Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4 vs Hy3

Hy3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.2 to 40.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic

40.8

Rank #145 Confirmed

Hy3 Tencent

44.2

Rank #79 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher in 2 categories and Hy3 in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Hy3 leads 44.1 to 33.7.
  • Hy3 is cheaper at $0.0825 / $0.33 per million input/output tokens, against $3 / $15 for Claude Sonnet 4.
  • Hy3 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 200K.
  • Hy3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4 and Hy3 specifications
Claude Sonnet 4Hy3
ProviderAnthropicTencent
Noometry Index40.844.2
Released2025-05-222026-07-06
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K262K
Max output64K128K
Input $ / M tokens$3$0.0825
Output $ / M tokens$15$0.33
Results tracked5819

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Category by category

Coding Hy3 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 43.5 (#88), Hy3: 46.8 (#63)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Hy3
LMArena Coding14141464
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)64.9%—
Aider Polyglot61.3%—
LMArena WebDev—1508
SciCode40%—
GSO4.9%—
WeirdML46.1%—
ALE-Bench655.35—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 38.5 (#31), Hy3: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Hy3
TheAgentCompany33.1%—
Cybench35%—
DeepResearch Bench46.6%—
OSWorld43.9%—
METR Time Horizons62%—

Reasoning Hy3 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 22.9 (#187), Hy3: 26.1 (#136)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Hy3
LMArena Hard Prompts13721447
ARC-AGI-25.9%—
SimpleBench45.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73%—
NYT Connections (extended)—41.2%
ARC-AGI-140%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval3.1%—
DTBench77.1%—
LMCA29%—
Epoch Capabilities Index141.69—
ForecastBench60.2—

Math Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 43.3 (#80), Hy3: 40.1 (#93)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Hy3
LMArena Math13751475
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
Omni-MATH60.2%—
MATH Level 584.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Too close to call

Claude Sonnet 4: 41.8 (#108), Hy3: 40.8 (#114)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Hy3
LMArena Expert13721460
GPQA Diamond79.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam7.8%—
MMLU-Pro84.3%—
Confabulations13.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.3%—
GPQA (HELM)70.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 26.2 (#121), Hy3: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Hy3
LMArena Vision1191—
GeoBench37%—
VPCT34%—
MindCube44.8%—

Multilingual Hy3 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 46.7 (#156), Hy3: 53.5 (#65)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Hy3
LMArena Non-English13331426
LMArena Chinese13501493
LMArena French13631461
LMArena German13311439
LMArena Japanese13021392
LMArena Korean12911395
LMArena Russian13551432
LMArena Spanish13571456

Instruction Following Hy3 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 71.7 (#145), Hy3: 75.1 (#70)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Hy3
LMArena Instruction Following13761426
IFEval84%—

Long Context Hy3 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 33.7 (#259), Hy3: 44.1 (#75)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Hy3
LMArena Longer Query13981442
Fiction.LiveBench46.9%—

Writing & Preference Hy3 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 57.1 (#132), Hy3: 62.2 (#81)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Hy3
LMArena Text13511439
LMArena Creative Writing13451402
LMArena Multi-Turn13761436
Short-Story Creative Writing81.4%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1483—
WildBench83.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4 better than Hy3?

Hy3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.2 to 40.8 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 4 or Hy3?

Hy3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.0825 per million input tokens and $0.33 per million output tokens; Claude Sonnet 4 lists at $3 and $15.

Is Claude Sonnet 4 or Hy3 better for coding?

Hy3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.8 versus 43.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Hy3 does, with 262K tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4 and Hy3 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4 has 58 scored results on Noometry and Hy3 has 19.

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