gpt-oss-20b is 2.8× cheaper per million tokens (blended). Mercury 3 has the larger context window (1,000,000 vs 131,072 tokens, 7.6×). gpt-oss-20b is open-weights; the other is not.
Mercury 3 vs gpt-oss-20b
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Mercury 3
Inception · inception__mercury-3
gpt-oss-20bopen
OpenAI · openai__gpt-oss-20b
Identity
| Field | inception__mercury-3 | openai__gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | OpenAI |
| Slug | inception__mercury-3 | openai__gpt-oss-20b |
| Status | live | live |
| Open weights | No | Yes |
| License | — | — |
| HuggingFace | — | openai/gpt-oss-20b |
Quality
| Field | inception__mercury-3 | openai__gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| Quality index (0–100) | — | — |
Cost
| Field | inception__mercury-3 | openai__gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| Input $ / 1M tokens | $0.10 | $0.03 |
| Cached input $ / 1M | $0.01 | $0.03 |
| Output $ / 1M tokens | $0.35 | $0.13 |
Context
| Field | inception__mercury-3 | openai__gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| Max context tokens | 1,000,000 | 131,072 |
| Max output tokens | 131,072 | 117,964 |
Modalities
| Field | inception__mercury-3 | openai__gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| Input | text | text |
| Output | text | text |