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New on the radar: Mercury 3 appeared in OpenRouter catalog
An email the second Inception’s next model answers on a public API, plus every frontier launch · no card
Our hourly sweep found an id that was not there an hour ago.
Catalog id: inception/mercury-3 Listed price: $0.10/$0.35 per 1M Context window: 1,000,000 tokens First observed by our sweep: 2026-10-19 19:03 UTC Source: OpenRouter catalog
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