Hy3 vs Qwen3.8 Max: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Hy3 is developed by Tencent, while Qwen3.8 Max comes from Alibaba. Hy3 was released in July 2026, and Qwen3.8 Max followed a month later in August 2026. Qwen3.8 Max is the larger model at roughly 2.4 trillion parameters, against 295 billion for Hy3.
We have 31 benchmark results for Hy3 and 2 benchmark results for Qwen3.8 Max, but they were measured on different benchmarks, so there is no like-for-like scoreboard.
Qwen3.8 Max is available through an API at $2.50 per million input tokens with a 1M-token context window. We do not track a hosted API for Hy3, so pricing and context cannot be compared directly.
| Characteristic | Hy3 | Qwen3.8 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Tencent | Alibaba |
| Release Date | July 6, 2026 | August 2, 2026 |
| Parameters | 295B | 2.4T |
| Multimodal | No | Yes |
| Context (input) | — | 1.0M |
| Context (output) | — | 131K |
| Input Price / 1M | — | $2.50 |
| Output Price / 1M | — | $6.25 |
| Average Score | 57.1% | 93.0% |
Verdict
Qwen3.8 Max leads in 1 out of 2 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Hy3 — 0.6, Qwen3.8 Max — 0.9.
Qwen3.8 Max is newer: released 8/2/2026 vs 7/6/2026.
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