Inception Mercury Voice
A real-time reasoning model for voice agents
Details
- External ID
- 1264903
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Inception Mercury Voice
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.34585152838427946
- Tags
- API, Artificial Intelligence, Audio
- Fetched at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
Mercury Voice is Inception's diffusion LLM built to power voice agents. It reasons, calls tools, and follows long system prompts while returning its first answer token in 320 ms (median), 5.9x faster than GPT-6 Luna (no reasoning). It beats Gemma 4 31B and GLM-5.3-Flash on agentic and voice benchmarks, at about $0.009 per minute of conversation. OpenAI API compatible, so it works with LiveKit, Pipecat, Vapi and Retell.
Enrichment
- Theme
- multimodal foundation models and APIs
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Model & infra
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- real-time reasoning voice model for ai agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Competitors
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Attention rank: #118 of 200 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 332 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Gemini 3.1 Flash Live · ph · 2026-03-27 · 320 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Open-source simulation testing infra for voice agents · hn · 2026-09-10 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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- Τ³-Bench is out · hn · 2026-03-25 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Pluto - AI voice agent that helps professionals get discovered · yc · 2026-07-16 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Lightning V3 · ph · 2026-04-02 · 321 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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