InferIndex · https://inferindex.dev/en/compare/inception/mercury-3/vs/particle-ai/particle-1
Mercury 3 costs from $0.163 per million tokens at a 3:1 input:output mix: the cheapest price. Particle-1 costs from $0.438, the cheapest of 2 current offers without a flag. A lower price, $0.163, is listed with a flag. Prices checked on .
Verdict
At these prices, Particle-1 costs 2.7× as much as Mercury 3 per million tokens (at a 3:1 input:output mix).
Each model's lowest blended price, per 1M tokens, across every provider we track.
| Model | Lowest blended price, $ per 1M tokens. Green background: the most favourable value of each column. | Input price of the cheapest offer, per 1M tokens | Output price of the cheapest offer, per 1M tokens | The provider's published policy says the text you send is not used to train models. We only show what is published; we can't check it ourselves. | For 2,000 input tokens and 500 output tokens per request, 1,000 requests a day, at the cheapest offer for that workload. Change the workload above. | Offers | Providers | The maximum amount of text, counted in tokens, the model can take in and write in a single request. Past this limit, the request is refused or cut. | Observation |
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| Most expensive offer · $0.163. The highest blended price among comparable offers: one price per provider (its cheapest route), standard tier, current prices only. Priority tiers and prices converted from points are not counted. | $0.10 | $0.35, most favourable value of the column | $0.163, most favourable value of the column | $11.25at Venice | 7 | 6, most favourable value of the column | 1M | ||
| Most expensive offer · $0.438. The highest blended price among comparable offers: one price per provider (its cheapest route), standard tier, current prices only. Priority tiers and prices converted from points are not counted. | $0.05, most favourable value of the column | $0.50 | at NanoGPT | $10.50, most favourable value of the columnat Particle AI via OpenRouter | 5 | 4 | 1M |
Green background: the most favourable value of each column.
Prices as of Oct 31, 2026, 11:39 AM UTCSame rules as the API's /cheapest route. The monthly estimate uses the cheapest offer for that workload.
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