Inception: Mercury vs Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507
Compare Inception: Mercury by Inception against Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507 by Qwen, context windows of 32K vs 262K, tested across 55 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507
Inception: MercuryRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507 is 35x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Inception: Mercury
Input
$10.00
Output
$10.00
Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507
Input
$0.07
141× cheaper
Output
$0.28
35× cheaper
Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507 is cheaper on both — 141× input, 35× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
46%
Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507 uses 16.0x more emoji
Inception: Mercury
Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507
55%Vocabulary54%
40wSentence Length14w
0.39Hedging0.12
4.9Bold7.5
3.8Lists4.2
0.04Emoji0.68
1.04Headings0.93
0.03Transitions0.12
Based on 17 + 16 text responses
Research
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