Hy4 preview
Shares rank 44 of 72 language models by recommenders
People recommend Hy4 preview as a cheap model on the intelligence-price frontier, with strong reasoning traces for its price. Critics say it trails DeepSeek and is often unusable due to rate limits and timeouts.
People recommend Hy4 preview as a cheap model on the intelligence-price frontier, with strong reasoning traces for its price. Critics say it trails DeepSeek and is often unusable due to rate limits and timeouts.
15 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 11
- criticize it
- 4
- approval share
- 73%
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: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 11 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 2.8 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
Cheap for its quality
“I believe it's on the intelligence/price pareto frontier.”
Comment from 28 Aug 2026 in “Hy4 Preview” “it's relatively cheap with a 5% cache cost”
Comment from 29 Aug 2026 in “Hy4 preview” “Hy3 is so cheap. So this is great.”
Comment from 28 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 |
| Hy4 previewThis page | 11 | 4 | 73% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
13 of the 16 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“some of us are crazy about Hy4-preview & MiMo2.6-Pro”
“Hy4 is a big improvement over h3 but still below Deepseek pro”
“it'll also do things like, write an ISIS press release, or similar.”
“This is a remarkable coherent and clear reasoning trace.”
“The most interesting use I've found for them so far is strictly as a novelty.”
“This is actually pretty good!”
“didn't got much useful out of this model as a coding agent”
“Hy4 has nothing to show off.”
“it keeps timing out/rate limiting, so the current provider(s) are unusable”
“it's relatively cheap with a 5% cache cost”
“I believe it's on the intelligence/price pareto frontier.”
“Hy3 is so cheap. So this is great.”
“This difference to me seems very marginal.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.