Mercury 3

Mercury 3

Inception
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About

Mercury 3 is a hosted generative AI model from Inception for developers building interactive applications. It uses a diffusion-based approach to generate text in parallel and supports streaming responses, tool use, structured outputs, and multimodal input including text, images, and audio. Through the Inception API, teams can use it for conversational assistants, voice applications, search and browsing workflows, tutoring, and other agentic tasks that benefit from responsive generation. The model is available through Inception’s API and named inference partners, with OpenAI-compatible API access for existing applications. Developers can evaluate output quality and latency, then integrate the model into their software using the documented API and SDK ecosystem. Usage is token-metered, with a free allocation and paid input/output token rates; enterprise options include dedicated capacity and support.

About

MiniMax M3.1 Flash is a hosted large language model for developers building coding assistants, AI agents, and software applications. Available through MiniMax’s API and MiniMax Code, it accepts text, image, and video input and generates text responses. Documented uses include code generation and debugging, multi-step reasoning, tool use, codebase and document analysis, and computer-use workflows. The API offers a context window of up to 1 million tokens, adjustable reasoning effort, and OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible request formats. Usage is billed by input, output, and cached-input tokens. MiniMax provides documentation for API integration and model use. M3.1 Flash is available through the hosted API, M Plan, and MiniMax Code; model weights are planned for a later release.

Platforms Supported

Windows Not Supported
Mac Not Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Platforms Supported

Windows Not Supported
Mac Not Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Audience

Developers and product or engineering teams building conversational, voice-enabled, multimodal, search, browsing, tutoring, and agentic applications; enterprise teams can request dedicated capacity.

Audience

Software developers and organizations building coding assistants, AI agents, and applications that use a hosted language model.

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Not Supported

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Not Supported

API

Offers API Supported

API

Offers API Supported

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$0.10/1M input tokens
Launch pricing is $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.35 per million output tokens, 50% below standard rates of $0.20 and $0.70. A free allocation of 100 million tokens is available. Usage is token-metered; enterprise deployments offer dedicated capacity and priority support.
Free Version Supported
Free Trial Not Supported

Pricing

$0.15/1M input tokens
Input: $0.15 per 1 million tokens; output: $0.60 per 1 million tokens; cached input: $0.015 per 1 million tokens. Standard pay-as-you-go billing in USD, based on token usage.
Free Version Not Supported
Free Trial Not Supported

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 0.0 / 5
ease 0.0 / 5
features 0.0 / 5
design 0.0 / 5
support 0.0 / 5

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Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • It feels noticeably faster than M3 while still being strong enough for coding, research, computer-use tasks, and longer agent workflows. The 1M-token context window is a big advantage too. I can keep large repos, long documents, screenshots, video context, and a lot of prior agent history in the same session without constantly trimming things down. The pricing is probably the best part. At $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens, I can run it heavily without worrying that every agent loop is getting expensive. I also like how much MiniMax improved the agent side. M3.1 Flash is aimed at real multi-step work across coding, enterprise automation, computer use, and even cybersecurity, rather than just fast chat responses.

Cons

  • The main downside is that reasoning is always enabled, so it is not quite as lightweight as a pure instant-response model for trivial tasks.

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Not Supported

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Not Supported

Company Information

Inception
Founded: 2024
United States
www.inceptionlabs.ai/models

Company Information

MiniMax
Founded: 2022
China
www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-m31f

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Categories

AI Models Supported

Categories

AI Coding Models Supported
AI Models Supported
Foundation Models Supported
Multimodal Models Supported

Integrations

APIFree Not Supported
Alibaba AI Coding Plan Not Supported
Claude Code Not Supported
Cline Not Supported
ClinePass Not Supported
Factory Droid Not Supported
Hermes Agent Not Supported
MaxHermes Not Supported
MiniMax Agent Not Supported
MiniMax Mavis Not Supported
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Not Supported
Ollama Not Supported
OpenAI Supported
OpenClaw Not Supported
OpenCode Zen Not Supported
OpenRouter Supported
OpenTag Not Supported
Pi Agent Not Supported
Tabbit Browser Not Supported
Together AI Not Supported

Integrations

APIFree Supported
Alibaba AI Coding Plan Supported
Claude Code Supported
Cline Supported
ClinePass Supported
Factory Droid Supported
Hermes Agent Supported
MaxHermes Supported
MiniMax Agent Supported
MiniMax Mavis Supported
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Supported
Ollama Supported
OpenAI Not Supported
OpenClaw Supported
OpenCode Zen Supported
OpenRouter Not Supported
OpenTag Supported
Pi Agent Supported
Tabbit Browser Supported
Together AI Supported
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