Mercury: Coder Small API
Inception's Mercury: Coder Small, through an OpenAI-compatible API. Providers quote it on an open exchange, and each request goes to the offer with the lowest estimated charge that meets your rules.
- Providers compete for each request. The exchange ranks the offers that meet your rules by estimated charge. It fixes your maximum charge before the first token, and you pay for the tokens that the model uses.
- The OpenAI and Anthropic APIs. Use the OpenAI or Anthropic SDK that you have. Set the base URL and your key, and send mercury-coder-small as the model.
- Your data rules. Send x-liquid-retention: none and only offers whose provider does not keep your content compete for the request.
Facts
- Model name
- mercury-coder-small
- Maker
- Inception
- Context window
- 32.8K tokens
- Input price
- $0.250 per million tokens
- Output price
- $1.001 per million tokens
- Providers
- 1 independent provider
- Regions
- us
Providers
- Architect: us, $0.250 input and $1.001 output per million tokens, $0.250 cache read per million tokens, 32.8K tokens of context
Request
curl https://router.inference.ai.exchange/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $LIQUID_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "mercury-coder-small",
"messages": [{"role":"user","content":"Say hello."}]
}'Questions
- What is Mercury: Coder Small?
- Mercury: Coder Small is a model from Inception.
- How much does Mercury: Coder Small cost?
- Offers now ask $0.250 per million input tokens and $1.001 per million output tokens. A job pays for the tokens it uses. The exchange picks the cheapest eligible offer.
- What is the context length of Mercury: Coder Small?
- The largest offer takes 32,768 input tokens. A smaller offer can take less. The exchange skips an offer that cannot take your message.
- What can Mercury: Coder Small do?
- Its providers list Reasoning effort, JSON object, JSON schema, Frequency penalty, Logit bias, Log probabilities, Min-p sampling, Presence penalty, Repetition penalty, Seed, Stop sequences, Top-k sampling, Top-p sampling, Text, Tools.
- What inputs and outputs does Mercury: Coder Small support?
- Text → Text.
- Which providers serve Mercury: Coder Small?
- 1 independent provider quote it now, with 1 offer. The table above ranks them by the cost of a typical job.
- How do I call Mercury: Coder Small?
- Send "mercury-coder-small" as the model in an OpenAI or Anthropic request. The API section links to setup steps for each client.
- When was Mercury: Coder Small listed?
- The exchange first listed it on 10/5/2026. This is not its release date.