Tencent
Updated May 2026Hunyuan
Tencent's open and multimodal foundation model stack
Hunyuan is Tencent's broad foundation-model program spanning text, image, video, 3D, and agent workloads. Its recent direction emphasizes open MoE models, long context, hybrid fast/slow reasoning, and practical integration with agent frameworks. It is an important family for understanding how Chinese platform companies are competing on open weights, multimodality, and ecosystem integration.
Variants
5
Best at
open MoE releases
Max context
256K
tokens
Pricing
Open weights
$0
per self-hosted model weights
Tencent Cloud
varies
per TokenHub usage
Variants
Sort the table by context window or cost to find the right variant. Click any version below for a battle card with ranks, pricing notes, and official links.
| Modalities | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Hy3 Preview / Hunyuan 3 hy3-preview | 256K | varies / varies | 2026 | textcode |
Hunyuan-A13B hunyuan-a13b | 256K | varies / varies | 2025 | textcode |
Hunyuan-Large hunyuan-large | 256K | varies / varies | 2024 | textcode |
Hunyuan Video hunyuan-video | — | varies / varies | 2024 | video |
Hunyuan3D / World hunyuan3d-world | — | varies / varies | 2025 | visionvideo |
Battle card
Context rank
#1
within Hunyuan
Capability rank
#1
modalities + reasoning
Weights
Open
self-hostable if licensed
Best fights to pick
- agent workflows
- long-context reasoning
- coding assistants
- open-model evaluation
Rankings are Tendril directory ranks, computed from the model data shown here. Public benchmark leaderboards change often, so official docs and current benchmark pages should be checked before buying or deploying.
Learn
Lessons about this model
Structured lessons that cover Hunyuan directly or put it in context alongside its rivals.
Hunyuan: Family Map
Hunyuan: Flagship Picker
Hunyuan: Cost And Context
Hunyuan: Reasoning Mode
Hunyuan: Multimodal Workflows
Hunyuan: Coding And Software Tasks
Hunyuan: Agents And Tool Use
Hunyuan: Local Or Private Deployment
Hunyuan: Benchmarks And Reality Checks
Hunyuan: Safety And Limits
Hunyuan: Prompt Recipes
Hunyuan: Industry Use Cases
Hunyuan: Compare Against Rivals
Hunyuan: Build A Mini Workflow
Hunyuan: Capstone Selection Memo
Check yourself
Quizzes
Short, mixed-difficulty quiz sets on Hunyuan and its model family.
Hunyuan Model Family Quiz
5 questions
A short quiz on where Hunyuan fits, which variants matter, and how to choose it responsibly.
Start quiz →Hands-on
Try these prompts
Ready-made prompts that show Hunyuan at its best. Use them in your own AI workspace, then compare the output with what you learned in Tendril.
Hunyuan same-task bakeoff
BuildersCompare Hunyuan against a cheaper and stronger rival on one real task.
Use Hunyuan for this task, then compare with one cheaper model and one stronger model: summarize a 10-page policy document into risks, decisions, owners, and open questions.
Hunyuan failure-mode log
CreatorsTrack where Hunyuan fails instead of only saving the best output.
Run this task three times. For every answer, mark failures as factual error, formatting error, weak reasoning, refusal, or missing citation.
Print & keep
Printable reference
One-page summaries and flowcharts — great for desks, classrooms, or study sessions.
Go deeper
Official resources
Straight from the lab — docs, API references, and the chat surfaces you can try today.
Strengths
- open MoE releases
- long context and agent focus
- broad media-generation coverage
Limits
- documentation can be fragmented across Chinese and English surfaces
- preview models may change quickly
- tooling ecosystem is less familiar to US classrooms