Mercury 3 Benchmarks, Pricing & Rankings
Inception Labs · 2026-10-16 · Closed · Current
Snapshot 2026-11-06 · updated weekly
Mercury 3 ranks #70 of 71 on the AMR leaderboard.
Mercury 3 benchmark scores
Mercury 3 price, speed & context
Input price
$0.10
per 1M tokens
Inception rate card · 2026-10-28
Output price
$0.35
per 1M tokens
Speed
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tok/s
Context
1M
tokens
About Mercury 3
Mercury 3 is Inception’s diffusion-based language model and its most capable to date, aimed at agentic workflows and latency-sensitive real-time applications. OpenRouter listed it October 16 at $0.10/$0.35 per million tokens with a 1M context; leaderboards have not scored it yet (Mercury 2.5 sits at index 12), so its AMR score stays unranked pending first evaluations.
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Mercury 3 FAQ
Where does Mercury 3 rank?
Mercury 3 ranks #70 of 71 tracked AI models on the AMR aggregate as of October 2026, with an aggregate score of 0.0. Its strongest dimension is AMR at 0.0.
How much does Mercury 3 cost?
Mercury 3 costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.35 per million output tokens on the standard API. At a typical 1:3 input/output agent workload, that blends to roughly $0.29 per million tokens.
What is the Mercury 3 context window?
Mercury 3 supports a 1M token context window and generates at a median 0 output tokens per second. That context fits roughly 667 standard documents in a single prompt.
Is Mercury 3 open source?
No — Mercury 3 is a closed model available only through Inception Labs’s official API and authorized cloud partners.
What is better than Mercury 3?
GPT-6 Cyber ranks one place higher at #69 with an AMR score of 0.0. Mercury 3 still wins 0 of the tracked dimensions head-to-head — check the comparison table to see exactly which.