Mercury Coder Small Beta: API pricing, providers and specs
Mercury Coder Small Beta is a text model by Inception. One provider serves it: Vercel AI Gateway, at $1 /1M.
How Mercury Coder Small Beta compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Mid-priced: its lowest price is $1 /1M against a median of $1.10; 49% of comparable models cost less.
- Its 32K-token context window is larger than 5% of them (median 262K), about 50 pages of text.
- 1 providers serve it; 0% of comparable models have fewer.
Mercury Coder Small Beta prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.25/1M | $1/1M | — | 32K |
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Inception
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 32K≈ 50 pages of text
- Max output
- 16K
- Capabilities
- JSON, Tool calling
- Released
- Feb 26, 2025
- License
- proprietary
- Open weights
- No, API only
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercury Coder Small Betathis model | $1/1M | 32K | — | 1 |
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Mercury Coder Small Beta FAQ
The lowest price for Mercury Coder Small Beta is $1 /1M, at Vercel AI Gateway.
Mercury Coder Small Beta reads up to 32K tokens per request and writes up to 16K.
No. Mercury Coder Small Beta is only available through an API; Inception does not publish its weights.
1 API providers serve Mercury Coder Small Beta. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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