Hy3 pricing and routing profile
Hy3 from Tencent lists at $0.132 per million input tokens and $0.528 per million output tokens, with a 262,144-token context window. Prices from OpenRouter's catalogue on 2026-09-28.
Tool callingStructured outputReasoning control
Cost per 1,000 requests
| Request shape | List cost |
|---|---|
| Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out) | $0.0845 |
| Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out) | $0.475 |
| Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out) | $1.32 |
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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. 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 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 8B Instruct | $0.117 / $0.455 | 12% |
| Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct | $0.104 / $0.416 | 21% |
| Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | $0.075 / $0.50 | 26% |
| Nemotron 3 Super | $0.08 / $0.45 | 28% |
| Gemma 3 27B | $0.08 / $0.45 | 28% |
| Qwen3 14B | $0.12 / $0.24 | 29% |
Questions
How much does Hy3 cost?
Hy3 lists at $0.132 per million input tokens and $0.528 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 $0.475 per 1,000 requests.
What is the context window of Hy3?
262,144 tokens.
Can a cheaper model replace Hy3?
Sometimes. Gimbix proves it on your own traffic before routing: the cheaper model must match Hy3 on one half of your requests and make at most three answers worse on the other.