Models

Hy4 Preview vs Kimi K3

Compare Hy4 Preview from Hunyuan and Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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Hy4 Preview
Hunyuan · text → text

Hy4 preview has a total of 770B parameters and 49B active parameters, and is primarily optimized for agent, coding, and productivity scenarios. It strengthens understanding, planning, tool invocation, and sustained execution capabilities for complex tasks. Compared with the previous generation, Hy4 preview further improves multi-step agents, code development, and productivity tasks, offering better task decomposition, context continuity, instruction following, and long-horizon execution. In coding scenarios, it further enhances code understanding, generation, modification, and the handling of complex engineering tasks; in productivity scenarios, it focuses on improving document processing, information analysis, office automation, game development, webpage generation, and cross-tool collaboration. Hy4 preview is suitable for coding agents, complex tool invocation, and various agent workflows that require multi-step planning and sustained execution, providing more reliable task completion for complex real-world business scenarios.

Input$0.85 /M
Output$2.54 /M
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Kimi K3
Moonshot AI · text, image, video → text

Kimi K3 is Kimi’s flagship model for long-horizon coding and end-to-end knowledge work, with a 1M-token context window and industry-leading intelligence.

Input$3.00 /M
Output$15.00 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Hy4 Preview
Kimi K3
Input /M
$0.85
$3.00
Output /M
$2.54
$15.00
Cache read /M
$0.04
$0.30
Context length
1,024,000
1,048,576
Max output
64,000
1,048,576
Time to First Token
4.4 s
0.9 s
Throughput
19.0 tok/s
73.1 tok/s
Modalities
text
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
thinkingfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
Released
August 28, 2026
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Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Hy4 Preview
$88.73 /mo
Kimi K3
$405 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Hy4 Preview, Kimi K3?

Hy4 Preview: $2.54/M output tokens; Kimi K3: $15.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

Which responds faster?

Kimi K3: 0.9s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

Hy4 Preview accepts 1,024,000 and Kimi K3 accepts 1,048,576 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 64,000 tokens on Hy4 Preview and 1,048,576 tokens on Kimi K3.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Kimi K3 at 73.1 tok/s and Hy4 Preview at 19.0 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Hy4 Preview accepts text input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking; Kimi K3 accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call Hy4 Preview and Kimi K3 with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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