inception
Mercury 3
Use an endpoint supported by this model.
Get a key for this setup →const response = await fetch('https://api.minirouter.sh/v1/chat/completions', { method: 'POST', headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.MINIROUTER_KEY}`, 'Content-Type': 'application/json', }, body: JSON.stringify({ model: 'inception/mercury-3', messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Why is the sky blue?' }], max_tokens: 1024, }),}) const data = await response.json()console.log(data.choices[0].message.content)- Input / 1M
- $0.105
- Output / 1M
- $0.3675
- Context
- 1M
- Max output
- 131K
Overview
Overview
Mercury 3 is Inception’s most capable model for agentic workflows and real-time applications. It is one of the world’s fastest models, powered by diffusion. MiniRouter supports text input only.
- Model type
- language
- Context window
- 1,000,000
- Maximum output
- 131,072
- Input / 1M tokens
- $0.105
- Output / 1M tokens
- $0.3675
- Released
- 2026-10-19
Prices include the MiniRouter fee. Compatibility snapshot: 2026-08-06. Input: text. Output: text.
Endpoints
Endpoints
Platform-funded routing only. Caller BYOK credentials and OIDC-based upstream authentication are intentionally excluded; authenticate with a MiniRouter bearer key.
Paths
/v1/chat/completions/v1/messages/v1/responsesStructured output
Not enforced; a requested format is dropped and the answer is plain text. How it works
Captured parameters: max_tokens, temperature, stop, tools, tool_choice, reasoning, include_reasoning.
API
API
Switch between Chat Completions, Messages and client configurations in the setup panel. Every snippet keeps the model ID unchanged.
Base URL
https://api.minirouter.sh/v1Model ID
inception/mercury-3Providers
Providers
MiniRouter selects from the configured routes below. Priority is the catalog order, not a latency or availability score.
| Provider | Priority | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Parameters | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
vercel | 1 | $0.105 | $0.3675 | max_tokens, temperature, stop, tools, tool_choice, reasoning, include_reasoning | MiniRouter balance |