Hunyuan API Pricing (November 2026)
Hunyuan API prices run from $0.0744 to $2.50 per million tokens across 10 current models. The cheapest is Hunyuan A13B at $0.0744 input and $0.298 output per million tokens. The flagship, Hunyuan Hy4, costs $0.834 input and $2.50 output per million tokens. Every rate below was read on Tencent (Hunyuan)'s own pricing page, on the date shown in its row.
| Model | Input /M | Cache read /M | Output /M | Batch in /M | Batch out /M | Context | Status | Checked |
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| Hunyuan A13B | $0.0744 | — | $0.298 | — | — | 224K | Current | 2026-10-29 |
Hunyuan Hy4 hy4 | $0.834 | $0.042−95% | $2.50 | — | — | 1M | Flagship | 2026-11-07 |
Hunyuan Hy3 hy3 | $0.132 | $0.033−75% | $0.528 | — | — | 256K | Current | 2026-10-29 |
| Tencent HY Vision 1.5 Instruct | $0.446 | — | $1.34 | — | — | 24K | Current | 2026-10-29 |
| Hunyuan T1 Vision | $0.446 | — | $1.34 | — | — | 28K | Current | 2026-10-29 |
| Hunyuan TurboS Vision | $0.446 | — | $1.34 | — | — | 32K | Current | 2026-10-29 |
| Hunyuan TurboS Vision Video | $0.446 | — | $1.34 | — | — | 24K | Current | 2026-10-29 |
| Hunyuan Translation | $0.178 | — | $0.536 | — | — | documented elsewhere | Current | 2026-10-29 |
| Hunyuan Translation Lite | $0.149 | — | $0.446 | — | — | documented elsewhere | Current | 2026-10-29 |
| Hunyuan Embedding | $0.104 | — | $0.104 | — | — | documented elsewhere | Current | 2026-10-29 |
Hunyuan Hy4 Preview hy4-preview | $0.834 | $0.042−95% | $2.50 | — | — | 1M | Preview | 2026-10-29 |
| Hunyuan 2.0 Think (HYThink) | $0.591 | — | $2.37 | — | — | 128K | Deprecated | 2026-10-29 |
| Hunyuan Large Role | $0.357 | — | $1.43 | — | — | 28K | Deprecated | 2026-10-29 |
| Hunyuan 2.0 Instruct | $0.473 | — | $1.18 | — | — | 128K | Deprecated | 2026-10-29 |
| Hunyuan T1 | $0.149 | — | $0.595 | — | — | documented elsewhere | Legacy | 2026-10-29 |
| Hunyuan TurboS | $0.119 | — | $0.298 | — | — | documented elsewhere | Legacy | 2026-10-29 |
| Hunyuan Lite | Free | — | Free | — | — | documented elsewhere | Legacy | 2026-10-29 |
US dollars per million tokens, list rates on Tencent (Hunyuan)'s own API. Cache read is the price of a cached input token. Batch is the asynchronous API, where the vendor offers one. The date in each row is when we last read it on the vendor's pricing page; it links to that page.
Hunyuan API monthly cost estimates
What light use (10M input + 2M output tokens a month), medium use (100M input + 20M output tokens a month), heavy use (1B input + 200M output tokens a month) costs on each current model, at list price with no caching and no batch discount.
| Model | Input / output per 1M | Light · 10M + 2M | Medium · 100M + 20M | Heavy · 1B + 200M |
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| Hunyuan A13B | $0.0744 / $0.298 | $1.34 | $13.39 | $134 |
| Hunyuan Hy3 | $0.132 / $0.528 | $2.38 | $23.76 | $238 |
| Hunyuan Translation Lite | $0.149 / $0.446 | $2.38 | $23.81 | $238 |
| Hunyuan Translation | $0.178 / $0.536 | $2.86 | $28.56 | $286 |
| Tencent HY Vision 1.5 Instruct, Hunyuan T1 Vision, Hunyuan TurboS Vision, Hunyuan TurboS Vision Video | $0.446 / $1.34 | $7.14 | $71.42 | $714 |
| Hunyuan Hy4 | $0.834 / $2.50 | $13.34 | $133 | $1,334 |
Prompt caching and the Batch API cut these figures; the next sections show by how much. For your own token counts, use the LLM API cost calculator.
Hunyuan API price history
Hunyuan API price changes and releases
Releases, pricing, and WeChat integration from Tencent's AI line. Sourced from Tencent Cloud, Tencent press, and Wikipedia — verified at publication.
Tencent Cloud Hunyuan API — the managed endpoint for the full Hunyuan catalog. Pricing for the 2.0 tiers is tiered by input length (≤32K / 32–128K); converted here from CNY at ¥6.7209/USD.
CONSUMER · WECHATThe Yuanbao (元宝) assistant — embedded inside WeChat, giving over a billion users access to Hunyuan (and DeepSeek) without a separate app. For end-user usage.
OPEN-WEIGHT · SELF-HOSTTencent open-sources select models — Hunyuan A13B and Hunyuan-Large MoE weights are published for self-hosting under Tencent's community license. Most served models stay API-only.
ByteDance (Doubao)
China's most-used AI app (Doubao, 155M WAU) with aggressive Volcano Ark pricing. Comparable China-residency profile; Tencent counters with WeChat-embedded distribution.
CHINESE PEERAlibaba (Qwen)
Broad open-weight Qwen catalog with 119-language coverage and self-host options. Tencent open-sources far less and leans on cloud + WeChat instead.
COST DISRUPTORDeepSeek
MIT open weights at the lowest cost-per-token. Tencent's Yuanbao even resells DeepSeek alongside Hunyuan — but Hunyuan recently raised prices while DeepSeek stayed cheap.
PRIMARY RIVALOpenAI
Frontier benchmarks + global ecosystem (GPT-5, ChatGPT). Unavailable in mainland China, where WeChat-embedded Hunyuan reaches a billion-plus users.
FRONTIER LEADERAnthropic
Leads coding + reasoning with Claude and zero-retention defaults. No China presence and far higher prices than the Hunyuan tiers.
GLM ARCHITECTZhipu (Z.ai / GLM)
The Beijing lab behind the GLM models, also operating internationally as Z.ai. Spun out of Tsinghua University in 2019, Zhipu ships strong coding/agentic models, multiple free tiers, and open weights — and was the first of China's "Six Tigers" to pursue an IPO. It also sits on the US Entity List.
Hunyuan API pricing FAQ
Practical questions about Hunyuan pricing, deployment, and data residency.
Q · 01 Which Hunyuan model should I start with?
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$0.132/$0.528), the cheaper general-purpose row. When you need 1M context or the largest model Tencent sells: Hy4 ($0.834/$2.5 list, billed at 50% off through December 31, 2026), which also accepts images; Hy4 Preview lists at the same rates. For the cheapest tokens or self-hosting: A13B ($0.0744/$0.298). Note that the models this answer used to recommend — Hunyuan 2.0 Think and Instruct, TurboS, and the free Lite tier — are no longer on Tencent's price list. See the use case picker above. Q · 02 Why did Hunyuan prices go up?
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Q · 03 Where is my data stored?
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tokenhub-intl.tencentcloudmaas.com) and Silicon Valley (tokenhub-us.tencentcloudmaas.com) — and its prices are the USD figures on this page. The Yuanbao assistant lives inside WeChat under Chinese data rules regardless. US export-control and procurement questions still apply for some buyers; self-hosting the open weights remains the strongest form of data control. Q · 04 Are Hunyuan models open-weight?
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Q · 05 How does Hunyuan reach so many users?
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Q · 06 How does Tencent compare to other Chinese labs?
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Tencent was founded in 1998 in Shenzhen by Pony Ma (Ma Huateng) and co-founders. It is China's largest technology company — owner of WeChat / Weixin, QQ, and the world's biggest games business — and is publicly listed (HKEX: 0700), reporting roughly $109 billion in 2025 revenue.
Tencent's AI line is the Hunyuan (混元) family, served through Tencent Cloud and the Yuanbao (元宝) consumer assistant. Yuanbao launched in May 2024 and was later embedded directly inside WeChat, giving Hunyuan a distribution path to over a billion users — a structural advantage no Western lab can match in China.
The current lineup is headed by Hy4 (770B total / 49B active, 1M context), open-sourced as Hy4 Preview in August 2026 and listed as a regular row beside the preview since November, sitting above Hy3, the cheaper 295B/21B model. Below them sit A13B — the cheapest row and the self-hostable one — plus vision, video, translation and embedding specialists. The older platform's models (Hunyuan 2.0 Think and Instruct, T1, TurboS, Lite) are off the price list: as of August 2026 Tencent has moved model serving to TokenHub, and the original platform adds no new models and takes no new customers, though existing ones keep running.
Pricing needs care here, because Tencent publishes two separate lists. Tencent Cloud International prices Hy4 Preview and Hy3 directly in USD, while the CN-region console prices them in yuan — and the two are not the same figure in two currencies. Converting the CNY card overstates the International rate by about 7%, so this site reads the USD list where one exists and converts only where it does not. Tencent also raised Hunyuan 2.0 list prices roughly 450% on March 13, 2026, and priced Hy4 Preview at 6.3x the Hy3 input rate — two upward moves in a market racing to the bottom, which we flag honestly. A Hunyuan 3.0 generation is planned for 2026.
The trade-offs: Tencent Cloud is a China-hosted service, so the direct API stores data in mainland China, and US export-control / procurement questions apply. Versus ByteDance's Doubao it leads on super-app reach via WeChat; versus Alibaba's Qwen and DeepSeek it open-sources less and recently moved prices up rather than down.