Tencent: Hy3 preview
Analysis Summary
Tencent's Hy3 preview is a cost-efficient agent model with a 262K context window, tool use, and function calling. Its reasoning results are competitive for a value tier, while the available tool-use results and terminal performance support practical multi-step workflows. The combination is particularly useful where prompts include large documents, structured data, or repeated API actions.
Design for Online could trial Hy3 for SEO briefs, content audits, research extraction, and internal agents that need reliable function calls at volume. Its pricing, $0.063 per million input tokens and $0.21 per million output tokens, supports broad deployment. The main limitation is preview status, so critical client actions should retain validation and fallback paths.
Assessed August 9, 2026
Editorial notes
Hy3 preview combines strong tool-use reliability with a 262K context window, competitive reasoning, and very low pricing. It fits long-document agents and high-volume structured workflows, though its preview status warrants task-specific validation.
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DFO Verdict
Hy3 preview combines strong tool-use reliability with a 262K context window, competitive reasoning, and very low pricing. It fits long-document agents and high-volume structured workflows, though its preview status warrants task-specific validation.
Benchmark scores
Magenta = intelligence · Ink = technical/agentic · Cyan = content & long-context · Grey = community benchmarks. Data: Artificial Analysis, Hugging Face.
34.4 Intelligence Index
How Tencent: Hy3 preview compares
Tencent: Hy3 preview ranks #97 of 427 AI models we track for overall intelligence. Its 262K-token context window is larger than 73% of the models we list. At $0.18 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 58% of comparable models.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Strongest on business fit. The pulled-in technical corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
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| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.18 | $0.000180 |
| Output | $0.60 | $0.000600 |
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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.
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Talk to our teamAbout Tencent: Hy3 preview
Hy3 preview is a high-efficiency Mixture-of-Experts model from Tencent designed for agentic workflows and production use. It supports configurable reasoning levels across disabled, low, and high modes, allowing it to..
Frequently asked questions about Tencent: Hy3 preview
How much does Tencent: Hy3 preview cost?
Tencent: Hy3 preview costs $0.18 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Tencent: Hy3 preview?
Tencent: Hy3 preview has a context window of 262,144 tokens (262K).
What can Tencent: Hy3 preview do?
Tencent: Hy3 preview supports tool use and function calling.
Who created Tencent: Hy3 preview?
Tencent: Hy3 preview is developed by Tencent and was released on April 22, 2026.