Mercury 3 now available on AI Gateway
Inception's Mercury 3 model is now available on Vercel's AI Gateway with 50% launch pricing and generation speeds exceeding 1,000 tokens per second. The model enables parallel text refinement with a 1M-token context window, ideal for real-time applications like browser agents and customer support.
is now available on AI Gateway with 50% off launch pricing. Inception reports strong results across a range of benchmarks, with generation speeds above 1,000 tokens per second.Mercury 3 from Inception
Mercury 3 uses diffusion to generate text through parallel refinement. It brings improved reasoning to latency-sensitive workloads such as browser agents, real-time search, interactive education, and customer support. A 1M-token context window gives those applications room for long documents and extended conversation histories.
Set in your environment. Use as the model name:AI_GATEWAY_API_KEYinception/mercury-3
To use it in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and more, install the latest Vercel CLI and run setup:
Then select in the agent. See the for details.inception/mercury-3coding agents guide
Try Mercury 3 in the .model playground
AI Gateway provides a unified API for calling models, tracking usage and cost, and configuring retries, failover, and performance optimizations for higher-than-provider uptime. It includes built-in , , , , and more.custom reportingZero Data Retention supportbudgets for API keysrouting rules
AI Gateway reflects provider pricing with no markup and does not charge a platform fee on inference, including on (BYOK) requests.Bring Your Own Key
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