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Mercury 3

Released at: October 16, 2026

API StatusAvailable for integration
Context Window1,000,000 tokens(heuristic estimate)
Input Price / MTok$0.10(heuristic estimate)
Output Price / MTok$0.35(heuristic estimate)

Model Overview

Inception AI · Active Model

  • Long-Context
  • API Available
  • Reported Benchmarks

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...

Developer
Inception AI(heuristic estimate)
Release Date
October 16, 2026(heuristic estimate)
Context Window
1,000,000 tokens≈ 1,333 words(heuristic estimate)
API Access
Publicly AvailableIntegrate via official API(heuristic estimate)
Input Cost
$0.10per million tokens(heuristic estimate)
Output Cost
$0.35per million tokens(heuristic estimate)
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Reported Benchmarks

MMLU(estimated)Score: 79.4% (Top 65%)
HumanEval(estimated)Score: 77.6% (Top 66%)
MATH(estimated)Score: 54.8% (Top 62%)
MT-Bench(estimated)Score: 8.5 (Top 56%)
GPQA(estimated)Score: 40.2% (Top 53%)
HellaSwag(estimated)Score: 82.4% (Top 49%)

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