Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Hy3

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 44.2 on the Noometry Index. Hy3 costs 69× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.6's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.2

Rank #20 Confirmed

Hy3 Tencent

44.2

Rank #79 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 8 categories and Hy3 in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 57.8 to 26.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 92.1% for Claude Opus 4.6 and 41.2% for Hy3.
  • Hy3 is cheaper at $0.0825 / $0.33 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.6.
  • Claude Opus 4.6 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
  • Hy3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Hy3 specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Hy3
ProviderAnthropicTencent
Noometry Index58.244.2
Released2026-02-042026-07-06
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M262K
Max output128K128K
Input $ / M tokens$5$0.0825
Output $ / M tokens$25$0.33
Results tracked6819

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20), Hy3: 46.8 (#63)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Hy3
LMArena WebDev15471508
LMArena Coding15361464
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.1 (#4), Hy3: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Hy3
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
Cybench93%—
DeepResearch Bench55.3%—
GBAEval44.1%—
LMArena Search1253—
METR Time Horizons78.9%—
Vending-Bench 28,018—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.8 (#23), Hy3: 26.1 (#136)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Hy3
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%41.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts15271447
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
Chess Puzzles17%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA55.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index155.24—
ForecastBench60—

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 63.0 (#31), Hy3: 40.1 (#93)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.9 (#26), Hy3: 40.8 (#114)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Hy3
LMArena Expert15461460
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74), Hy3: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Hy3
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6), Hy3: 53.5 (#65)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Hy3
LMArena Non-English14891426
LMArena Chinese15511493
LMArena French15131461
LMArena German15021439
LMArena Japanese14841392
LMArena Korean14641395
LMArena Russian14971432
LMArena Spanish15101456

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4), Hy3: 75.1 (#70)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Hy3
LMArena Instruction Following15231426

Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Hy3: 44.1 (#75)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Hy3
LMArena Longer Query15201442
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10), Hy3: 62.2 (#81)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Hy3
LMArena Text15031439
LMArena Creative Writing15051402
LMArena Multi-Turn15131436
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Hy3?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 44.2 on the Noometry Index. Hy3 costs 69× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.6's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.6 or Hy3?

Hy3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.0825 per million input tokens and $0.33 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.6 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Hy3 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.2 versus 46.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.6 does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Hy3 share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Hy3 has 19.

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