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Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Hy3

Hy3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.2 to 37.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Hy3 Tencent

44.2

Rank #79 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 0 categories and Hy3 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Hy3 leads 44.1 to 33.3.
  • Hy3 is cheaper at $0.0825 / $0.33 per million input/output tokens, against $0.10 / $0.40 for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 262K.
  • Hy3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteHy3
ProviderGoogleTencent
Noometry Index37.044.2
Released2025-06-172026-07-06
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M262K
Max output66K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.10$0.0825
Output $ / M tokens$0.40$0.33
Results tracked3319

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Category by category

Coding Hy3 leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173), Hy3: 46.8 (#63)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteHy3
LMArena Coding13731464
LMArena WebDev—1508
WeirdML35.2%—
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96), Hy3: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteHy3
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Hy3 leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205), Hy3: 26.1 (#136)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteHy3
LMArena Hard Prompts13771447
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)—41.2%
DTBench62.8%—
LMCA18.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.94—

Math Hy3 leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144), Hy3: 40.1 (#93)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteHy3
LMArena Math13731475
Omni-MATH48%—

Knowledge Hy3 leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210), Hy3: 40.8 (#114)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteHy3
LMArena Expert13731460
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114), Hy3: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteHy3
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Hy3 leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134), Hy3: 53.5 (#65)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteHy3
LMArena Non-English13691426
LMArena Chinese14041493
LMArena French13881461
LMArena German13891439
LMArena Japanese13591392
LMArena Korean13601395
LMArena Russian13731432
LMArena Spanish13961456

Instruction Following Hy3 leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168), Hy3: 75.1 (#70)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteHy3
LMArena Instruction Following13671426
IFEval81%—

Long Context Hy3 leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262), Hy3: 44.1 (#75)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteHy3
LMArena Longer Query13731442
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—

Writing & Preference Hy3 leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135), Hy3: 62.2 (#81)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteHy3
LMArena Text13791439
LMArena Creative Writing13671402
LMArena Multi-Turn13661436
WildBench81.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Hy3?

Hy3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.2 to 37.0 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Hy3?

Hy3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.0825 per million input tokens and $0.33 per million output tokens; Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite lists at $0.10 and $0.40.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Hy3 better for coding?

Hy3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.8 versus 38.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Hy3 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Hy3 has 19.

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