Inception Labs·#167 of 352 on the current board·cheaper than #163 Command A
Mercury 3 is a language model from Inception Labs. It ranks #167 of 352 on ModelCap's current board, with an Index score of 39.3, modeled from its measured predecessor. Its score range of 25.6–53.0 spans positions #111–#257. It is listed at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.35 per million output tokens from one provider. It reads up to 1M tokens of context, with no downloadable weights linked in the current source data.
Figures as of 6 Nov 2026, 20:32 UTC · download the public dataset · methodology
No general-family board lists this model yet. Its point estimate is the precision-weighted mean of every channel that spoke for it; each channel’s share is the weight it carried. Independent measurements replace this placement as boards list the model.
BES normalizes admitted public benchmark evidence for measured Index rows. Its legacy score and observables prior do not define the public language rank.
These adoption and deployment observations remain context only. They do not change this model's ModelCap Index score or rank.
The bounded 0–100 capability score blends each source’s competitive placement with its published achievement, then combines capability families. Evidence breadth adds a modest uncertainty adjustment; price and popularity are not part of benchmark-led rank.
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insufficient-artifact-metadata. This layer predicts from admitted evidence and safe metadata only. It never enters ModelCap Score or rank.
Not yet published: a pinned repository revision, the architecture and model type, a parameter count, safetensors weight metadata, the base model it derives from, a declared licence, a link to the licence terms, admitted benchmark results, results across several capability areas, results from more than one source, a confident match to its benchmark entries, pinned evaluation dataset versions.
A metadata completeness and deployability index—not a safety certification, quality grade, or production-readiness claim.
Market Gravity uses OpenRouter’s full-catalogue popularity order. Sparse Vercel top-ten observations appear only when published and do not affect the score.
This model is visible because it is available in the live catalogue, but it has no trustworthy community result yet. ModelCap does not infer a quality score from price, features, or market activity.
OpenRouter weekly popularity across the full model catalogue.
Independent providers versus the model's open or closed cohort, weighted by uptime.
Hugging Face 30-day downloads for open models; neutral for closed models.
Time since first public availability, on a six-month half-life.
inception/mercury-3OpenRouter catalogue or provider-endpoint declaration. Limits can vary by provider and prompt length; a model-wide maximum has not been independently verified. OpenRouter metadata
Models within 3 places of #167 on the ModelCap Index.
Index score within 3 points of, or above, this model's, with a lower listed blended price (3:1 input:output).
Mercury 3 holds ModelCap Index position #167 of 352 ranked language models as of 6 November 2026, with an Index score of 39.3 (interval 25.6–53.0); evidence: modeled · succession. The Index combines public benchmark boards with published uncertainty; the methodology page explains the weighting.
Mercury 3 is listed at $0.10 per 1M input tokens and $0.35 per 1M output tokens as of 6 November 2026. Prices come from the OpenRouter catalogue and re-observe on every refresh. For 1,000 requests using 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each, the listed rates imply $0.375 total (2M input + 0.5M output). This excludes caching, batch discounts, prompt-length tiers, tool charges and retries; verify the chosen endpoint's rate and limits before budgeting.
Mercury 3 has a published context window of 1M tokens (1,000,000). The snapshot lists a 131,072 token catalogue-declared route output cap. OpenRouter catalogue or provider-endpoint declaration. Limits can vary by provider and prompt length; a model-wide maximum has not been independently verified. The providers table lists each endpoint's context limit.
No linked weights. No downloadable model weights are linked in the current source data. This does not identify every API or chat product that offers the model.
One provider serves Mercury 3 through OpenRouter as of 6 November 2026: Inception. Each provider's price, context limit, quantization and measured uptime are in the providers table above.
Mercury 3's Index position rests on the evidence listed on this page; it has no result on the public boards ModelCap tracks as separate leaderboards as of 6 November 2026. The evidence panel names each source and its publication date.
Mercury 3 first appeared in the catalogue on 16 Oct 2026. It is the current version in its family. Rank and price movements since then are recorded on the site's changes feed.