# Cheapest Hy3 API providers, compared (prices checked Nov 7, 2026)

URL: https://ernd.ai/inference-prices/hy3

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Hy3 is an open-weight model from Tencent. On OpenRouter, 5 listings from 5 providers sell it, and the blended price runs from $0.144 to $0.35 per million tokens.

| Provider | Input /1M | Output /1M | Blended 3:1 | Cache read /1M | Context | Quantization | Latency | Throughput |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tencent Cloud | $0.0825 | $0.33 | $0.144 | $0.0206 | 262K | FP8 | 3.06 s | 44 tok/s |
| GMICloud | $0.14 | $0.58 | $0.25 | $0.035 | 262K | BF16 | 2.27 s | 42 tok/s |
| NovitaAI | $0.14 | $0.58 | $0.25 | $0.035 | 262K | Not listed | 2.77 s | 51 tok/s |
| Phala | $0.15 | $0.64 | $0.272 | $0.04 | 262K | Not listed | 1.86 s | 48 tok/s |
| AtlasCloud | $0.20 | $0.80 | $0.35 | $0.05 | 262K | FP8 | 1.62 s | 62 tok/s |

Blended is three parts input price to one part output, per million tokens. Latency is time to first token and throughput is output tokens per second, both averaged from OpenRouter's daily figures for the last 7 days. Cheapest and fastest only count listings that were up when checked.

## Questions

### What is the cheapest Hy3 API provider?

Tencent Cloud, at $0.144 per million tokens blended ($0.0825 input, $0.33 output), in OpenRouter's listings on November 7, 2026.

### How much does Hy3 cost per million tokens?

Input runs from $0.0825 to $0.20 per million tokens across 5 listings, and output from $0.33 to $0.80. The middle listing comes to $0.25 blended.

### Which Hy3 provider is fastest?

AtlasCloud led on both counts over the last 7 days, at about 62 tokens per second and 1.62 s to the first token.

### How do I pay for Hy3 inference?

Buy OpenRouter credits and it sends each request to one of these providers, or open an account with a provider and pay it directly. The ernd card is a credit card for US companies. It earns 4% back on AI vendor spend and 1.5% back on everything else.

Source: OpenRouter public model and provider listings (https://openrouter.ai/models), checked November 7, 2026.

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