Inception Slashes GA Pricing, Becomes Cheapest Top-10 Model on OpenRouter

Key Info

Inception's general availability launch on OpenRouter brings a steep price cut to $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens — 5x below preview pricing and 6x below Mercury 2 on input — making it the least expensive model in the OpenRouter leaderboard's top 10.

Highlights

• Input pricing drops 5x from preview and is 6x cheaper than Mercury 2 on input.
• Now the cheapest model in the top 10 of the OpenRouter leaderboard, with roughly 2x the context of Mercury 2.
• Supports 260K context, tool calling, structured outputs, and configurable reasoning effort.