# Mercury Decide pricing and access

> Mercury Decide is Inception's hosted decision model. OpenRouter listed $0.02 per million input tokens with free output on 22 Oct 2026.

Updated 2026-11-04 (Australia/Adelaide)

By Inception · Released: 2026-09-30 · HOSTED

Inception's decision model, served as a System One endpoint: send state and typed questions, get a choice, a score or a yes/no answer, each with a probability.

## Facts

- Price: $0.02 per million input tokens at a 50% discount, output free; a free tier remains (OpenRouter, as of 22 Oct 2026) · [Compare prices](<https://decisionmodels.ai/pricing>)
- Context: 66K tokens (OpenRouter)
- Access: OpenRouter

## Claims and sources

- **VENDOR-REPORTED**: Up to 14 decisions per second [source](<https://x.com/_inception_ai/status/2105375133003325768>)
- **VENDOR-REPORTED**: The most intelligent decision model on OpenRouter, on [JevBench](<https://decisionmodels.ai/jevbench>) v1.4 (the board was on v1.5.4 as of 2 Oct 2026) [source](<https://x.com/_inception_ai/status/2105375133003325768>)
- **INDEPENDENT**: On Vals AI's LegalBench sample, 0.869 to [Jev](<https://decisionmodels.ai/models/jev>)'s 0.740 accuracy; on claim verification its router stayed inside a 1% error budget where [Jev](<https://decisionmodels.ai/models/jev>)'s went over [source](<https://www.vals.ai/blogs/evaluation-of-mercury-decide>)

## Links

- [Source: OpenRouter](<https://openrouter.ai/inception/mercury-decide:free>)
- [Source: Announcement](<https://x.com/_inception_ai/status/2105375133003325768>)

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