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Tencent releases Hy4 with vision and computer use, at $0.834 per million input tokens
Tencent released Hy4 on November 4, 2026, its first Hy model with vision and computer use, priced at $0.834 per million input tokens and $2.501 per million output tokens. Vercel's changelog says "It also supports computer use in both command-line and graphical interfaces." Tencent says the weights will be open-sourced later.
- Changes reported
- 6
- listed below, each from a source we read
- We tested
- Not tested yet
- reported from sources; we did not run it ourselves
- Gaps we flag
- 4
- things we could not verify
- Sources
- 2
- 2 primary, linked below
What changed
| # | What the source says | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Vision for the first time: Tencent's announcement says Hy4 can read fine-grained image detail and complex charts, and Vercel lists image input alongside reasoning, tool calling and structured outputs. | Reported |
| 02 | Computer use for the first time, across command-line and graphical interfaces, with targeted training on software such as Blender and CAD and on workflows that span several applications, per Tencent. | Reported |
| 03 | Pricing per million tokens on Tencent's page: $0.042 cached input, $0.834 input and $2.501 output, the same API price as Hy4 preview. Vercel AI Gateway lists it as tencent/hy4 at 50% off through December 31, 2026, with a 1M-token context window. | Reported |
| 04 | Tencent-reported gains over Hy4 preview: 19.1% on GameDev, 9.8% on GameLogic, and a search hallucination rate cut from 15.76% to 5.45% in internal evaluations. | Reported |
| 05 | Availability: Tencent Cloud, OpenRouter and Tencent products including CodeBuddy, WorkBuddy, Yuanbao and ima. Weights are not out yet; Tencent says it plans to open-source them with a system card and vLLM and SGLang support, and a cheaper Hy4 flash is planned. | Reported |
| 06 | Who should look: teams wanting a low-cost model with image input and computer use for agents can try it now via OpenRouter or Vercel AI Gateway; anyone needing self-hosted weights should wait, since they are announced, not released. | Reported |
reported by the sourcemeasured or run by usnot verified
Primary source: Tencent Hy: Introducing Hy4. We are the fast, independent index; the vendor’s own page is the source of record for this release.
In the source’s words
“It also supports computer use in both command-line and graphical interfaces.”
“It can pick out fine detail in an image and read complex charts.”
What we have not verified
- We did not run Hy4 ourselves.
- All benchmark and evaluation figures (GameDev, GameLogic, hallucination rate, finance rankings) are Tencent's internal or partner evaluations; we did not reproduce them.
- Model weights, license terms and the system card are not published yet, so we cannot confirm parameter count or license.
- Tencent's page is dated November 4, 2026 while Vercel's changelog entry is dated November 3, 2026; we list the earlier date as the source time.
This brief is Reported: written from the sources below, not from running the release ourselves.
Sources
- Tencent Hy: Introducing Hy4primary source · fetched 2026-11-04
- Vercel changelog: Tencent Hy4 on AI Gatewayprimary source · fetched 2026-11-04
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