Inception Labs Launches Mercury 3 With 100M Free API Tokens

100M free Mercury 3 API tokens on Inception platform and OpenRouter
One-time grant per account; 50% launch pricing at $0.10/M in, $0.35/M out

Oct 20, 2026, 2:04 PM · Inception Labs Blog

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The diffusion-model lab's newest release ships with a one-time token grant and a 1M context window.

Mercury 3 is Inception Labs' newest diffusion language model family — Mercury, Mercury Voice, and Mercury Decide — with a 1M token context window (up from 260K on Mercury 2.5) and speeds over 1,000 tokens per second on NVIDIA GPUs. The company claims it outperforms GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5.

The catch: 100M tokens are a one-time grant per account; no recurring free tier. Standard pricing is $0.20/M input and $0.70/M output, with a 50% launch promo at $0.10/M and $0.35/M. Cached tokens cost 90% less.

How to claim: 1) Sign up at https://platform.inceptionlabs.ai/ → 2) Create an API key → 3) 100M tokens apply automatically.

Deadline: Ongoing.

Link: Introducing Mercury 3

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Inception - 100M Free Tokens for Mercury 3 Verified Oct 12, 2026
Each new Inception account is assigned 100 million free tokens to get started with the OpenAI-compatible API for its Mercury diffusion LLMs (including Mercury 3), with no payment details required.

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