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Hy4 Preview vs Qwen3.8 Max

Compare Hy4 Preview from Hunyuan and Qwen3.8 Max from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

HunyuanHy4 PreviewQwenQwen3.8 Max
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Hy4 Preview
Hunyuan · text → text

Hy4 Preview is Tencent Hunyuan’s large language model for agents, coding, office automation, and complex tool use.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$0.845 /M
Output$2.535 /M
Cache read$0.0423 /M
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Qwen3.8 Max
Qwen · text, image, video → text

Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen's next-generation flagship large language model, featuring a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 2.4 trillion parameters. It achieves another breakthrough in encoding depth, enabling it to handle more complex engineering-grade projects and long-term autonomous development; collaborative agent capabilities are significantly enhanced, performing more confidently in multi-tool orchestration and end-to-end delivery; visual understanding is comprehensively improved, with more sensitive and accurate chart reasoning, document parsing, and multimodal perception. Continuing the 1-million-context window, reasoning modes, and a complete tool ecosystem, it continues to evolve at a higher level of intelligence.

Input$1.69 /M
Output$5.07 /M
Cache read$0.169 /M

Pricing & Specifications

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

Hy4 Preview
Qwen3.8 Max
Input /M
$0.845
$1.69
Output /M
$2.535
$5.07
Cache read /M
$0.0423
$0.169
Context length
1,048,576
1,000,000
Max output
64,000
131,072
Time to First Token
3.5 s
24.5 s
Throughput
24.7 tok/s
24.2 tok/s
Modalities
text
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
August 28, 2026
August 3, 2026

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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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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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

WebDev Arena
hy4-previewqwen3.8-max
15201580164017001760
Overall
16231670
React
16411679
HTML
16101626
Gaming
17021736
Simulations
16671686
Data analytics
15491615

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

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

Hy4 Preview
$88.73 /mo
Qwen3.8 Max
$177 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Hy4 Preview, Qwen3.8 Max?

Hy4 Preview: $2.535/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

Which responds faster?

Hy4 Preview: 3.5s 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 1,048,576 and Qwen3.8 Max accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 64,000 tokens on Hy4 Preview and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Hy4 Preview at 24.7 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max at 24.2 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; Qwen3.8 Max accepts text, image and video input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.

Can I call Hy4 Preview and Qwen3.8 Max 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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