plus response length it can handle in a single request.
Is Inception: Mercury 3 open weight?
Open-weight status for Inception: Mercury 3 is not recorded in our dataset.
Data as of 2026-10-20. Source: Pricing via OpenRouter API, openrouter.ai. Pricing is per 1M tokens (USD); confirm with the provider before production use.