What hardware do you need to run Tencent Hy3?
Tencent Hy3 at Q4_K_M is 182 GB of weights, with a context ceiling of 256k tokens. Not yet rated: released after our last ratings pass. Tencent's Apache-licensed flagship. Needs an Ultra-class machine.
Nothing on the list runs itAt 32k context it needs 193 GB, more than any machine here offers.
How good is it, really?
On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 it scores 26, which puts it in the Haiku-class band. In the same band as Anthropic's cheap, fast tier. Every current OpenAI model scores above this band. Score source. See the whole table.
- Summarising — not rated
- Translation — not rated
- Everyday coding — not rated
- Reasoning & maths — not rated
- Agentic work — not rated
What it costs either way
Renting the same model costs $0.083 per million input tokens and $0.33 per million output (OpenRouter, cheapest active endpoint, checked 2026-09-15). Buying a machine only beats that if you use it hard enough, for long enough, that the hardware price divides down below the rental bill.
The specifics
- Parameters
- 295B, of which 21B are active per token
- Quantisation
- Q4_K_M
- Weights on disk
- 182 GB
- KV cache
- 11 GB at 32k context — Plain grouped-query attention on all 80 layers.
- Maximum context
- 256k tokens (256k)
- Licence
- Apache 2.0
- Sources
- source 1