Inception LLM API Models & Pricing

Browse Inception LLM API models with normalized prompt pricing, output pricing, context windows, release dates, and popularity signals.

1Models tracked
1Priced models
1Popular models
0Latest releases

Provider shortlist

Use Inception as a model-level shortlist, not a single default choice.

Start from the cost, context, and popularity picks below, then open the model pages or head-to-head comparisons before choosing an API.

Cost pick Mercury 2 $0.62 sample workload
Context pick Mercury 2 128K context window
Popular pick Mercury 2 #143 popularity signal
When to avoid Narrow catalog Inception currently has a small tracked catalog, so compare it with broader provider hubs before treating it as a complete vendor shortlist.
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Inception comparisons

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ComparisonSample Cost WinnerLarger ContextNewest Release
Aion-2.0 vs Mercury 2Mercury 2Aion-2.0
Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Mercury 2Mercury 2Claude 3.5 Haiku
🔥Claude Opus 4.6 vs Mercury 2Mercury 2Claude Opus 4.6
🔥Claude Opus 4.7 vs Mercury 2Mercury 2Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Sonnet 4 vs Mercury 2Mercury 2Claude Sonnet 4
🔥Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Mercury 2Mercury 2Claude Sonnet 4.6
DeepSeek V3 0324 vs Mercury 2DeepSeek V3 0324DeepSeek V3 0324
DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus vs Mercury 2Mercury 2DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus

Cross-Provider Alternatives

Open alternatives hub

Use this shortlist when Inception is not a hard requirement and your first constraint is workload cost.

AlternativeProviderSample CostInput / 1MOutput / 1MContext
🔥Owl AlphaOpenRouter$0$0$01.05M
New🔥Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)NVIDIA$0$0$01M
🔥Laguna M.1 (free)Poolside$0$0$0262.14K
Nemotron 3 Super (free)NVIDIA$0$0$01M
gpt-oss-120b (free)OpenAI$0$0$0131.07K
Laguna XS.2 (free)Poolside$0$0$0262.14K

Inception model catalog

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ModelPromptOutputContextPopularity
Mercury 2$0.25$0.75128K#143