Hunyuan Hy3 PreviewvsStep 3.5 Flash
Hunyuan Hy3 Preview leads the overall Podium Score by 1.0 points (71.0 vs 70.0).Category wins: Hunyuan Hy3 Preview 0 — 0 Step 3.5 Flash.Hunyuan Hy3 Preview is the cheaper pick ($3/M vs $3/M per 1M output tokens). Hunyuan Hy3 Preview is faster (50 t/s vs 50 t/s).
Key VerdictAggregated 2026 Benchmark Analysis
Hunyuan Hy3 Preview is rated higher overall with a Podium Score of 71.0 (vs 70.0 for Step 3.5 Flash). Both models show closely matched capabilities across domain benchmarks.
Coding & Engineering
Comparable
Inference Speed
Hunyuan Hy3 Preview (50 t/s)
Cost Efficiency
Hunyuan Hy3 Preview ($3/M/M)
| Metric | Hunyuan Hy3 Preview | Step 3.5 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Podium Score | 71.0 ▲ | 70.0 |
| Arena Elo | — | — |
| Intelligence Index | — | — |
| Coding | — | — |
| Math | — | — |
| Reasoning | — | — |
| Agentic | — | — |
| Knowledge | — | — |
| Multimodal | — | — |
| Long-context | — | — |
| Output speed | 50 t/s | 50 t/s |
| Output price | $3/M | $3/M |
| Context window | 128K | 128K |
Scores aggregated from five independent leaderboards. See Methodology. More head-to-heads: Hunyuan Hy3 vs Claude Mythos · Hunyuan Hy3 vs Claude Fable 5 · Hunyuan Hy3 vs Kimi K3 · Hunyuan Hy3 vs Claude Opus 5