AI BriefingMysterious Hy3 LLM Dominates OpenRouter Model Rankings by a Wide Margin
Key point
Tencent's Hy3 model has surpassed Claude to take an overwhelming No. 1 spot on OpenRouter's usage rankings.
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According to the latest data from OpenRouter, Tencent's newly released Hy3 preview model has taken the top spot in the rankings by token usage, significantly outpacing established popular models like Claude.
Hy3 was recently released as open source, and along with DeepSeek V4 Flash, it is identified as a model whose usage has surged rapidly. In terms of performance, it doesn't reach top-tier models like Claude Opus 4.7 or GPT 5.5, but it maintains a level on par with other Chinese open source models.
One of the key factors behind this popularity is its overwhelming price competitiveness. Hy3 preview's input token price is $0.066 per 1M tokens, which is even cheaper than the current top-ranked model, DeepSeek V4 Flash ($0.10/1M).
Hy3 is making its presence felt in the market, recording high usage not only in the coding agent field but across various other domains as well.
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