Cost-per-task of US$0.57 with top-5 agentic performance makes Hy4 a strong price-performance option for agent workloads. Developers evaluating Chinese alternatives to US frontier models can compare it directly on Agent Arena's session-based leaderboard. The model is relevant to ASEAN teams building on Tencent's ecosystem, where Hunyuan integration is already common.
The gap between Hy4 and the next open-weights model is nearly 8 points on Pass @1, which resets assumptions about where free-weights agent performance stands relative to closed models. Teams selecting models for professional-work agents—consulting, finance, legal workflows—can use the Mercor APEX-Agents leaderboard to shortlist candidates by domain rather than headline scores. Comparisons against Kimi K3.1 Pro and Qwen3.8-Max make it a practical benchmark for China open-weights options.
The upgrade comes from post-training and perception rather than scale, which means the same 770B base now handles screenshots, charts and full desktop workflows — a shift that matters more for agent builders than raw leaderboard chasers. Missing third-party evaluations mean teams should run their own tests before switching, and the free quota until 15 Nov 2026 makes a hands-on comparison against DeepSeek or Qwen low-cost to attempt.