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title: "Is Hy3 still undominated? · Undominated.ai"
canonical: https://undominated.ai/check/tencent__hy3/
description: "Hy3: whether it is still undominated. If anything in this catalogue is both better and cheaper, it is named, as of Oct 6, 2026. Unrated stays unrated."
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# Is Hy3 still undominated? · Undominated.ai

> Hy3: whether it is still undominated. If anything in this catalogue is both better and cheaper, it is named, as of Oct 6, 2026. Unrated stays unrated.

# Is Hy3 a good deal?

Whether anything in this catalogue beats Hy3 on both quality and price, and what you give up if it does. A computation on the current catalogue, not an opinion.

12 undominated of 145 · Oct 6, 2026

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As of Oct 6, 2026, Hy3 is dominated for Balanced on LMArena. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash scores 21.8 higher and costs 21% less, with a covering envelope. 12 of 145 rated, priced standard models are undominated.

[Inspect model evidence](/models/tencent__hy3/) [Compare differences & requirements](/compare/?models=tencent%2Fhy3%2Cdeepseek%2Fdeepseek-v4.1-flash)

 Current model

Hy3

 Balanced

3 tokens in per 1 out

 Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic
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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is both better and cheaper than Hy3: 21.8 points higher on LMArena and 21% less per million tokens, $0.049 cheaper at this mix.

 [Hy3](https://undominated.ai/models/tencent__hy3/)

LMArena Elo · higher is better

Scale starts at 1040 Elo

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1440.7

Effective $/M · Balanced · lower is better

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$0.231/M

 [DeepSeek V4.1 Flash](https://undominated.ai/models/deepseek__deepseek-v4.1-flash/)

LMArena Elo · higher is better

Scale starts at 1040 Elo

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1462.5

Effective $/M · Balanced · lower is better

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$0.182/M

Hy3 takes text, returns up to 128,000 tokens from a 262,144-token context, and is listed by 6 sellers.

Compared against 145 rated, priced models on this lens: 2 models dominate it and give up nothing, 1 more dominates it but gives something up. Hy3 scores 1440.7 at $0.231 per million tokens for this mix.

## Envelope-safe replacements

Each row scores at least as high, costs no more, and covers this model’s context, output, modalities, tools, and reasoning. A cheaper narrower model is not listed here.

| Model | LMArena | Effective $/M | You save |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [DeepSeek V4.1 Flash](/models/deepseek__deepseek-v4.1-flash/) | 1462.5 +21.8 | $0.182/M | 21% |
| [MiMo-V2.6-Flash](/models/xiaomi__mimo-v2.6-flash/) | 1456.4 +15.7 | $0.175/M | 24% |

## Higher score, lower price, named losses

Not a drop-in. The loss is why these are not a recommendation.

| Model | LMArena | Effective $/M | You give up |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Gemma 4 31B](/models/google__gemma-4-31b-it/) | 1443.4 | $0.205/M | max output |

 145 rated, priced standard models. Chartreuse is the frontier. Cobalt is the model you named, when it is not on the staircase.

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