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Mercury Coder Small
misc·misc/mercury-coder-small·GA·Closed·mercury series
Model by Inception AI. A diffusion large language model that runs incredibly quickly (500+ tokens/second) while matching Claude 3.5 Haiku and GPT-4o-mini. 1st in speed on Copilot arena, and matching 2nd in quality.
At a glance
Reference price$0.25 / $1.00 per 1M
Cache read $0.125 · NanoGPT
Lowest paid$0.25 / $1.00
NanoGPT Gateway
Context32,768
Output limit16,384
Capabilities
ReasoningTool useStructured output? TemperatureAttachments
Modalities
Text
Knowledge cutoff—
Released / updated2024-01-01 / 2024-01-01
Quality & performance
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Available at 1 providers1 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.25 | $1.00 | $0.125 | — | 32,768 | 16,384 |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1NanoGPT$85.00
The cheapest paid channel is the only channel.
Related models
Mercury 2same series$0.25 / $0.75Inception: Mercury 2same series$0.25 / $0.75Mercury Coder Small Betasame series$0.25 / $1.00Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instructcheaper alternative$0.144 / $0.574Llama-3.1-8B-Instructcheaper alternative$0.15 / $0.45Qwen3 Coder Flashcheaper alternative$0.144 / $0.574Llama 3.2 3B Instructcheaper alternative$0.10 / $0.335
Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended