Is Hy3 better than Qwen3.7 Plus?

On accuracy they are statistically tied: Hy3 scored 58.8% and Qwen3.7 Plus 60.0% on the same 80 questions from open datasets. Similar accuracy; Hy3 costs less per question.

Which is cheaper, Hy3 or Qwen3.7 Plus?

Hy3 is cheaper: $0.0012 per question as billed, against $0.0033. List prices: Hy3 $0.132 in / $0.528 out, Qwen3.7 Plus $0.32 in / $1.28 out per million tokens.

Which is faster, Hy3 or Qwen3.7 Plus?

Hy3 is faster at 96 output tokens per second, against 62. Time to first token: 1.7 s for Hy3, 1.1 s for Qwen3.7 Plus.

Which has the larger context window, Hy3 or Qwen3.7 Plus?

Qwen3.7 Plus, with 1M tokens against 262k.

Head to head · tested 27 Oct 2026

Hy3 vs Qwen3.7 Plus: accuracy, speed and price

Similar accuracy; Hy3 costs less per question.

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

QwenQwen3.7 Plus60.0% score · #38$0.0033 per question62 tok/s

Verdict

Built from the measurements below

Accuracy is too close to call: Hy3 scored 58.8% and Qwen3.7 Plus 60.0% on the same 80 questions, a gap within what chance alone could produce.
Hy3 is 2.6× cheaper per question as billed ($0.0012 vs $0.0033), reasoning tokens included.
Hy3 generates text 1.5× faster: 96 tokens per second against 62.
Qwen3.7 Plus starts answering sooner: 1.1 s to the first token, against 1.7 s for Hy3.
Qwen3.7 Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens against 262k.

Which should you choose?

Choose Hy3 for the lower cost per correct answer ($0.0021 against $0.0054), faster streaming, open weights you can run yourself and more hosts to choose from on OpenRouter (5 against 1). Choose Qwen3.7 Plus for a quicker first token and a 1M-token context window. The widest subject gap is in humanities & social science: Qwen3.7 Plus answered 9 of 9 correctly, Hy3 6 of 9. With so few questions per subject, treat this as a lead to test on your own prompts, not a result.

Accuracy gap -1.2 points (z = -0.16). 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	Qwen3.7 Plus	Edge
Verification scoreHigher is better	58.8%	60.0%	Too close to call
Cost per questionLower is better	$0.0012	$0.0033	Hy3
Output speedHigher is better	96	62	Hy3
Time to first tokenLower is better	1.7 s	1.1 s	Qwen3.7 Plus
End-to-end response timeLower is better	9.0 s	12.4 s	Hy3
Tokens per questionLower is better	2,355	2,462	Similar
Context windowHigher is better	262k	1M	Qwen3.7 Plus

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, Qwen3.7 Plus second

Verification scorehigher is better

Hy358.8%

Qwen3.7 Plus60.0%

Cost per questionlower is better

Hy3$0.0012

Qwen3.7 Plus$0.0033

Output speedhigher is better

Hy396

Qwen3.7 Plus62

Time to first tokenlower is better

Hy31.7 s

Qwen3.7 Plus1.1 s

End-to-end response timelower is better

Hy39.0 s

Qwen3.7 Plus12.4 s

Tokens per questionlower is better

Hy32,355

Qwen3.7 Plus2,462

Context windowhigher is better

Hy3262k

Qwen3.7 Plus1M

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	Qwen3.7 Plus
Science	30	20/30	19/30
Engineering	15	6/15	4/15
Medicine	11	4/11	6/11
Economics	9	7/9	7/9
Law	6	4/6	3/6
Humanities & social science	9	6/9	9/9
SuperGPQA dataset	50	22/50	21/50
MMLU-Pro dataset	30	25/30	27/30

Specifications and pricing

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

Specification	Hy3	Qwen3.7 Plus
Creator	Tencent	Qwen
Released	6 Jul 2026	3 Jun 2026
Weights	Open weights	—
Reasoning	Yes	Yes
Input	text	text, image
Output	text	text
Context window	262k tokens	1M tokens
Knowledge cutoff	—	—
List price in / out per 1M	$0.132 / $0.528	$0.32 / $1.28
Blended price per 1M (3:1)	$0.23	$0.56
Cheapest host	Tencent · $0.0825 / $0.33	Alibaba · $0.32 / $1.28
Hosts on OpenRouter	5	1
Last tested	26 Oct 2026	27 Oct 2026

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Hy3 vs Qwen3.7 Plus: frequently asked questions

Is Hy3 better than Qwen3.7 Plus?: On accuracy they are statistically tied: Hy3 scored 58.8% and Qwen3.7 Plus 60.0% on the same 80 questions from open datasets. Similar accuracy; Hy3 costs less per question.
Which is cheaper, Hy3 or Qwen3.7 Plus?: Hy3 is cheaper: $0.0012 per question as billed, against $0.0033. List prices: Hy3 $0.132 in / $0.528 out, Qwen3.7 Plus $0.32 in / $1.28 out per million tokens.
Which is faster, Hy3 or Qwen3.7 Plus?: Hy3 is faster at 96 output tokens per second, against 62. Time to first token: 1.7 s for Hy3, 1.1 s for Qwen3.7 Plus.
Which has the larger context window, Hy3 or Qwen3.7 Plus?: Qwen3.7 Plus, with 1M tokens against 262k.