vs
6:1
overall capability wins (0 ties across 7 scored). Hy4 Preview leads overall.
- Reasoning1:0
- Coding3:0
- Tool use1:0
- Pricing0:3
- Specs1:1
Verdict
Hy4 Preview leads coding (widest gap: +217.7 on WebDev Elo); Inkling-Small offers larger context (1.0M vs 1M); Inkling-Small is ~1.6x cheaper on a blended token basis than Hy4 Preview.
- Hy4 Preview leads coding (widest gap: +217.7 on WebDev Elo)
- Inkling-Small offers larger context (1.0M vs 1M)
- Inkling-Small is ~1.6x cheaper on a blended token basis than Hy4 Preview
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Hy4 Preview
- $1.46
- Inkling-Small
- $0.94
Inkling-Small is about 1.6x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Tencent
Thinking Machines
Family
Other
Other
License
Apache 2.0
Apache 2.0
Open weights
Yes
Yes
Release
Aug 28, 2026
Jul 30, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Tencent Cloud TokenHub
Tinker (ref.)
Modalities
text → text
text, image, audio → text
Specs
Context window
1M
1.0M
Max output
-
131K
Parameters
770B (49B act.)
276B (12B act.)
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.83
$0.58
Output $/1M
$2.50
$1.44
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$1.25
$0.79
Speed
tok/s
-
85
TTFT (s)
-
0.35
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
92.3
89.5
Humanity's Last Exam
—
33.3
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
—
33.2
AA-LCR v1.1
—
75.7
CritPt
—
8.3
MMMU-Pro
—
74.0
IFBench
—
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
80.2
SWE-bench Pro
65.7
55.9
SWE-bench Multilingual
82.9
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
85.4
55.1
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
—
49.7
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
64.3
—
WebDev Arena
1,624
1,407
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
1,405
| Metric | Hy4 Preview | Inkling-Small | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Tencent | Thinking Machines | — |
| Family | Other | Other | — |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 | — |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | — |
| Release | Aug 28, 2026 | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Tencent Cloud TokenHub | Tinker (ref.) | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text, image, audio → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 1M | 1.0M | B +49K |
| Max output | - | 131K | — |
| Parameters | 770B (49B act.) | 276B (12B act.) | A +494 |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.83 | $0.58 | B +$0.25 |
| Output $/1M | $2.50 | $1.44 | B +$1.06 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $1.25 | $0.79 | B +$0.46 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | - | 85 | — |
| TTFT (s) | - | 0.35 | — |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 92.3 | 89.5 | A +2.8 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 33.3 | — |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | — | 33.2 | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | 75.7 | — |
| CritPt | — | 8.3 | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | 74.0 | — |
| IFBench | — | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 80.2 | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | 65.7 | 55.9 | A +9.8 pts |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 82.9 | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 85.4 | 55.1 | A +30.3 pts |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | — | 49.7 | — |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | 64.3 | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | 1,624 | 1,407 | A +218 Elo |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | 1,405 | — |
Hy4 Preview
- Context
- 1M
- Parameters
- 770B (49B act.)
- Price
- $0.83 / $2.50
- Speed
- —
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Tencent Hy Team's Aug 28, 2026 open-weight flagship (770B MoE / 49B active, Apache 2.0) with a 1M context window and default high reasoning effort. Text-only instruct weights on Hugging Face; hosted API at $0.834/$2.501 per 1M tokens via TokenHub and OpenRouter.
Inkling-Small
- Context
- 1.0M / 131K out
- Parameters
- 276B (12B act.)
- Price
- $0.58 / $1.44
- Speed
- 85 tok/s · 0.35s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image, audio → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Efficient Inkling sibling (276B / 12B active MoE) — matches or beats Inkling on many benchmarks at ~¼ the size; Apache 2.0 weights with Tinker fine-tuning access.
Benchmark charts
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