Inception Labs / inception/mercury-3
Mercury 3 - access through LLMTR
Mercury 3 is Inception Labs' diffusion language model (dLLM): it generates several tokens in parallel and refines them, for low-latency agents, voice and high-volume automation. It has a 1,000,000-token context window and a single response can be at most 131,072 tokens. It supports tool calling and schema-enforced JSON output via `response_format`, and accepts text only. Repeated prompt prefixes can be served from a prompt cache at one tenth of the input rate. It reasons by default at the `low` level and reasoning tokens bill as output; the levels are `:minimal`, `:low`, `:medium` and `:high`, and `:minimal` gives the lowest latency. The introductory price applies until the end of 25 October 2026 (TRT); from 26 October 2026 the standard rate applies.
Technical specifications
| Canonical ID | inception/mercury-3 |
|---|---|
| Provider | Inception Labs |
| Context window | 1,000,000 tokens |
| Operations | CHAT_COMPLETIONS |
| Modalities | text |
Pricing
An 8% platform margin applies to credit top-ups; model usage prices are not separately marked up.
| Operation | Metric | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAT_COMPLETIONS | INPUT_TEXT | PER_1M_TOKENS | $0.100000 |
| CHAT_COMPLETIONS | CACHE_READ | PER_1M_TOKENS | $0.010000 |
| CHAT_COMPLETIONS | OUTPUT_TEXT | PER_1M_TOKENS | $0.350000 |
Example usage
With existing OpenAI SDK flows, change only the base URL and model identifier.
curl https://llmtr.com/v1/chat/completions -H "Authorization: Bearer llmtr-your_key" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"model":"inception/mercury-3","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'
Guides about this model
- Mercury 3 vs Mercury 2.5 Preview vs Mercury 2 - All three Mercury models are called on LLMTR with the same API key on /v1/chat/completions. Mercury 3 has a 1,000,000-token window and a 131,072-token output limit; its per-token price is above Mercury 2.5 Preview's and below Mercury 2's. Mercury 2.5 Preview is a preview release and the only Mercury row that can turn reasoning off with none.
- Mercury 3 vs Claude Haiku 5.5, GPT-6 Luna, Gemini 3.8 Flash - On LLMTR all four models are called with the same API key on /v1/chat/completions. Mercury 3 accepts text only; at its introductory price through 25 October 2026 it matches Haiku 5.5 and GPT-6 Luna on input and is below them on output, and from 26 October Haiku and Luna cost less on short prompts. For images, PDF, audio and video the other three models come first.
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