MODEL PROOF
Mercury 3
NO LMARENA GENERAL SCORE
No LMArena general score is attached to this listing.
- Independent LMArena score
- No LMArena general score
- Context window
- 1M
- Maximum output
- 131.07K
- Input modalities
- text
- Output modalities
- text
- Published input price
- $0.200 / 1M tokens
- Published output price
- $0.700 / 1M tokens
- Pricing kind
- fixed
Inspect complete billing conditions and endpoint terms below.
Price from Inception: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery, with at least 90% of the reference context and at the maker’s precision or better, at its standard rate.
Cheaper right now: $0.100 in · $0.350 out per million tokens at Inception, a promotion of 50%. The price on this page is Inception’s standard rate: the ranking uses the standard rate, never a promotion.
Every price dimension · USD per million tokens
| Input | $0.200/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $0.700/M |
| Cached input | $0.020/M |
| Cache write | Unknown/M |
| Cache write 1h | Unknown/M |
| Reasoning | Unknown/M |
Who sells it
The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.
1 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions
Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.
| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inceptioninception Endpoint terms
| $0.100 | $0.350 | undeclared | 100.00% |
Independent scores
No independent benchmark has measured this model. Unrated is not a score of zero.
Best rankings by task
- UI components #34 1268
- Code categories #47 1236
- Game development #49 1215
- Websites #50 1241
Per-task Elo and rank from Design Arena, via OpenRouter’s model feed. The rank is the feed’s, and it counts models OpenRouter does not list.
Capability
| Context window | 1M |
|---|---|
| Max output | 131K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Open weights | Unknown |
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-10-21 |
| Quality data | unrated |
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...
Questions this page answers
What does Mercury 3 cost?
$0.200/M in, $0.700/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.
Does Mercury 3 have an independent quality score?
Mercury 3 has no LMArena general score in this catalogue. Unrated is not a score of zero.
What beats Mercury 3?
Mercury 3 has no LMArena general score. Unrated is not a score of zero.
Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Mercury 3?
No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.
Does a missing score mean Mercury 3 scored zero?
Unrated is not a score of zero.
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