Model comparison

Hy3 vs Ministral 3B

Hy3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.2 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 2.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Hy3's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

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Hy3 Tencent

44.2

Rank #79 Confirmed

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

26.2

Rank #338 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Hy3 leads 40.8 to 10.4.
  • Ministral 3B is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.10 per million input/output tokens, against $0.13 / $0.53 for Hy3.
  • Hy3 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

Hy3 and Ministral 3B specifications
Hy3Ministral 3B
ProviderTencentMistral AI
Noometry Index44.226.2
Released2026-07-062024-10-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K131K
Max output128K262K
Input $ / M tokens$0.13$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$0.53$0.10
Results tracked196

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Hy3: 46.8 (#63), Ministral 3B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkHy3Ministral 3B
LMArena WebDev1508—
LMArena Coding1464—

Reasoning Hy3 leads

Hy3: 26.1 (#136), Ministral 3B: 18.4 (#282)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkHy3Ministral 3B
NYT Connections (extended)41.2%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1447—
DTBench—51.7%
LMCA—5.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—118.1

Math Hy3 leads

Hy3: 40.1 (#93), Ministral 3B: 26.6 (#258)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkHy3Ministral 3B
LMArena Math1475—
MATH Level 5—14.4%

Knowledge Hy3 leads

Hy3: 40.8 (#114), Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#302)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkHy3Ministral 3B
GPQA Diamond—25.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.3%
LMArena Expert1460—

Multilingual Not comparable

Hy3: 53.5 (#65), Ministral 3B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkHy3Ministral 3B
LMArena Non-English1426—
LMArena Chinese1493—
LMArena French1461—
LMArena German1439—
LMArena Japanese1392—
LMArena Korean1395—
LMArena Russian1432—
LMArena Spanish1456—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Hy3: 75.1 (#70), Ministral 3B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkHy3Ministral 3B
LMArena Instruction Following1426—

Long Context Not comparable

Hy3: 44.1 (#75), Ministral 3B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkHy3Ministral 3B
LMArena Longer Query1442—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Hy3: 62.2 (#81), Ministral 3B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkHy3Ministral 3B
LMArena Text1439—
LMArena Creative Writing1402—
LMArena Multi-Turn1436—

Frequently asked questions

Is Hy3 better than Ministral 3B?

Hy3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.2 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 2.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Hy3's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Hy3 or Ministral 3B?

Ministral 3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens; Hy3 lists at $0.13 and $0.53.

Which has the bigger context window?

Hy3 does, with 262K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Hy3 and Ministral 3B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Hy3 has 19 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.

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