Mercury 3

DIFFUSION FLAGSHIP

First diffusion LLM in the registry: Inception's Mercury 3 (Oct 19, 2026) generates tokens in parallel rather than left-to-right - 1,068 tokens/sec, sub-300ms time-to-first-token, outperforming GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 across benchmarks while running 4-8x faster; 1M context; launch price $0.10/$0.35 per 1M tokens (50% off the standard $0.20/$0.70), available via API, OpenRouter, Baseten, and Vercel.

Context

1,000,000 tokens

Architecture

Undisclosed (40x+ larger than Mercury 1)

Official API (1M)

$0.1 in / $0.35 out

License

Inception API

Quickstart

curl -s https://modelregistry.tirup.in/api/cli?model=mercury-3

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT API DOCS

BACK TO LEDGER

Sources

Diffusion at Scale: Introducing Mercury 3 · Inception Labs
Mercury 3 API documentation · Inception Labs
Mercury 3 listing and pricing · OpenRouter

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