Hy3 LLM
Shares rank 50 of 72 language models by recommenders
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.
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.
15 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 10
- criticize it
- 5
- approval share
- 67%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 10 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 2 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Very cheap per task
“Tencent's Hy3 model also got it right and did it in 283k tokens for $0.03”
Comment from 24 Jul 2026 in “Claude Opus 5” “Hy3 is the cheapest decent model on OpenRouter”
Comment from 29 May 2026 in “The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large margin” Strong for its size
“Same goes for Tencent Hy3 and MiniMax M3, which almost match Opus 4.6 levels”
Comment from 18 Jul 2026 in “Kimi K3 is now live” “Very impressive model for its size”
Comment from 9 Jul 2026 in “Hy3” Builds working HTML and SVG
“First model I've tried that gave me back HTML with a "Change Pelican Color" button”
Comment from 29 May 2026 in “The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large margin” “It actually rendered an SVG inline in the HTML page.”
Comment from 29 May 2026 in “The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large margin”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Felt weaker than later versions
“I wasn't very impressed with it a couple of months ago.”
Comment from 9 Jul 2026 in “Hy3” “Hy4 is a big improvement over h3”
Comment from 30 Aug 2026 in “Hy4 preview”
Other language models people recommend
The four most recommended other language models, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Opus | 3,331 | 2,746 | 55% | 13 | 4 mo156 owners | — |
| OpenAI GPT | 1,205 | 987 | 55% | 13 | 6 mo47 owners | — |
| Claude Sonnet | 854 | 586 | 59% | 13 | 6 mo46 owners | — |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 828 | 223 | 79% | 8 | 1 mo24 owners | Approved |
| Hy3 LLMThis page | 10 | 5 | 67% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
All 15 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Hy4 is a big improvement over h3”
“Tencent's Hy3 model also got it right and did it in 283k tokens for $0.03”
“Same goes for Tencent Hy3 and MiniMax M3, which almost match Opus 4.6 levels”
“I wasn't very impressed with it a couple of months ago.”
“it produced a working cube, but plain visuals”
“looks like it may be slightly better than v4 flash at same price point”
“Very impressive model for its size”
“Hy3-preview no implementation”
“I'm loving it as a post-training target.”
“It actually rendered an SVG inline in the HTML page.”
“got into thought loops and did stupid edits I didn't ask for more often than the local 31b model”
“If you Code open source projects anyway, might give it a spin.”
“we don't really know who developed this LLM but I'm going to feed all of my business's data to it”
“First model I've tried that gave me back HTML with a "Change Pelican Color" button”
“Hy3 is the cheapest decent model on OpenRouter”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.