Bollcoin reported on October 20 that, according to an official announcement from Inception, the company has released the diffusion-based large language model Mercury 3, supporting a 1 million token context. The company stated that its generation speed on NVIDIA GPUs reaches 1,068 tokens per second, outperforming GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 on multiple benchmarks. Standard pricing is $0.20 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens, with half-price during the launch period. The model is available through the Inception API, OpenRouter, Baseten, and Vercel, and is compatible with the OpenAI API.