InceptionReleased Oct 19, 2026
NewProprietary
Mercury 3
Composite IQ ?
98
Effective cost
$0.40/1M
$0.20 in · $0.70 out
Speed
Not measured
No speed data yet
Context
1Mtokens
1,000,000 tokens in
Evidence
0of 7 dims
0 of 39 benchmarks
IQ profile
Seven dimensions, averaged equally into Composite IQ
MeasuredEstimated95% range
#1 in dimensionTop-10 median
IQ dimensions
Ranks are among models scored in each dimension. Ranges are model-based estimates, not calibrated confidence intervals.
DimensionIQPosition · 70–160RankEvidencevs Top 10
Mercury 395% range (model-based, uncalibrated)Top-10 median#1 in dimension100 = average human
Benchmark results
0 of 39 Composite IQ benchmarks have a published result for Mercury 3. Benchmarks without a result stay listed so gaps are visible.
Abstract Reasoning IQ 82 · estimatedNo published results0/5
No published results yet for Abstract Reasoning. The 82 shown is estimated from Mercury 3's other dimensions and will be replaced as results come in. How estimates work
ARC-AGI-3ARC-AGI-2ARC-AGI-1Chess PuzzlesMystery Game Puzzles
Mathematical Reasoning IQ 96 · estimatedNo published results0/5
No published results yet for Mathematical Reasoning. The 96 shown is estimated from Mercury 3's other dimensions and will be replaced as results come in. How estimates work
FrontierMath Tier 4FrontierMath Tier 1-3ProofBench 1.1MathArenaAIME
Academic Reasoning IQ 107 · estimatedNo published results0/6
No published results yet for Academic Reasoning. The 107 shown is estimated from Mercury 3's other dimensions and will be replaced as results come in. How estimates work
Humanity's Last ExamGPQA DiamondCritPtSciCodeMMLU-ProMMMU-Pro
Programmatic Reasoning IQ 99 · estimatedNo published results0/6
No published results yet for Programmatic Reasoning. The 99 shown is estimated from Mercury 3's other dimensions and will be replaced as results come in. How estimates work
LiveCodeBenchIOI V2Terminal-Bench 4.0ProgramBenchSWE-rebenchMirrorCode
Computer Use IQ 95 · estimatedNo published results0/5
No published results yet for Computer Use. The 95 shown is estimated from Mercury 3's other dimensions and will be replaced as results come in. How estimates work
BrowseCompOSWorld-VerifiedMCP AtlasArena.ai Agent ArenaAgents' Last Exam
Reliability IQ 110 · estimatedNo published results0/6
No published results yet for Reliability. The 110 shown is estimated from Mercury 3's other dimensions and will be replaced as results come in. How estimates work
SimpleQA VerifiedaaOmniscienceBullshitBench v2IFBenchAA Long Context Reasoning v1.1FACTS Grounding
Knowledge Work IQ 99 · estimatedNo published results0/6
No published results yet for Knowledge Work. The 99 shown is estimated from Mercury 3's other dimensions and will be replaced as results come in. How estimates work
AA-Briefcase v1.1GDPval-AA v2.1AutomationBench-AAGDP.pdfAA-AnalystAgentEnterpriseOps-Gym-AA
Release & availability
Facts from the publisher's announcement and documentation.
- Released
- Developer
- Inception
- Access
- Available through the Inception API Platform, OpenRouter, Baseten and Vercel.
- Weights
- ProprietaryHosted access only
- Inputs
- text
- Context
- 1,000,000 tokens
- API price
- $0.20 in · $0.70 outper 1M tokens · full pricing
What Inception says
- Diffusion language model with a 1M-token context window.
Limitations
- Launch promotional pricing is temporary; listed prices use the publisher standard rates.
- Publisher throughput and agent-harness claims are not imported as independent measurements.
Publisher statements, not AI IQ measurements.
About this score
How much of Mercury 3's IQ is measured, and how the rest is estimated.
0/ 39benchmark results
0/ 7dimensions measured
7estimated
0/5Abstract
0/5Math
0/6Academic
0/6Coding
0/5Computer Use
0/6Reliability
0/6Knowledge Work
Bar height = share of benchmarks with resultsEstimatedNo score
Measured results are shown as published
Every score in the benchmark tables comes from its source unchanged. Composite IQ averages all seven dimensions equally.
Estimates fill the gaps
Abstract Reasoning, Mathematical Reasoning, Academic Reasoning, Programmatic Reasoning, Computer Use, Reliability and Knowledge Work have no published results yet, so their IQ is estimated from Mercury 3's other dimensions. Missing benchmarks can also draw on its predecessor, Mercury 2.5; a predecessor is an estimation input, not evidence that this model has the predecessor's measured results.
A missing result is not a zero
Benchmark versions and evaluation harnesses can differ between sources, so small gaps between models may not be meaningful.
Compare Mercury 3
Side-by-side pages for the models it is most often weighed against.
#1 overall
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IQ141 43 higherEffective cost$6.25 15.6× pricier
Predecessor
Mercury 2.5
IQ100 2 higherEffective cost$0.422 about the same
US (Other) #1
Beam
IQ114 16 higher
Closest IQ
ernie-5.0
IQ98 same IQ
Most similar profile
gemma-4-26b
IQ99 1 higherEffective cost$0.136 3.0× cheaper
Similar price
gemini-3.1-flash-lite
IQ104 6 higherEffective cost$0.425 about the same
Mercury 3Comparison model
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers about Mercury 3, drawn from the same data as the rest of this page.
How AI IQ scores models →Get this data from the API →- What is the IQ of Mercury 3?
- Mercury 3 has an estimated IQ of 98, which ranks #135 out of 173 public models on the AI IQ leaderboard. The score combines seven equally weighted reasoning dimensions using measured benchmark results and conservative estimates for missing coverage.
- What is Mercury 3 best at?
- There isn't any published benchmark data to judge that yet. None of the seven dimensions AI IQ scores has a measured result for Mercury 3, so its strengths and weaknesses can't be compared with other models.
- What is the EQ of Mercury 3?
- Mercury 3 doesn't have an EQ score yet. EQ (emotional reasoning) is calculated from EQ-Bench 4 and AttuneBench, and neither has published a result for Mercury 3. AI IQ doesn't estimate EQ from other benchmarks, so the score appears once one of those results is published.
- Which benchmarks has Mercury 3 been tested on?
- None yet. Mercury 3 has no published results on the 39 benchmarks behind AI IQ's Composite IQ. AI IQ only uses published, source-backed results, so its profile fills in as evaluations of this model appear.
- How much does Mercury 3 cost?
- Mercury 3 costs $0.20 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens. Adjusted for how many tokens it actually consumes on real tasks, its effective cost works out to $0.3998 per million input-plus-output tokens.
- Is Mercury 3 open source?
- No — Mercury 3 is a proprietary model. Its weights are not publicly available, so it is used through hosted APIs and products.
- Who developed Mercury 3?
- Mercury 3 was developed by Inception, based in the United States.
- When was Mercury 3 released?
- Mercury 3 was publicly released on October 19, 2026.
- How large is the context window of Mercury 3?
- Mercury 3 supports a context window of 1,000,000 tokens — the amount of text it can consider in a single request.
- How fast is Mercury 3?
- AI IQ doesn't have independent speed measurements for Mercury 3 yet. Speed comes from independent tests of a model's hosted API, which aren't available for every model — especially new, restricted-access, or self-hosted ones.