per 1M tokens
Inception: Mercury 3
inception/mercury-3
Price
per 1M tokens
Providers
Each row is one seller. Prices are the published rate from that source. A dash means that source did not publish the amount. Sorted by a 3:1 blend of input and output.
Monthly bill
Token models use the token counts. Image, video, and audio models use units times the flat rate.
$0.45 at list price for this workload
Cache
per 1M tokens
Every rate
| Unit | Input | Output | Flat | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| token | $0.1/1M | $0.35/1M | Not published— | official |
Price history
input or flat output
Daily snapshots
| UTC date | Unit | Input | Output | Flat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-19 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-20 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-21 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-22 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-23 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-24 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-25 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-26 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-27 | token | $0.1 | $0.35 | Not published— |
| 2026-10-28 | token | $0.1 | $0.35 | Not published— |
| 2026-10-29 | token | $0.1 | $0.35 | Not published— |
| 2026-10-30 | token | $0.1 | $0.35 | Not published— |
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Call this model
OpenRouter id inception/mercury-3. InferenceList does not send the request.
curl
curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"inception/mercury-3","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'
JavaScript
await fetch("https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions", {
method: "POST",
headers: {
Authorization: "Bearer " + process.env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY,
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({
model: "inception/mercury-3",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
}),
});
Python
import os, json, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions",
data=json.dumps({"model": "inception/mercury-3", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]}).encode(),
headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + os.environ["OPENROUTER_API_KEY"], "Content-Type": "application/json"},
)
print(urllib.request.urlopen(req).read().decode())