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The [Model] Support Hy3 preview pull request was merged on April 23, 2026.
This reference covers the open mixture reasoning and agent checkpoint with a quantized companion. It separates text-backed benchmark claims from the image-only appendix and keeps provider pricing distinct.
Hy3 is the vendor reference for tencent/Hy3, as of 2026-08-12. Model scale: 295B total; 21B activated; 3.8B MTP; Context length: 256K, as of 2026-08-12. RunInfra has not measured this model; every figure below belongs to its named source, cited and dated.
| Group | Fact | Source-cited display value | Source and date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | Release identity | tencent/Hy3 | SourceRetrieved 2026-08-12 |
| Identity | Vendor description | Hy3 is a 295B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 21B active parameters and 3.8B MTP layer parameters, developed by the Tencent Hy Team. | SourceRetrieved 2026-08-12 |
| Identity | Lineage | Following the Hy3 Preview launch in late April, we gathered feedback from 50+ products and scaled up post-training with higher quality data. | SourceRetrieved 2026-08-12 |
| Identity | OpenRouter release date | Jul 6, 2026 | SourceRetrieved 2026-08-12 |
| Architecture | Model scale | 295B total; 21B activated; 3.8B MTP | SourceRetrieved 2026-08-12 |
| Architecture | Layer configuration | 80 layers excluding MTP; 1 MTP layer | SourceRetrieved 2026-08-12 |
| Architecture | Expert routing | 192 experts, top-8 activated | SourceRetrieved 2026-08-12 |
| Architecture | Attention | 64 (GQA, 8 KV heads, head dim 128) | SourceRetrieved 2026-08-12 |
| Architecture | Hidden and intermediate sizes | hidden 4096; intermediate 13312 | SourceRetrieved 2026-08-12 |
| Architecture | Vocabulary | 120832 | SourceRetrieved 2026-08-12 |
| Architecture | Precision | BF16 | SourceRetrieved 2026-08-12 |
| Architecture | Vendor architecture framing | Built on a hybrid fast-and-slow-thinking Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture | SourceRetrieved 2026-08-12 |
| Context | Context length | 256K | SourceRetrieved 2026-08-12 |
| Modalities | Pipeline tag | text generation | SourceRetrieved 2026-08-12 |
| License | Weights license | Hy3 is released under the Apache License 2.0. | SourceRetrieved 2026-08-12 |
| License | License file | Apache License, Version 2.0; Copyright (C) 2026 Tencent. All rights reserved. | SourceRetrieved 2026-08-12 |
| Pricing | OpenRouter listing | $0.1288 per 1M input tokens / $0.5336 per 1M output tokens | SourceRetrieved 2026-08-12 |
| Availability | Repository access | Ungated repository. | SourceRetrieved 2026-08-12 |
| Availability | Weight distribution | We open-source Hy3 and Hy3-FP8 model weights on Hugging Face, ModelScope, GitCode, and CNB. | SourceRetrieved 2026-08-12 |
| Availability | FP8 companion | tencent/Hy3-FP8; FP8 quantized instruct model | SourceRetrieved 2026-08-12 |
| Availability | WorkBuddy access | available free of charge to users worldwide until 31 August 2026 (Pacific Time) | SourceRetrieved 2026-08-12 |
| Availability | vLLM recipe floor | vLLM 0.26.0+ | SourceRetrieved 2026-08-12 |
| Availability | Vendor serving recommendation | For production serving, we recommend using vLLM or SGLang, both of which provide dedicated recipes for Hy3 | SourceRetrieved 2026-08-12 |
| Availability | Main weights | tencent/Hy3 | SourceRetrieved 2026-08-12 |
| Availability | Quantized instruct weights | tencent/Hy3-FP8 | SourceRetrieved 2026-08-12 |
"Today, we introduce Hy3, which outperforms similar-size models and rivals flagship open-source models with 2-5x parameters."
SourceRetrieved 2026-08-12
"Hy3 recorded more than 68 times as many API calls as the previous-generation model and ranked first globally on OpenRouter's global LLM usage leaderboard within one week of launch."
SourceRetrieved 2026-08-12
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As of 2026-08-12, release identity: tencent/Hy3.
As of 2026-08-12, repository access: Ungated repository.
As of 2026-08-12, repository access: Ungated repository.
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