As of August 20, 2026, Hy3 is 92% cheaper per million tokens than Qwen3.8 Max. Hy3 is $0.13 / $0.53 per million input/output tokens versus Qwen3.8 Max at $2.00 / $6.00. Sources: https://www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1300/78937 and https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/pricing
Sources: Tencent pricing (https://www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1300/78937); Qwen pricing (https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/pricing)
Hy3
Tencent
Input
$0.13
Output
$0.53
Qwen3.8 Max
Qwen
Input
$2.00
Output
$6.00
Token pricing, specs, and benchmarks side by side
Hy3Qwen3.8 MaxVerdict
Hy3 offers significantly lower pricing, while Qwen3.8 Max leads on benchmark performance. Your choice depends on whether cost efficiency or raw capability matters more for your use case.
As of August 20, 2026, Hy3 is 92% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. Hy3 costs $0.13 per million input tokens and $0.53 per million output tokens ($0.66 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). Qwen3.8 Max costs $2.00 / $6.00 per million tokens ($8.00 blended). Sources: https://www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1300/78937 and https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/pricing. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
Hy3 Tencent API pricing is $0.13 input and $0.53 output per million tokens via Tencent. Qwen3.8 Max Qwen API pricing is $2.00 input and $6.00 output per million tokens via Qwen. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
Qwen3.8 Max leads on SWE-bench Verified: Hy3 at 78% vs Qwen3.8 Max at 85.6%. SWE-bench measures real GitHub fixes; LiveCodeBench measures contest programming.
Hy3 supports a 262K token context window, while Qwen3.8 Max supports 1M tokens. Qwen3.8 Max offers a larger context window. Filling a larger window bills more input tokens, so the cheaper-per-million model can still cost more on long documents.
Qwen3.8 Max leads on 10 of 10 shared benchmarks versus Hy3's 0 wins. Check the comparison table for GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench, MMLU, HLE, and the other evals we track. Token price and benchmark score together are the usual LLM comparison, not either number alone.
Both Hy3 and Qwen3.8 Max are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, Hy3 has better economics on the blended 1M-in + 1M-out scale. For maximum capability, weight the benchmark table for your domain. Many production stacks route cheap models for drafts and a frontier model for the hard turn, which is usually cheaper than sending everything to the expensive API.
Yes. Call Hy3 through Tencent and Qwen3.8 Max through Qwen with separate API keys, or through a gateway that already wraps both. Keep prompts in tokens, not characters, when you estimate the invoice. AnotherWrapper templates can swap providers without rewriting auth and billing.
List rates are the latest published Tencent API pricing and Qwen API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1300/78937 and https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/pricing. Prompt caching, batch APIs, and committed-use discounts can change the invoice. Benchmark scores are from official publications and independent evals, updated as new numbers land.
Hy3 supports up to an unspecified number of output tokens per request, while Qwen3.8 Max supports up to an unspecified number of output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.
Neither Hy3 nor Qwen3.8 Max has published throughput data on this page yet. Throughput (tokens per second) and time-to-first-token are why two models with the same per-million-token price can still feel different in chat and agents.
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open Hy3 or Qwen3.8 Max from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.
This comparison covers API pricing, context window, throughput, and benchmark scores. Hy3 costs $0.13/M input and $0.53/M output. Qwen3.8 Max costs $2.00/M input and $6.00/M output.
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