Is Hy3 better than Llama 4 Maverick?

On accuracy they are statistically tied: Hy3 scored 58.8% and Llama 4 Maverick 59.0% on the same 80 questions from open datasets. Similar accuracy; Llama 4 Maverick costs less per question.

Which is cheaper, Hy3 or Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper: $0.00059 per question as billed, against $0.0012. List prices: Hy3 $0.132 in / $0.528 out, Llama 4 Maverick $0.1875 in / $0.6525 out per million tokens.

Which is faster, Hy3 or Llama 4 Maverick?

Hy3 is faster at 96 output tokens per second, against 13. Time to first token: 1.7 s for Hy3, 0.7 s for Llama 4 Maverick.

Which has the larger context window, Hy3 or Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick, with 524k tokens against 262k.

Head to head · tested 27 Oct 2026

Hy3 vs Llama 4 Maverick: accuracy, speed and price

Similar accuracy; Llama 4 Maverick costs less per question.

TencentHy358.8% score · #41$0.0012 per question96 tok/s

MetaLlama 4 Maverick59.0% score · #40$0.00059 per question13 tok/s

Verdict

Built from the measurements below

Accuracy is too close to call: Hy3 scored 58.8% and Llama 4 Maverick 59.0% on the same 80 questions, a gap within what chance alone could produce.
Llama 4 Maverick is 2.1× cheaper per question as billed ($0.00059 vs $0.0012), reasoning tokens included.
Hy3 generates text 7.2× faster: 96 tokens per second against 13.
Llama 4 Maverick starts answering sooner: 0.7 s to the first token, against 1.7 s for Hy3.
Llama 4 Maverick accepts more context: 524k tokens against 262k.

Which should you choose?

Choose Hy3 for faster streaming and more hosts to choose from on OpenRouter (5 against 3). Choose Llama 4 Maverick for the lower cost per correct answer ($0.001 against $0.0021), a quicker first token, shorter outputs (about 784 tokens per question against 2,355) and a 524k-token context window.

Accuracy gap -0.2 points (z = -0.03). A winner is called only when z is at least 1.96, the usual 95% threshold. Speed, latency and price need a 10% margin.

Head to head

Same questions, same prompt, same API

Measure	Hy3	Llama 4 Maverick	Edge
Verification scoreHigher is better	58.8%	59.0%	Too close to call
Cost per questionLower is better	$0.0012	$0.00059	Llama 4 Maverick
Output speedHigher is better	96	13	Hy3
Time to first tokenLower is better	1.7 s	0.7 s	Llama 4 Maverick
End-to-end response timeLower is better	9.0 s	27.9 s	Hy3
Tokens per questionLower is better	2,355	784	Llama 4 Maverick
Context windowHigher is better	262k	524k	Llama 4 Maverick

Side by side

Bars are scaled to the larger of the two values. The winner on each measure is marked in bold.

Every measure

Hy3 first, Llama 4 Maverick second

Verification scorehigher is better

Hy358.8%

Llama 4 Maverick59.0%

Cost per questionlower is better

Hy3$0.0012

Llama 4 Maverick$0.00059

Output speedhigher is better

Hy396

Llama 4 Maverick13

Time to first tokenlower is better

Hy31.7 s

Llama 4 Maverick0.7 s

End-to-end response timelower is better

Hy39.0 s

Llama 4 Maverick27.9 s

Tokens per questionlower is better

Hy32,355

Llama 4 Maverick784

Context windowhigher is better

Hy3262k

Llama 4 Maverick524k

Score vs. cost per question

Both models in color, every other model in grey

Results by subject and dataset

Questions answered correctly. Small samples: a gap of one or two questions is noise.

Subject	Questions	Hy3	Llama 4 Maverick
Science	30	20/30	18/30
Engineering	15	6/15	6/14
Medicine	11	4/11	5/10
Economics	9	7/9	7/9
Law	6	4/6	3/6
Humanities & social science	9	6/9	7/9
SuperGPQA dataset	50	22/50	23/49
MMLU-Pro dataset	30	25/30	23/29

Specifications and pricing

From OpenRouter's catalogue, plus the leaderboard's test dates

Specification	Hy3	Llama 4 Maverick
Creator	Tencent	Meta
Released	6 Jul 2026	5 Apr 2025
Weights	Open weights	Open weights
Reasoning	Yes	No
Input	text	text, image
Output	text	text
Context window	262k tokens	524k tokens
Knowledge cutoff	—	31 Aug 2024
List price in / out per 1M	$0.132 / $0.528	$0.1875 / $0.6525
Blended price per 1M (3:1)	$0.23	$0.30
Cheapest host	Tencent · $0.0825 / $0.33	DigitalOcean · $0.1875 / $0.6525
Hosts on OpenRouter	5	3
Last tested	26 Oct 2026	25 Oct 2026

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Hy3 vs Llama 4 Maverick: frequently asked questions

Is Hy3 better than Llama 4 Maverick?: On accuracy they are statistically tied: Hy3 scored 58.8% and Llama 4 Maverick 59.0% on the same 80 questions from open datasets. Similar accuracy; Llama 4 Maverick costs less per question.
Which is cheaper, Hy3 or Llama 4 Maverick?: Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper: $0.00059 per question as billed, against $0.0012. List prices: Hy3 $0.132 in / $0.528 out, Llama 4 Maverick $0.1875 in / $0.6525 out per million tokens.
Which is faster, Hy3 or Llama 4 Maverick?: Hy3 is faster at 96 output tokens per second, against 13. Time to first token: 1.7 s for Hy3, 0.7 s for Llama 4 Maverick.
Which has the larger context window, Hy3 or Llama 4 Maverick?: Llama 4 Maverick, with 524k tokens against 262k.