Add as a preferred source on GoogleInception Launches Mercury 3 With One-Million-Token Context Window
Standard pricing is $0.20 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens, with introductory rates set at half those amounts.
Inception launched Mercury 3 on Oct. 19, giving developers a diffusion-based language model with a one-million-token context window and access through four distribution channels.
A context window determines how much text a model can consider in a request. Mercury 3's standard price is $0.20 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens. Introductory rates cut those prices in half, to $0.10 and $0.35, respectively. Input tokens are text sent to the model; output tokens are text it generates.
In company-run release tests, Mercury 3 generated 1,068 tokens per second on NVIDIA GPUs. It also scored ahead of GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 on multiple benchmarks in those tests. The comparisons describe the release tests rather than performance on every task.
Developers can access Mercury 3 through Inception's API, OpenRouter, Baseten and Vercel. The model is compatible with the OpenAI API, allowing applications built around that interface to use it.
Simon Yoon
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