# Hy3 LLM

10 Hacker News commenters recommended Hy3 LLM and 5 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Cheap, capable open model that people use for coding and HTML generation, though some find its visual output plain and its later edits less impressive.

## Why people recommend it

- Very cheap per task (2 comments): "Tencent's Hy3 model also got it right and did it in 283k tokens for $0.03" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49042210)) "Hy3 is the cheapest decent model on OpenRouter" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48317823))
- Strong for its size (2 comments): "Same goes for Tencent Hy3 and MiniMax M3, which almost match Opus 4.6 levels" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48955056)) "Very impressive model for its size" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848200))
- Builds working HTML and SVG (2 comments): "First model I've tried that gave me back HTML with a "Change Pelican Color" button" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318976)) "It actually rendered an SVG inline in the HTML page." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48321010))

## What people warn about

- Felt weaker than later versions (2 comments): "I wasn't very impressed with it a couple of months ago." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48851301)) "Hy4 is a big improvement over h3" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49502506))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Claude Opus](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-opus.md): 3331 recommend
- [OpenAI GPT](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gpt-5-5.md): 1205 recommend
- [Claude Sonnet](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-sonnet.md): 854 recommend
- [DeepSeek V4 Flash](https://hackerapproved.com/p/deepseek-v4-flash.md): 828 recommend
- [Fable](https://hackerapproved.com/p/fable.md): 823 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Hy3 LLM", https://hackerapproved.com/p/hy3-llm/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).