Mercury 3

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inception/mercury-3-20261019

Inception: Mercury 3 is a text-to-text model with a context length of 1,000,000 tokens. It supports tool use and reasoning, and is not an open-weight model. Pricing is $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.35 per million output tokens.

Tracked, but not yet independently ranked

This model is in the catalog, but we do not yet have enough public benchmark data to place it confidently in quality-focused recommendations. It may still appear in price-based recommendations.

  • tool use
  • structured outputs
  • reasoning

At a glance

providerinception
releasedOct 16, 2026
context1M
input / M$0.100

Specifications

What the API gives you

Context window
1M tokens
Max output
131K tokens
Input price
$0.100 / 1M tokens
Output price
$0.35 / 1M tokens
Cache read
$0.010 / 1M tokens
Modalities
text → text
Knowledge cutoff
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Released
Oct 16, 2026

Benchmarks

No independent benchmark results are linked to this model yet. We keep it visible while withholding quality claims until usable results arrive.

Task evidence

How broad is the support?

Each status is exact to this model version and the selected task. Official release claims remain provisional.

No exact-version task evidence is linked yet. Official release claims will appear provisionally; independent results are required for established status.

Recommendation coverage

Where this model appears

Not currently included in a published recommendation. The task evidence panel above says exactly what is confirmed and what is still missing.

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