Model comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs Hy4 preview

Hy4 preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 43.1 on the Noometry Index.

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Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

43.1

Rank #100 Confirmed

Hy4 preview Tencent

45.3

Rank #73 Reported

Summary

  • The widest gap is in math, where Hy4 preview leads 55.7 to 42.0.
  • Hy4 preview is cheaper at $0.75 / $2.25 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $75 for Claude Opus 4.
  • Hy4 preview accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 200K.
  • Hy4 preview has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4 and Hy4 preview specifications
Claude Opus 4Hy4 preview
ProviderAnthropicTencent
Noometry Index43.145.3
Released2025-05-222026-08-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K1.05M
Max output32K64K
Input $ / M tokens$15$0.75
Output $ / M tokens$75$2.25
Results tracked563

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Category by category

Coding Hy4 preview leads

Claude Opus 4: 47.2 (#62), Hy4 preview: 51.6 (#38)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Hy4 preview
SWE-bench Verified70.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)67.6%—
Aider Polyglot72%—
LMArena WebDev—1632
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML43.7%—
LMArena Coding1442—
AlgoTune1.33—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 34.8 (#42), Hy4 preview: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Hy4 preview
Cybench38%—
DeepResearch Bench46.8%—
LMArena Search1127—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—

Reasoning Hy4 preview leads

Claude Opus 4: 27.3 (#121), Hy4 preview: 31.9 (#79)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Hy4 preview
ARC-AGI-28.6%—
SimpleBench58.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark74.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)—68.2%
ARC-AGI-135.7%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1399—
DTBench81.6%—
LMCA37.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index142.67—
ForecastBench61.1—

Math Hy4 preview leads

Claude Opus 4: 42.0 (#86), Hy4 preview: 55.7 (#42)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Hy4 preview
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202564.4%—
ProofBench—75%
Omni-MATH61.6%—
LMArena Math1390—
MATH Level 585%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 44.0 (#88), Hy4 preview: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Hy4 preview
GPQA Diamond76.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam10.7%—
MMLU-Pro87.5%—
Confabulations15.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)70.8%—
LMArena Expert1386—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 31.5 (#106), Hy4 preview: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Hy4 preview
LMArena Vision1192—
GeoBench49%—
VPCT38%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 48.8 (#138), Hy4 preview: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Hy4 preview
LMArena Non-English1362—
LMArena Chinese1386—
LMArena French1372—
LMArena German1391—
LMArena Japanese1331—
LMArena Korean1321—
LMArena Russian1392—
LMArena Spanish1389—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 77.1 (#28), Hy4 preview: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Hy4 preview
IFEval91.8%—
LMArena Instruction Following1406—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 39.6 (#172), Hy4 preview: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Hy4 preview
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—
LMArena Longer Query1422—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 61.2 (#89), Hy4 preview: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Hy4 preview
LMArena Text1377—
LMArena Creative Writing1387—
Short-Story Creative Writing83.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1580—
WildBench85.2%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1396—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4 better than Hy4 preview?

Hy4 preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 43.1 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4 or Hy4 preview?

Hy4 preview is cheaper. It lists at $0.75 per million input tokens and $2.25 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4 lists at $15 and $75.

Is Claude Opus 4 or Hy4 preview better for coding?

Hy4 preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 47.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Hy4 preview does, with 1.05M tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and Hy4 preview share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and Hy4 preview has 3.

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