Model comparison

Hy3 vs Mistral Medium

Hy3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.2 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 17 shared benchmarks.

Hy3

Tencent

44.2

Rank #79 Confirmed

Mistral Medium

Mistral AI

36.3

Rank #218 Confirmed

Summary

They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Hy3 scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral Medium in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in knowledge, where Hy3 leads 40.8 to 25.0.
Hy3 is cheaper at $0.0825 / $0.33 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium.

Side by side

Hy3 and Mistral Medium specifications
	Hy3	Mistral Medium
Provider	Tencent	Mistral AI
Noometry Index	44.2	36.3
Released	2026-07-06	2023-12-11
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	262K	262K
Max output	128K	262K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.0825	$1.50
Output $ / M tokens	$0.33	$7.50
Results tracked	19	36

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Category by category

Coding Hy3 leads

Hy3: 46.8 (#63), Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Hy3	Mistral Medium
LMArena Coding	1464	1434
FrontierCode	—	8%
LMArena WebDev	1508	—
SciCode	—	40.2%
WeirdML	—	43.7%
ALE-Bench	—	763.98

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Hy3: —, Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Hy3	Mistral Medium
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	—	37.7%

Reasoning Hy3 leads

Hy3: 26.1 (#136), Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Hy3	Mistral Medium
LMArena Hard Prompts	1447	1426
Kagi LLM Benchmark	—	50%
NYT Connections (extended)	41.2%	—
CritPt	—	0%
DTBench	—	75.5%
LMCA	—	26.1%
Surface Evolver Bench	—	26.9%

Math Hy3 leads

Hy3: 40.1 (#93), Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Hy3	Mistral Medium
LMArena Math	1475	1408
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	32.2%
ProofBench	—	9%
MATH Level 5	—	81.6%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)	—	0.3%

Knowledge Hy3 leads

Hy3: 40.8 (#114), Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Hy3	Mistral Medium
LMArena Expert	1460	1408
GPQA Diamond	—	59.5%
Humanity's Last Exam	—	4.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	—	22.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Hy3: —, Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Hy3	Mistral Medium
LMArena Vision	—	1172

Multilingual Hy3 leads

Hy3: 53.5 (#65), Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Hy3	Mistral Medium
LMArena Non-English	1426	1408
LMArena Chinese	1493	1447
LMArena French	1461	1459
LMArena German	1439	1432
LMArena Japanese	1392	1378
LMArena Korean	1395	1380
LMArena Russian	1432	1411
LMArena Spanish	1456	1433

Instruction Following Hy3 leads

Hy3: 75.1 (#70), Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Hy3	Mistral Medium
LMArena Instruction Following	1426	1398

Long Context Hy3 leads

Hy3: 44.1 (#75), Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Hy3	Mistral Medium
LMArena Longer Query	1442	1406

Writing & Preference Hy3 leads

Hy3: 62.2 (#81), Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Hy3	Mistral Medium
LMArena Text	1439	1424
LMArena Creative Writing	1402	1391
LMArena Multi-Turn	1436	1418
Short-Story Creative Writing	—	77.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Hy3 better than Mistral Medium?

Hy3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.2 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Hy3 or Mistral Medium?

Hy3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.0825 per million input tokens and $0.33 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

Is Hy3 or Mistral Medium better for coding?

Hy3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.8 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 262K tokens.

How many benchmarks do Hy3 and Mistral Medium share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Hy3 has 19 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.