{
  "site": "Agentic Weekly",
  "dataset": "Agentic Weekly model facts",
  "as_of": "2026-10-26",
  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
  },
  "attribution": "Data: Agentic Weekly (https://theagenticweekly.com), CC BY 4.0",
  "page": "https://theagenticweekly.com/models",
  "evidence_labels": {
    "Reported": "Read from the cited vendor page on the as-of date; not run by us.",
    "Tested": "We ran it ourselves; scope is stated in tested_note. No model is Tested yet."
  },
  "model": {
    "slug": "mercury-3",
    "name": "Mercury 3",
    "vendor": "Inception",
    "family": "Mercury",
    "category": "llm",
    "status": "generally-available",
    "groups": [
      "small-fast",
      "agents"
    ],
    "short_answer": "Mercury 3 is Inception's latest language model in our dataset, released Oct 19, 2026. Proprietary, API access only. Inception's diffusion-based language model with a 1M-token context, launched Oct 19, 2026 and billed at launch for half its list price. Verified against vendor sources on Oct 26, 2026.",
    "summary": "Inception's diffusion-based language model with a 1M-token context, launched Oct 19, 2026 and billed at launch for half its list price.",
    "release_date": "2026-10-19",
    "latest_update": null,
    "api_id": null,
    "context_tokens": 1000000,
    "max_output_tokens": null,
    "input_modalities": null,
    "output_modalities": null,
    "parameters": null,
    "license": "Proprietary (API)",
    "open_weights": false,
    "pricing": {
      "currency": "USD",
      "unit": "per 1M tokens",
      "input": 0.1,
      "output": 0.35,
      "text": "$0.1 in / $0.35 out per 1M tokens"
    },
    "evidence": "Reported",
    "tested_note": null,
    "last_verified": "2026-10-26",
    "is_stale": false,
    "facts": {
      "release_date": {
        "value": "2026-10-19",
        "source_url": "https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-3",
        "as_of": "2026-10-26",
        "evidence": "Reported",
        "note": "Blog post dated Oct 19, 2026; early-access partners had it earlier."
      },
      "context_tokens": {
        "value": 1000000,
        "source_url": "https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-3",
        "as_of": "2026-10-26",
        "evidence": "Reported",
        "note": "Stated as 1M tokens, up from 260K for Mercury 2.5."
      },
      "license": {
        "value": {
          "type": "proprietary",
          "name": "Proprietary (API)",
          "openWeights": false
        },
        "source_url": "https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-3",
        "as_of": "2026-10-26",
        "evidence": "Reported",
        "note": "Available through the Inception API Platform, OpenRouter, Baseten and Vercel; no weights are offered."
      },
      "pricing": {
        "value": {
          "currency": "USD",
          "unit": "per 1M tokens",
          "input": 0.1,
          "output": 0.35
        },
        "source_url": "https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-3",
        "as_of": "2026-10-26",
        "evidence": "Reported",
        "note": "Launch price, 50% off the list price of $0.20 input and $0.70 output. Cached tokens are 90% off the input price."
      }
    },
    "vendor_claims": [
      "Inception says Mercury 3 outperforms GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 on its benchmarks while running 4-8x faster at 1,068 tokens per second on NVIDIA GPUs. These are vendor claims."
    ],
    "notes": [],
    "not_verified": [
      "Parameter count was not disclosed.",
      "Launch pricing has no stated end date.",
      "OpenRouter's listing shows Oct 16, 2026 (early access); we use Inception's own Oct 19 launch date."
    ],
    "sources": [
      {
        "label": "Inception blog: Introducing Mercury 3",
        "url": "https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-3"
      }
    ],
    "url": "https://theagenticweekly.com/models/mercury-3",
    "markdown": "https://theagenticweekly.com/models/mercury-3.md",
    "api": "https://theagenticweekly.com/api/models/mercury-3"
  }
}