Mercury 3 API pricing

What is Mercury 3?

Mercury 3 is a text model in the Outrun catalog. Its developer describes it for diffusion-based text generation for support, tutoring, data work and web navigation. The standard rate is $0.20 in / $0.70 out per 1M tokens.

What are the Mercury 3 model details?

How do I call Mercury 3?

Use your Outrun key and the exact model ID. Requests use prepaid USD credit.

curl https://api.outrun.to/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OUTRUN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "model": "mercury-3",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Hello!"
    }
  ],
  "max_tokens": 8192
}'

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.outrun.to/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["OUTRUN_API_KEY"],
)
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="mercury-3",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
    max_tokens=8192,
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)

Which tools work with Mercury 3?

Any client that accepts an OpenAI-compatible base URL and a model ID can use mercury-3. Setup guides: Cline (OpenAI Compatible), OpenCode, SillyTavern, LiteLLM.

Use these setup values for this model ID. Recommended output settings can be lower than the route maximum.

How does Mercury 3 compare on cost?

Assumes 1,000 input + 300 output tokens per turn, repeated 1,000 times, at standard-tier rates without caching. Input / output shown per 1M tokens, rounded up to the cent.

Which similar models can I try?

Common questions about Mercury 3

Where can I find more models?