Inception: Mercury vs Mistral Medium 3
Compare Inception: Mercury by Inception against Mistral Medium 3 by Mistral AI, context windows of 32K vs 131K, tested across 55 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Mistral Medium 3
Inception: MercuryRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Mistral Medium 3 has the edge — bigger model tier, bigger context window.
Mistral Medium 3 is 5.0x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Inception: Mercury
Input
$10.00
Output
$10.00
Mistral Medium 3
Input
$0.40
25× cheaper
Output
$2.00
5.0× cheaper
Mistral Medium 3 is cheaper on both — 25× input, 5.0× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
50%
Mistral Medium 3 uses 4.6x more transitions
Inception: Mercury
Mistral Medium 3
55%Vocabulary57%
40wSentence Length17w
0.39Hedging0.73
4.9Bold8.6
3.8Lists6.5
0.04Emoji0.06
1.04Headings1.18
0.03Transitions0.15
Based on 17 + 15 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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