Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4 vs Hy4 preview

Hy4 preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.6 to 40.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic

40.6

Rank #139 Confirmed

Hy4 preview Tencent

44.6

Rank #73 Reported

Summary

  • The widest gap is in math, where Hy4 preview leads 54.5 to 41.5.
  • Hy4 preview is cheaper at $0.83 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $3 / $15 for Claude Sonnet 4.
  • Hy4 preview accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 200K.
  • Hy4 preview has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4 and Hy4 preview specifications
Claude Sonnet 4Hy4 preview
ProviderAnthropicTencent
Noometry Index40.644.6
Released2025-05-222026-08-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K1.05M
Max output64K64K
Input $ / M tokens$3$0.83
Output $ / M tokens$15$2.50
Results tracked583

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Category by category

Coding Hy4 preview leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 44.0 (#70), Hy4 preview: 51.4 (#36)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Hy4 preview
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)64.9%—
Aider Polyglot61.3%—
LMArena WebDev—1633
SciCode40%—
GSO4.9%—
WeirdML46.1%—
LMArena Coding1414—
ALE-Bench655.35—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 38.3 (#29), Hy4 preview: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Hy4 preview
TheAgentCompany33.1%—
Cybench35%—
DeepResearch Bench46.6%—
OSWorld43.9%—
METR Time Horizons62%—

Reasoning Hy4 preview leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 23.0 (#169), Hy4 preview: 30.6 (#75)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Hy4 preview
ARC-AGI-25.9%—
SimpleBench45.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73%—
NYT Connections (extended)—68.2%
ARC-AGI-140%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval3.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1372—
DTBench77.1%—
LMCA29%—
Epoch Capabilities Index141.69—
ForecastBench60.2—

Math Hy4 preview leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 41.5 (#71), Hy4 preview: 54.5 (#37)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Hy4 preview
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
ProofBench—75%
Omni-MATH60.2%—
LMArena Math1375—
MATH Level 584.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 41.6 (#99), Hy4 preview: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Hy4 preview
GPQA Diamond79.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam7.8%—
MMLU-Pro84.3%—
Confabulations13.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.3%—
GPQA (HELM)70.6%—
LMArena Expert1371—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 25.6 (#116), Hy4 preview: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Hy4 preview
LMArena Vision1191—
GeoBench37%—
VPCT34%—
MindCube44.8%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 46.9 (#151), Hy4 preview: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Hy4 preview
LMArena Non-English1333—
LMArena Chinese1351—
LMArena French1364—
LMArena German1331—
LMArena Japanese1301—
LMArena Korean1293—
LMArena Russian1355—
LMArena Spanish1356—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 71.8 (#141), Hy4 preview: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Hy4 preview
IFEval84%—
LMArena Instruction Following1375—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 33.6 (#254), Hy4 preview: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Hy4 preview
Fiction.LiveBench46.9%—
LMArena Longer Query1398—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 57.3 (#127), Hy4 preview: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Hy4 preview
LMArena Text1351—
LMArena Creative Writing1345—
Short-Story Creative Writing81.4%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1483—
WildBench83.8%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1376—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4 better than Hy4 preview?

Hy4 preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.6 to 40.6 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 4 or Hy4 preview?

Hy4 preview is cheaper. It lists at $0.83 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; Claude Sonnet 4 lists at $3 and $15.

Is Claude Sonnet 4 or Hy4 preview better for coding?

Hy4 preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.4 versus 44.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

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

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4 and Hy4 preview share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4 has 58 scored results on Noometry and Hy4 preview has 3.

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