Mercury 3 pricing.
Prices checked
Mercury 3 costs $0.10 in and $0.35 out per million tokens from Inception; the cheapest price is $0.16 at OpenRouter, checked .
Inception's own price
Inception
$0.10 in · $0.35 out
82% below the typical price of the 399 text models we track.
Cheapest price
OpenRouter
$0.10 in · $0.35 out
Nobody sells it for less than Inception with a reason we can point at.
Every provider selling Mercury 3
- 1
$0.10 in · $0.01 out
$0.08/M tokens - 2
$0.10 in · $0.35 out
$0.16/M tokens - 3
$0.10 in · $0.35 out
$0.16/M tokens - 4
$0.10 in · $0.35 out
$0.16/M tokens - 5
$0.10 in · $0.35 out
$0.16/M tokens - 6
$0.10 in · $0.35 out
$0.16/M tokens - 7
$0.10 in · $0.35 out
$0.16/M tokens - 8
$0.11 in · $0.37 out
$0.17/M tokens - 9
$0.20 in · $0.70 out
$0.33/M tokens
What it costs for your work
A month at Inception's own price
A month at OpenRouter, the cheapest
What you save
A page is about 600 tokens in and 60 out, a support reply 200 in and 300 out, an email 150 in and 250 out. Nothing else is counted: no cache discount, no batch rate, no free tier.
How we count
Prices are per million tokens. The big number on each row is blended 3 in : 1 out, the way most work uses a model. A price below Inception's own is listed as cheapest only when the provider says why.
- Same as maker
- Sold by someone else at the price the maker charges.
- Maker's price
- What the lab that trained the model charges on its own API. Every other row is measured against it.
- Costs more
- Sold by someone else for more than the maker charges.
Similar models
Models from other labs that do what Mercury 3 does, cheapest first. Each percentage is against Mercury 3's cheapest price, $0.16 per M tokens.
MiMo-V2.5
1M context · 30 providers
OpenRouter$0.15/M tokens8% lessQwen3.8 Flash
1M context · 37 providers
Alibaba Cloud (China)$0.19/M tokens16% moreClaude Haiku 5.5
1M context · 40 providers
OpenRouter$0.20/M tokens23% moreGemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
1M context · 37 providers
Kilo Gateway$0.28/M tokens73% more
Frequently asked
- Who sells Mercury 3 cheapest?
- No provider sells Mercury 3 below Inception's own price for a reason it publishes. 9 providers sell it at that price or above, and every one of them is on this page.
- Is Mercury 3 open weights?
- No. Inception keeps the weights, so every price on this page is Inception's own or a resale of it. A price below Inception's here needs a published reason, or it is listed and not ranked.
- How much context does Mercury 3 hold?
- 1,000,000 tokens in one call, which is about 1M, and it can call your own functions.
- How does Mercury 3 compare with the rest of the market?
- At $0.16 per million tokens, Inception's own price is 82% below the typical $0.89 across the 399 text models we track.
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