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Hy-MT2-1.8B: pricing, context and benchmarks
Hy-MT2-1.8B is a language model from Tencent released on August 20, 2026. It costs $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.18 per million output tokens, with a 8.2K-token context window. No independent score has been published for it so far.
| Price | 28/30 | |
|---|---|---|
| Context | 0/15 | |
| Features | 4/15 |
What you need to know about Hy-MT2-1.8B
Hy-MT2-1.8B was released by Tencent (China) on August 20, 2026. It accepts text as input and produces text. Its context window reaches 8,192 tokens, larger than 3 % of the models in the registry, and it can write up to 4,096 tokens in one go.
It is a recent model: real-world feedback and independent scores are still scarce.
Hy-MT2-1.8B pricing
On OpenRouter, Hy-MT2-1.8B costs $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.18 per million output tokens. Counting three tokens read for every token written, its average price is $0.077 per million, more expensive than 6 % of paid models (9.9 times cheaper than the median of $0.76).
A concrete example: a task that sends 2,000 tokens (about 1,500 words) and receives a 500-token answer costs $0.0002. At 1,000 tasks a day, budget $5 a month. The price calculator redoes this with your own volumes.
Performance and benchmarks
Epoch AI does not yet publish a capabilities index for Hy-MT2-1.8B. We therefore show no made-up performance rating: only price, context and features count towards its score.
Features, privacy and local use
- It does not support tool calling: it is not suited to driving an AI agent that has to act.
Its weights are open and downloadable from Hugging Face: you can run it on your own machines without sending your data to a third party.
Other Tencent models
| Model | Released | Avg. price | ECI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hy4 preview | Aug 28, 2026 | $1.13 | — |
| Hy-MT2-30B-A3B | Aug 20, 2026 | $0.13 | — |
| Hy-MT2-7B | Aug 19, 2026 | $0.13 | — |
| Hy3 | Jul 6, 2026 | $0.15 | — |
| Hy3 preview | Apr 22, 2026 | $0.29 | — |
| Hunyuan A13B Instruct | Jul 8, 2025 | $0.25 | — |
Verdict
Hy-MT2-1.8B scores 53/100 on our grid, which only uses published figures.
Strengths
- Low price: cheaper than 94 % of paid models.
- Open weights: self-hostable, your data stays with you.
Limitations
- Short context (8.2K tokens): long documents must be split.
- No tool calling: unusable as an agent's brain.
- No independent score published: performance cannot be verified.
- Text only: reads neither images nor files.
Avoid if…
- you are building an agent that must call tools;
- you analyse long documents in one go.
Alternatives
- MythoMax 13B$0.09
- Phi 4$0.09
- Reka Edge$0.1
- Llama 3.2 1B Instruct$0.07
- Llama 3 8B Lunaris$0.04
- Mistral Small 3$0.06
Comparisons and tools
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Frequently asked questions
How much does Hy-MT2-1.8B cost?
$0.04 per million input tokens and $0.18 per million output tokens on OpenRouter (checked October 25, 2026). A task with 2,000 tokens read and 500 written costs $0.0002.
How big is Hy-MT2-1.8B's context window?
8,192 tokens, roughly 6,000 words, with a maximum of 4,096 output tokens.
Can Hy-MT2-1.8B run locally?
Yes, its weights are published.
Is Hy-MT2-1.8B suitable for an AI agent?
No: without tool calling it cannot act, only answer.
What are the alternatives to Hy-MT2-1.8B?
The closest models on price and performance are MythoMax 13B, Phi 4, and Reka Edge.
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