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Mercury 3
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...
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OpenRouter catalog date2026-10-16
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Find cheaper alternatives →| Endpoint / route | Model ID | Input | Cached | Output | Context | Source |
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| OpenRouterStandard | inception/mercury-3 | $0.1 | $0.01 | $0.35 | 1M | OpenRouter API ↗ |
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- Oct 20, 2026OpenRouter · Standard
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