Inception
Mercury 3
Released 2026-10-16
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...
You send / 1M
$0.100
tokens in
It replies / 1M
$0.350
tokens out
Memory
1M
tokens it can read at once
Typical request
$0.0003
1,000 words in, 400 out
Data privacy
No training or retention: Yes. At least one provider serves it with zero data retention.
| Provider | You send / 1M | It replies / 1M | Uptime | Privacy policy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inception | $0.100 | $0.350 | 100% | Read |
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What it can do
- Reads: text
- Writes: text
- Reasoning: Yes
- Tool calling: Yes
- Longest reply: 131K tokens
- Repeated text is billed at $0.010 per 1M (prompt caching)
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