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title: "Inception AI's Mercury Decide Hits #2 on OpenRouter User Rank"
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summary: "Inception AI's Mercury Decide reached the number 2 position on OpenRouter user rankings within seven days of its launch. The model is available via the Inception API, Baseten, and OpenRouter, with a paid endpoint offering zero data retention for $0.02 per million input tokens."
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# Inception AI's Mercury Decide Hits \#2 on OpenRouter User Rank

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**Published:** 2026-10-08T22:22:46.000Z
**Category:** Tools
**Topics:** llm, devtools

## Summary

Inception AI's Mercury Decide reached the number 2 position on OpenRouter user rankings within seven days of its launch\. The model is available via the Inception API, Baseten, and OpenRouter, with a paid endpoint offering zero data retention for $0\.02 per million input tokens\.

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