Mercury 3 from Inception is now available on AI Gateway with 50% off launch pricing. Inception reports strong results across a range of benchmarks, with generation speeds above 1,000 tokens per second.

Mercury 3 uses diffusion to generate text through parallel refinement. It brings improved reasoning to latency-sensitive workloads such as browser agents, real-time search, interactive education, and customer support. A 1M-token context window gives those applications room for long documents and extended conversation histories.

Set AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY in your environment. Use inception/mercury-3 as the model name:

To use it in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and more, install the latest Vercel CLI and run setup:

npx vercel ai-gateway setup

Then select inception/mercury-3 in the agent.…