Mercury 3
Mercury 3 is Inception’s most capable model for agentic workflows and real-time applications.
text → text · made by Inception Labs
Sold by 7 ways
| Seller | Lane | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Nous Research aggregator | standard | $0.1per Mtok in$0.35per Mtok out$0.01per Mtok cachedinference-api.nousresearch.com · read 2026-10-21 |
| OpenRouter 2 ways | $0.1per Mtok in$0.35per Mtok out$0.01per Mtok cached | |
| OpenRouter aggregator | standard | $0.1per Mtok in$0.35per Mtok out$0.01per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-10-20 |
| OpenRouter aggregator | inception | $0.1per Mtok in$0.35per Mtok out$0.01per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-10-21 |
| Venice AI aggregator | standard | $0.1per Mtok in$0.35per Mtok out$0.01per Mtok cachedmodels.dev · read 2026-10-31 |
| Vercel AI Gateway aggregator | standard | $0.1per Mtok in$0.35per Mtok out$0.01per Mtok cachedai-gateway.vercel.sh · read 2026-10-21 |
| nano-gpt 0 ways | $0.1per Mtok in$0.35per Mtok out$0.01per Mtok cached | |
| nano-gpt aggregatornot on the seller's list today | standard | $0.1per Mtok in$0.35per Mtok out$0.01per Mtok cachedmodels.dev · read 2026-10-20 |
| kilo 0 ways | $0.2per Mtok in$0.7per Mtok out$0.02per Mtok cached | |
| kilo aggregatornot on the seller's list today | standard | $0.2per Mtok in$0.7per Mtok out$0.02per Mtok cachedmodels.dev · read 2026-10-20 |
Measured 6 standings
| Place | Board | Metric | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 59thof 114 | Design Arena · svg (models) | Elo | 1178 |
| 68thof 162 | Design Arena · gamedev (models) | Elo | 1220 |
| 70thof 157 | Design Arena · uicomponent (models) | Elo | 1232 |
| 73rdof 163 | Design Arena · codecategories (models) | Elo | 1228 |
| 76thof 169 | Design Arena · website (models) | Elo | 1228 |
| 81stof 154 | Design Arena · dataviz (models) | Elo | 1203 |
About
Mercury 3 — a text model from Inception Labs, sold by 4 companies from $0.1 in and $0.35 out per million tokens, placed 68th of 162 on Design Arena · gamedev (models).
It takes text and returns text, with a context window of 1,000,000 tokens. It was published in October 2026. Its sellers say it can reason step by step and call a tool. The catalogue files it under chat. Four companies sell it. The cheapest is $0.1 in and $0.35 out per million tokens at Nous Research. Beside the standard rate there is a separately routed lane. It has been measured on 6 boards, and stands best at 68th of 162 on Design Arena · gamedev (models).
Every current figure
- Maker
- Inception Labs
- Register
- model
- Takes
- text
- Returns
- text
- Context
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Longest answer
- 131,072 tokens
- Published
- October 2026
- Licence
- not read
- Sellers
- 4
- Maker's own price
- not read
- Price
- $0.1 in and $0.35 out per million tokens — Nous Research
- Boards
- 6
- Best place
- 68th of 162 — Design Arena · gamedev (models)
Known as 1 name
inception/mercury-3