Model comparison

GPT-5 vs Hy3

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 44.2 on the Noometry Index. Hy3 costs 24× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 OpenAI

50.9

Rank #45 Confirmed

Hy3 Tencent

44.2

Rank #79 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 scores higher in 6 categories and Hy3 in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where GPT-5 leads 69.5 to 44.1.
  • Hy3 is cheaper at $0.0825 / $0.33 per million input/output tokens, against $1.25 / $10 for GPT-5.
  • GPT-5 accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 262K.
  • Hy3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5 and Hy3 specifications
GPT-5Hy3
ProviderOpenAITencent
Noometry Index50.944.2
Released2025-08-072026-07-06
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K262K
Max output128K128K
Input $ / M tokens$1.25$0.0825
Output $ / M tokens$10$0.33
Results tracked6919

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 50.3 (#47), Hy3: 46.8 (#63)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Hy3
LMArena WebDev14181508
LMArena Coding14361464
SWE-bench Verified73.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)65%—
Aider Polyglot88%—
SciCode42.9%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML60.7%—
ALE-Bench1,162—
AlgoTune1.67—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5: 33.1 (#56), Hy3: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Hy3
Terminal-Bench49.6%—
GDPval34.8%—
Remote Labor Index1.7%—
DeepResearch Bench49.6%—
BALROG32.8%—
LMArena Search1133—
METR Time Horizons69.6%—

Reasoning GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 38.3 (#64), Hy3: 26.1 (#136)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Hy3
LMArena Hard Prompts14161447
ARC-AGI-29.9%—
SimpleBench56.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark72.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)—41.2%
ARC-AGI-165.7%—
CritPt12.6%—
Chess Puzzles37%—
EnigmaEval10.5%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles23%—
DTBench90.7%—
LMCA40%—
Epoch Capabilities Index150—
ForecastBench61.4—

Math GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 55.0 (#44), Hy3: 40.1 (#93)

Knowledge GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 56.6 (#43), Hy3: 40.8 (#114)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Hy3
LMArena Expert14191460
GPQA Diamond86.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam25.3%—
SimpleQA Verified50.1%—
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)79.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5: 46.8 (#13), Hy3: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Hy3
LMArena Vision1232—
GeoBench81%—
VPCT66%—

Multilingual Hy3 leads

GPT-5: 51.4 (#110), Hy3: 53.5 (#65)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Hy3
LMArena Non-English13971426
LMArena Chinese14221493
LMArena French14101461
LMArena German14161439
LMArena Japanese14091392
LMArena Korean13601395
LMArena Russian14061432
LMArena Spanish13991456

Instruction Following Hy3 leads

GPT-5: 73.8 (#113), Hy3: 75.1 (#70)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Hy3
LMArena Instruction Following13881426
IFEval87.5%—

Long Context GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 69.5 (#2), Hy3: 44.1 (#75)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Hy3
LMArena Longer Query13991442
Fiction.LiveBench97.2%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 63.4 (#65), Hy3: 62.2 (#81)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Hy3
LMArena Text14061439
LMArena Creative Writing13651402
LMArena Multi-Turn14261436
Short-Story Creative Writing86%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1627—
WildBench85.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 better than Hy3?

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 44.2 on the Noometry Index. Hy3 costs 24× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5 or Hy3?

Hy3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.0825 per million input tokens and $0.33 per million output tokens; GPT-5 lists at $1.25 and $10.

Is GPT-5 or Hy3 better for coding?

GPT-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 46.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5 does, with 400K tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 and Hy3 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Hy3 has 19.

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