# Mercury 3

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Compare Mercury 3 API pricing across 2 providers. Input from $0.10 per 1 million tokens, with output, cache, other published charges, speed and uptime.

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Last updated: 2026-10-20

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Inception · Listed Oct 19, 2026 · 2 providers

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Official pricing

$0.10 / $0.35

Input / Output · Inception

Lowest input

$0.10

Inception

Context

1M

## Mercury 3 · Specifications

| Availability / pricing | Mercury 3 |
| --- | --- |
| Reported product launch | 2026-10-19 · Official release · Inception |
| Preview predecessor | Mercury 2.5 |
| API model ID | mercury-3 |
| Input modalities | text |
| Output modalities | text |
| reasoning_effort takes effect | Yes |
| reasoning_effort | instant / low / medium / high |
| Official source · checked | 2026-10-20 |

[[1]](https://tokenpricing.co/inception/mercury-3#model-source-1)[[2]](https://tokenpricing.co/inception/mercury-3#model-source-2)

## Compare provider pricing

Compare provider pricing per 1 million tokens: input on the horizontal axis and output on the vertical axis. Dashed lines show official pricing. A point down and to the left is cheaper on both. Each grid step is a tenfold change.

## Base pricing

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Newest pricing check Oct 21, 2026.

| Provider | Input | Output | Cache read | Blend | Uptime |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Inception | $0.10 | $0.35 | $0.01 | $0.1288 | 100% |  |

## Provider pricing

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Amounts are in USD. Hover or tap an underlined amount to see the pricing calculation.

| Provider | Input | Output | Uptime | L1 | L2 | DR | Model ID |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 钱多多 API |  |  | 99.8% | 100% | — | 10 | inception/mercury-3 |  |

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## Questions about Mercury 3 pricing

## Sources & notes

- [1]

[2026-10-19 · Official release · Inception · Official source · checked](https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-3)Checked: 2026-10-20

- [2]

[Mercury 2.5](https://lmspeed.net/model/mercury-2-5)

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