Mercury

Other chatreasoningtool_use

API ID: inception/mercury

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Input Price
$0.25
/1M tokens
Output Price
$1.00
/1M tokens

About Mercury

Mercury is Inception's language model, delivering strong performance on general AI tasks. The model excels at conversation, content generation, and analysis. Mercury variants include coding-specialized versions for development tasks. The series demonstrates Inception's advancement in language model development. For developers seeking capable AI from Inception, Mercury offers reliable performance.

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Price Ranking
#430 lowest price among 599 Chat models

Model Specifications

Context Length
128k
Max Output
16k
Release Date
2025-06-26
Capabilities
chat reasoning tool_use
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Complex reasoning, math problems, multi-step logic
  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

Consider Alternatives For

  • Image understanding (needs vision capability)
  • Simple Q&A (cheaper models available)

💰 Real-World Cost Examples

Estimated monthly costs for common use cases

Personal AI Assistant
$0.41
/month
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/month
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Data Analysis Pipeline
$17.63
/month
500 analyses/day, ~2k tokens each
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🚀 Quick Start

Get started with Mercury API

OpenAI-compatible SDK 
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.provider.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="inception/mercury",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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