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Inception: Mercury Decide (free)

inception/mercury-decide:free

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Mercury Decide is Inception's structured decision model, served as a System One endpoint. Send a state along with typed questions, and it returns a choice, a score, or a yes/no answer, each with a calibrated probability taken directly from the model rather than written out as text, so output tokens are free. It makes up to 14 decisions per second and reports how certain it is, so a decision system can run it on every case and escalate the unsure ones to a human. Mercury Decide uses the same /v1/systemone schema as Jev.

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33K
Released
Sep 30, 2026
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Providers

This model is hosted by one provider. OpenRouter forwards every request to it directly — no routing decisions to make.

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

API

Drop-in code to call this model. It runs on the OpenRouter Decisions API rather than the OpenAI-compatible chat endpoint, so the request and response shapes below are specific to structured decisions — chat completions SDKs will not work with it.

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Frequently asked questions

Mercury Decide is Inception's structured decision model, served as a System One endpoint. Send a state along with typed questions, and it returns a choice, a score, or a yes/no answer, each with a calibrated probability taken directly from the model rather than written out as text, so output tokens are free.

Yes. The pricing shown on this page for Mercury Decide (free) is zero, so you are not charged for prompt or completion tokens. Free endpoints are rate limited — see the rate limit docs.

Mercury Decide (free) has a 32,768 token context window.

Mercury Decide (free) accepts text as input and returns structured decisions.

Mercury 2.5 and Mercury 2 are other text models from Inception.

Mercury Decide (free) was released on September 30, 2026.

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