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Inception
Mercury 3
proprietaryReleased Oct 19, 2026
Inception's diffusion-based language model for low-latency reasoning, coding, and tool-using agents, with a 1,000,000-token context. Current launch pricing is $0.10 input and $0.35 output per million tokens, with $0.01 cached input. Announced standard pricing is $0.20 input and $0.70 output; no end date for the launch discount is published.
ChatText completionFunction callingCode generationReasoningtext · code
Provider (1)
Sorted by total cost (input + output per 1M tokens). Select a row to view provider details.
| Provider | Pricing (per 1M) | Rate limits | Regions | Health | Latency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | In: $0.10Out: $0.35 | N/A RPM / N/A TPM | us-east-1 | Healthy | 0ms |
Quick start
Use this model via OpenRouter with an OpenAI-compatible SDK.
import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
baseURL: "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
apiKey: process.env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY,
});
const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "inception/mercury-3",
messages: [
{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }
],
});
console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);Using OpenRouter API · OpenAI-compatible SDK