Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Hy3

Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Hy3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (44.1 vs 44.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic

44.1

Rank #81 Confirmed

Hy3 Tencent

44.2

Rank #79 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4.5 scores higher in 5 categories and Hy3 in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Hy3 leads 40.1 to 32.3.
  • Hy3 is cheaper at $0.0825 / $0.33 per million input/output tokens, against $3 / $15 for Claude Sonnet 4.5.
  • Hy3 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 200K.
  • Hy3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Hy3 specifications
Claude Sonnet 4.5Hy3
ProviderAnthropicTencent
Noometry Index44.144.2
Released2025-09-292026-07-06
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K262K
Max output64K128K
Input $ / M tokens$3$0.0825
Output $ / M tokens$15$0.33
Results tracked7319

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 47.3 (#61), Hy3: 46.8 (#63)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Hy3
LMArena WebDev13931508
LMArena Coding14891464
SWE-bench Verified71.3%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)71.4%—
SWE-bench Multilingual67%—
SciCode44.7%—
GSO14.7%—
WeirdML47.7%—
ALE-Bench796.15—
AlgoTune1.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 38.3 (#32), Hy3: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Hy3
Terminal-Bench46.5%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard73.2%—
GDPval42.5%—
Remote Labor Index2.1%—
τ²-bench Airline72%—
τ²-bench Banking25.3%—
τ²-bench Retail72.4%—
τ²-bench Telecom84.9%—
Cybench60%—
DeepResearch Bench52.6%—
OSWorld62.9%—
LMArena Search1159—
METR Time Horizons67.4%—
Vending-Bench 23,839—

Reasoning Too close to call

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 26.9 (#125), Hy3: 26.1 (#136)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Hy3
NYT Connections (extended)37.3%41.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts14621447
ARC-AGI-213.6%—
SimpleBench54.3%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark57.9%—
ARC-AGI-163.7%—
CritPt1.1%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
EnigmaEval6%—
EBR-Bench2.4%—
Mystery Game Puzzles17%—
DTBench83.2%—
LMCA38.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index146.84—
ForecastBench61.9—

Math Hy3 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 32.3 (#216), Hy3: 40.1 (#93)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Hy3
LMArena Math14491475
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)23.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202577.8%—
ProofBench19%—
Omni-MATH55.3%—
MATH Level 597.7%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)15.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 48.4 (#76), Hy3: 40.8 (#114)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Hy3
LMArena Expert14821460
GPQA Diamond82.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam13.7%—
SimpleQA Verified30.7%—
MMLU-Pro86.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)68.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 34.8 (#89), Hy3: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Hy3
VPCT39.8%—
LMArena Document1450—

Multilingual Too close to call

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 53.4 (#69), Hy3: 53.5 (#65)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Hy3
LMArena Non-English14251426
LMArena Chinese14591493
LMArena French14581461
LMArena German14271439
LMArena Japanese13901392
LMArena Korean14031395
LMArena Russian14371432
LMArena Spanish14571456

Instruction Following Too close to call

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 75.0 (#78), Hy3: 75.1 (#70)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Hy3
LMArena Instruction Following14591426
IFEval85%—

Long Context Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 45.2 (#46), Hy3: 44.1 (#75)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Hy3
LMArena Longer Query14761442

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 66.5 (#34), Hy3: 62.2 (#81)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Hy3
LMArena Text14391439
LMArena Creative Writing14421402
LMArena Multi-Turn14651436
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1678—
WildBench85.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4.5 better than Hy3?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Hy3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (44.1 vs 44.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Hy3?

Hy3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.0825 per million input tokens and $0.33 per million output tokens; Claude Sonnet 4.5 lists at $3 and $15.

Is Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Hy3 better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (47.3 vs 46.8); test both on your own repository before choosing.

Which has the bigger context window?

Hy3 does, with 262K tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Hy3 share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4.5 has 73 scored results on Noometry and Hy3 has 19.

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