How did Inception Mercury Decide do on X?
Inception posted the Mercury Decide launch from @_inception_ai on Sep 30, 2026. The post has 20,437 views, 219 likes, 29 reposts, 13 quotes and 14 replies, an engagement rate of 1.35%. It ranks #2617 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks.
Introducing Mercury Decide: the most intelligent decision model on @OpenRouter (JevBench v1.4) and one of the fastest. Up to 14 decisions per second. Watch it go head-to-head with Jev in chess. Free for early access on OpenRouter: https://openrouter.ai/inception/mercury-decide:free
- 12%the median launch175K median views
- #2617of the launches we trackout of 2839
- 1.0xits own following20,919 followers
- Views
- 20.4K
- Likes
- 219
- Reposts
- 29
- Quotes
- 13
- Replies
- 14
- Bookmarks
- 112
What would these views cost to buy?
At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 20.4K views would cost $2K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 49x what this post got, for about $25K.
The post reached about 1.0 views for every follower of @_inception_ai.
What launched?
Inception launched Mercury Decide, a decision model that makes up to 14 decisions per second, free for early access on OpenRouter.
How does it compare with other launches?
Inception Mercury Decide has more views than 8% of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks: 12% of the median launch's 175K views.
- Inception Mercury Decide20.4K
- Median tracked launch175K
- #1: xAI Voice Cloning204M
| Metric | Inception Mercury Decide | Median launch |
|---|---|---|
| Views | 20.4K | 175K |
| Engagement rate | 1.35% | 0.48% |
| Views per follower | 1.0 | 2.8 |
| Quote posts | 13 | 27 |
| Saves per 10K views | 54.8 | 14.2 |
Other Inception launches we track: Inception Mercury 2 (198.1K views), Inception Mercury 3 (73.4K views), Inception Mercury 2.5 (72.4K views), Inception Mercury Voice (58.3K views), Inception Mercury Edit 2 (48.7K views) and Inception Mercury 2.5 Preview (22.1K views). All 7 Inception launches, or every ai launch.
Against launches like it
A launch only means something against comparable ones. These are the groups it belongs to, and where it sits in each.
| Compared with | Launches | Median views | This one | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI launches | 1,462 | 263K | 8% | #1393 |
| Accounts 10K to 100K followers | 1,135 | 99.4K | 21% | #998 |
| Video launch posts | 1,940 | 192.5K | 11% | #1811 |
| Every launch | 2,839 | 175K | 12% | #2617 |
What this launch shows
From an account with 20.9K followers, the post reached 1.0 times the account's following. Launches from accounts 10K to 100K followers reach a median of 3.1 times their following, so this one went about 32% as far as usual for its size. It ranks 998 of 1135 launches from accounts that size.
It drew 13 quote posts, 6.4 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.7. More people than usual added their own take, and a quote post is what carries a launch to audiences the account does not have.
The first line is "Introducing Mercury Decide: the most intelligent decision model on @OpenRouter (JevBench v1.4) and one of the fastest.". The post runs 37 words, against a median of 39 for launch posts here, and leads with a video: video launches have a median of 192.5K views, against 137.6K for the rest.
There is a link in the post. Launch posts with a link have a median of 160.8K views in the tracker.
It went out on a Wednesday (UTC). Wednesday launches have a median of 178.8K views; the strongest day is Tuesday at 192.3K.
Every comparison is against the 2839 launches in the tracker, read on Nov 14, 2026. Medians, not averages. See the state of launches on X for the full breakdown.
Questions about this launch
- What is Inception?
- In its own words on X: "Pioneering a new generation of LLMs." Inception posted the Mercury Decide launch from @_inception_ai on Sep 30, 2026.
- How many views did Inception Mercury Decide get on X?
- 20,437 views. Inception posted it from @_inception_ai on Sep 30, 2026, and the post has 219 likes, 29 reposts, 13 quotes, 14 replies and 112 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
- Was Inception Mercury Decide a big launch on X?
- It ranks #2617 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 8% of them and 12% of the median launch's 175K views. Its engagement rate is 1.35%, against a median of 0.48%.
- What would 20.4K views on X cost to buy?
- At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 20.4K views would cost $2K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 49x what this post got, for about $25K.
Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/inception-mercury-decide, read from the post on X on Nov 14, 2026. Free to cite with a link (CC BY 4.0). Get every launch as JSON.