Hunyuan HY3

By price, Hunyuan HY3 ranks 4th cheapest of 68 on input and 8th on output. Its quality score of 87 ranks 33rd of 68, and on value (quality score ÷ output price) it ranks 7th of 68. Its blended rate sits 96% below the catalog average.

In real billing terms: a support chatbot handling 50,000 turns a month (2,000 input / 500 output tokens each) costs about $12 per month on Hunyuan HY3, while a RAG workload of 20,000 queries (8,000 input / 800 output tokens each) runs about $13. Because output is priced 3.3× input here, long-generation tasks scale cost fastest — cap output length before you optimise anything else.

A 256K context window holds roughly 341 pages of A4 text (at ~750 tokens per page), ranking 36th of 68 here. That covers typical RAG and multi-turn chat, though book-length inputs still need retrieval and chunking. Output runs at about 110 tok/s (25th fastest of 68), acceptable interactively, though long responses will feel slow.

We track 2 Tencent models, and Hunyuan HY3's blended rate sits 21% below that provider's average. Among the models tracked here it is already one of the cheapest options at this quality level. Going the other way, qwen3.5 scores 91 on quality for about 13% more.

The closest model in Tencent's line-up is Hunyuan TurboS ($0.11 input / $0.28 output, quality 79). Against it, Hunyuan HY3 scores 8 points higher on quality, runs 50 tok/s slower (about 31%), costs 53% less blended. When two models sit this close on price, the deciding factor is usually the quality ceiling — run both against your real prompts before picking.