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Mercury 3

Mercury 3 is a model from Inception, released October 19, 2026. It ranks #23 of 26 models on the Vals Index with 43.66%. Its best result is #54 of 118 on Vibe Code Bench v1.1.

Release Date: Oct 19, 2026

Developer Inception  🇺🇸
Context Window 1M
Max Output Tokens 131k
Token Costs (in/out) $0.10/0.35
Weights Private
Input Modalities

Accuracy

43.66 % ± 1.23

Cost / Test (Vals Index)

$ 0.478

Latency

22 min 6 s

Fallback Rate 0.00%
Refusal Rate 0.14%
Vals Index
BenchmarksAccuracyRankings
Vals Index

43.66%

±1.23
23/26
Vals Finance Index

47.22%

±1.47
27/30
Code Migration v1.1

39.26%

±3.17
21/28
EMB v1.1

57.88%

±2.91
30/32
Finance Agent v2.1

54.71%

±1.99
26/30
Legal Research Bench

28.85%

±3.15
53/84
Tax Agent Bench

18.17%

±2.54
51/75
Vibe Code Bench v1.1

60.93%

±5.38
54/118
HLAB-Vals-1.1

5.00%

±1.61
22/27
Terminal-Bench 4.0

3.03%

±0.00
47/54
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Vals
Default Provider : Inception
Temperature: Default
Top P: Default
Top K: Default
Max Output Tokens: 131,072
Reasoning Effort: high