Model comparison

Hy4 preview vs o3-mini

Hy4 preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 36.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Hy4 preview Tencent

45.3

Rank #73 Reported

o3-mini OpenAI

36.7

Rank #212 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in math, where Hy4 preview leads 55.7 to 28.1.
  • Hy4 preview is cheaper at $0.75 / $2.25 per million input/output tokens, against $1.10 / $4.40 for o3-mini.
  • Hy4 preview accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 200K.
  • Hy4 preview has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Hy4 preview and o3-mini specifications
Hy4 previewo3-mini
ProviderTencentOpenAI
Noometry Index45.336.7
Released2026-08-282024-12-20
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window1.05M200K
Max output64K100K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$1.10
Output $ / M tokens$2.25$4.40
Results tracked351

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Category by category

Coding Hy4 preview leads

Hy4 preview: 51.6 (#38), o3-mini: 40.8 (#132)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkHy4 previewo3-mini
Aider Polyglot—60.4%
LMArena WebDev1632—
SciCode—39.8%
GSO—1.3%
WeirdML—43.7%
LiveBench Coding—82.7%
LMArena Coding—1378
CadEval—54%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Hy4 preview: —, o3-mini: 29.6 (#84)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkHy4 previewo3-mini
Cybench—22.5%

Reasoning Hy4 preview leads

Hy4 preview: 31.9 (#79), o3-mini: 16.3 (#305)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkHy4 previewo3-mini
ARC-AGI-2—3%
SimpleBench—22.8%
NYT Connections (extended)68.2%—
ARC-AGI-1—34.5%
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—17%
LiveBench Reasoning—89.6%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1366
Mystery Game Puzzles—7%
DTBench—68.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—70.6%
LMCA—19%
Epoch Capabilities Index—140.34
ForecastBench—59.6
LiveBench—75.9%

Math Hy4 preview leads

Hy4 preview: 55.7 (#42), o3-mini: 28.1 (#244)

Knowledge Not comparable

Hy4 preview: —, o3-mini: 38.3 (#146)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkHy4 previewo3-mini
GPQA Diamond—77%
SimpleQA Verified—15.3%
Confabulations—17.9%
LMArena Expert—1364

Multilingual Not comparable

Hy4 preview: —, o3-mini: 45.7 (#164)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkHy4 previewo3-mini
LMArena Non-English—1319
LMArena Chinese—1379
LMArena French—1334
LMArena German—1303
LMArena Japanese—1286
LMArena Korean—1314
LMArena Russian—1304
LMArena Spanish—1321

Instruction Following Not comparable

Hy4 preview: —, o3-mini: 75.1 (#72)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkHy4 previewo3-mini
LiveBench Instruction Following—84.4%
LMArena Instruction Following—1337

Long Context Not comparable

Hy4 preview: —, o3-mini: 33.8 (#256)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkHy4 previewo3-mini
Fiction.LiveBench—50%
LMArena Longer Query—1343

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Hy4 preview: —, o3-mini: 50.3 (#182)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkHy4 previewo3-mini
LMArena Text—1337
LMArena Creative Writing—1286
Short-Story Creative Writing—61.7%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1320
LiveBench Language—50.7%

Frequently asked questions

Is Hy4 preview better than o3-mini?

Hy4 preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 36.7 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Hy4 preview or o3-mini?

Hy4 preview is cheaper. It lists at $0.75 per million input tokens and $2.25 per million output tokens; o3-mini lists at $1.10 and $4.40.

Is Hy4 preview or o3-mini better for coding?

Hy4 preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 40.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

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

How many benchmarks do Hy4 preview and o3-mini share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Hy4 preview has 3 scored results on Noometry and o3-mini has 51.

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