Audience
Developers and product or engineering teams building conversational, voice-enabled, multimodal, search, browsing, tutoring, and agentic applications; enterprise teams can request dedicated capacity.
About Mercury 3
Mercury 3 is a hosted generative AI model from Inception for developers building interactive applications. It uses a diffusion-based approach to generate text in parallel and supports streaming responses, tool use, structured outputs, and multimodal input including text, images, and audio. Through the Inception API, teams can use it for conversational assistants, voice applications, search and browsing workflows, tutoring, and other agentic tasks that benefit from responsive generation. The model is available through Inception’s API and named inference partners, with OpenAI-compatible API access for existing applications. Developers can evaluate output quality and latency, then integrate the model into their software using the documented API and SDK ecosystem. Usage is token-metered, with a free allocation and paid input/output token rates; enterprise options include dedicated capacity and support.
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Pricing
Starting Price:
$0.10/1M input tokens
Pricing Details:
Launch pricing is $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.35 per million output tokens, 50% below standard rates of $0.20 and $0.70. A free allocation of 100 million tokens is available. Usage is token-metered; enterprise deployments offer dedicated capacity and priority support.
Free Version:
Free Version available.
Company Information
Inception
Founded: 2024
United States
www.inceptionlabs.ai/models
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Mercury 3 Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What kinds of users and organization types does Mercury 3 work with?
Mercury 3 works with these users and organization types: Enterprise.
Q: What languages does Mercury 3 support in their product?
Mercury 3 supports these languages: English.
Q: What other applications or services does Mercury 3 integrate with?
Mercury 3 integrates with: Vercel AI Gateway, Amazon Bedrock, Microsoft Foundry, Baseten, OpenAI, and OpenRouter.
Q: Does Mercury 3 have an API?
Yes, Mercury 3 has an API.
Q: What type of training does Mercury 3 provide?
Mercury 3 provides training in the form of documentation.
Q: How much does Mercury 3 cost?
Pricing for Mercury 3 starts at $0.10/1M input tokens.
