Hy3 preview pricing and routing profile
Hy3 preview from Tencent lists at $0.18 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens, with a 262,144-token context window. Prices from OpenRouter's catalogue on 2026-09-28.
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Cost per 1,000 requests
| Request shape | List cost |
|---|---|
| Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out) | $0.114 |
| Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out) | $0.60 |
| Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out) | $1.74 |
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Can Gimbix route to it first?
Not as a first-answer model through OpenRouter: no host returns token log probabilities for Hy3 preview. It can still be the model Gimbix falls back to when a cheaper model is unsure.
Cheaper models that can answer first
Models priced below Hy3 preview that expose a confidence signal. Whether they answer your traffic as well is what a Gimbix pilot measures.
| Model | Input / output per 1M | Cheaper on a chat reply |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct | $0.15 / $0.60 | 10% |
| gpt-oss-120b | $0.15 / $0.60 | 10% |
| GPT-4o-mini | $0.15 / $0.60 | 10% |
| GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | $0.15 / $0.60 | 10% |
| GLM 5.3 Flash | $0.15 / $0.50 | 17% |
| Qwen3.8 Omni Flash | $0.15 / $0.47 | 19% |
Questions
How much does Hy3 preview cost?
Hy3 preview lists at $0.18 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens on OpenRouter as of 2026-09-28. A typical chat reply of 2,000 input and 400 output tokens costs about $0.60 per 1,000 requests.
What is the context window of Hy3 preview?
262,144 tokens.
Can a cheaper model replace Hy3 preview?
Sometimes. Gimbix proves it on your own traffic before routing: the cheaper model must match Hy3 preview on one half of your requests and make at most three answers worse on the other.