Hy3 vs Sakana Namazu: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Hy3 is developed by Tencent, while Sakana Namazu comes from Sakana AI. Hy3 was released in July 2026, and Sakana Namazu followed a month later in August 2026. Hy3 has a published size of about 295 billion parameters; Sakana AI has not disclosed the parameter count of Sakana Namazu.
We have 31 benchmark results for Hy3 and 3 benchmark results for Sakana Namazu, but they were measured on different benchmarks, so there is no like-for-like scoreboard.
Sakana Namazu is available through an API at $0.95 per million input tokens with a 256K-token context window. We do not track a hosted API for Hy3, so pricing and context cannot be compared directly.
| Characteristic | Hy3 | Sakana Namazu |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Tencent | Sakana AI |
| Release Date | July 6, 2026 | August 3, 2026 |
| Parameters | 295B | — |
| Multimodal | No | Yes |
| Context (input) | — | 256K |
| Context (output) | — | 256K |
| Input Price / 1M | — | $0.95 |
| Output Price / 1M | — | $4.00 |
| Average Score | 57.1% | 92.4% |
Verdict
Sakana Namazu leads in 1 out of 2 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Hy3 — 0.6, Sakana Namazu — 0.9.
Sakana Namazu is newer: released 8/3/2026 vs 7/6/2026.
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