A month ago I wrote a blog post about how Hy3 was topping the OpenRouter rankings despite no one talking about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48317294
As of today, it has fallen to 8/9th on the rankings. I don't see a reason where you would use this model over competitors. However, price economics are bit confusing, as currently the effective input price of Hy3 via OpenRouter is now the same as DeepSeek-hosted DeepSeek Flash V4.
I had to stop using it because I was getting rate limited like crazy. Probably why it has dropped. Seemed like they couldn't keep up with demand.
That was the preview model right? This one appears to be significantly better.
I mean it's still a small model, but at least the benchmark scores (incl. on DeepSWE) went up significantly.
It costs as much as Flash, but the benchmarks are on par with Pro (or above in some cases).
Of course, benchmarks are mostly meaningless -- the only real benchmark is the actual work you give it :)
Writes pretty engaging prose, finetunes well, now MIT licensed... what's not to like?
Oh and very good world knowledge for the size: better than than DS4 Flash
It is really slow on openrouter and I ran into many http errors.