Mercury Pricing (2026)
Mercury starts at $0.10. Mercury is Inception's family of diffusion large language models, served through an OpenAI-compatible API. Mercury 3, launched in October 2026, is the company's flagship reasoning model with a 1M-token context.
Plans listed by the maker
As published on the Mercury listing. Amounts are shown as written; check the maker's site for taxes, regional pricing and current promotions.
| Starter plan | Mercury 3 - $0.20 input / $0.70 output per 1M tokens (launch: 50% off, $0.10 / $0.35); cached input 90% off |
| Second plan | Mercury Voice - $0.20 input / $0.75 output per 1M tokens (launch-discount price shown on site) |
| Third plan | Enterprise - contact sales - dedicated capacity, fine-tuning, private deployment, custom SLAs |
How it compares
Across the 21 AI Tools & Platforms tools on TechLogHub, 57% offer a free tier and the median published entry price is $0.10. Mercury is at the category median. Directory-wide, 53% of tools have a free tier and the median entry plan is $12.
Medians come from the TechLogHub pricing report, recomputed daily.
What similar tools charge
Ranked by similarity to Mercury (shared use cases, audience and stack), showing each tool's listed entry point.
| Tool | Free tier | Entry price | Plans |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jev | $0.04 | Usage-based - $42 per billion input tokens ($0.042 per million); output tokens free · Enterprise - contact sales | |
| fal | $0.00 | Model APIs - usage-based per output, e.g. $0.003/megapixel (FLUX.1 schnell), $0.15/image (Nano Banana Pro), $0.03-$0.14/sec for video models · Serverless & Compute - hourly GPUs, e.g. H100 $4.50/h (as low as $2.49), H200 $6.00/h, B200 $7.99/h, B300 $12.99/h · Enterprise - usage-based or reserved pricing, SOC 2, SSO, private deployments; contact sales | |
| Voxtral | $0.00 | Transcription - $0.004/min (Small Transcribe 3), $0.0035/min (Mini Transcribe 3) · Realtime transcription - $0.008/min (Mini Transcribe Realtime 3) · Text-to-speech - $13 per 1M characters (Mini TTS 3) | |
| Inferock | — | Watch - Free - quality, latency, cost and failed-call visibility on your own provider keys; monthly report · Serve - pay per token - supplier cost plus 10% service fee, prepaid; service credits for eligible failures · Dedicated - by agreement - reserved GPU capacity, price and SLA set per quote | |
| shim-cli | $0 | shim-cli - Free, open source (Apache-2.0), no account · AI Gateway Developer - $0 - 1M tokens and 1,000 requests per month · Enterprise - contact sales - audit, budgets, roles, custom deployment | |
| CosVoice | $29 | Free trial · $29/mo · $149/mo |
Mercury pricing FAQ
Quick answers about Mercury's plans, free tier and billing
Does Mercury have a free plan?
Mercury does not list a free tier. The lowest published price is $0.10.
How much does Mercury cost?
Mercury starts at $0.10. The maker lists these plans: Mercury 3 - $0.20 input / $0.70 output per 1M tokens (launch: 50% off, $0.10 / $0.35); cached input 90% off, Mercury Voice - $0.20 input / $0.75 output per 1M tokens (launch-discount price shown on site), Enterprise - contact sales - dedicated capacity, fine-tuning, private deployment, custom SLAs. An enterprise plan is also mentioned.
How does Mercury pricing compare with other AI Tools & Platforms tools?
Across the 21 AI Tools & Platforms tools on TechLogHub, 57% offer a free tier and the median published entry price is $0.10 per month. Mercury is $0.10, equal to the category median.
What are cheaper alternatives to Mercury?
Jev (from $0.04), fal (from $0.00), Voxtral (from $0.00), Inferock (free tier) are similar AI Tools & Platforms tools listed on TechLogHub with a lower or free entry point.
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