Mercury Coder

Other chatreasoningtool_usecode

API ID: inception/mercury-coder-small-beta

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

About Mercury Coder

Mercury Coder is Inception's specialized coding model, optimized for software development tasks. The model excels at code generation, completion, and explanation across programming languages. Mercury Coder demonstrates strong performance on coding benchmarks. For developers seeking capable coding AI, Mercury Coder offers focused development assistance.

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Price Ranking
#430 lowest price among 599 Chat models

Model Specifications

Context Length
128k
Max Output
16k
Release Date
2025-04-30
Capabilities
chat reasoning tool_use code
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Complex reasoning, math problems, multi-step logic
  • Code generation, debugging, code review, refactoring
  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

Consider Alternatives For

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

๐Ÿ’ฐ Real-World Cost Examples

Estimated monthly costs for common use cases

Personal AI Assistant
$0.41
/month
50 conversations/day, ~500 tokens each
Code Copilot
$3.60
/month
200 completions/day, ~1k tokens each
Customer Service Bot
$12.75
/month
1000 tickets/day, ~800 tokens each
Data Analysis Pipeline
$17.63
/month
500 analyses/day, ~2k tokens each

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๐Ÿš€ Quick Start

Get started with Mercury Coder 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-coder-small-beta",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)