Tencent (HKEX: 700) stock has drawn market attention after the company announced on August 5, 2026, that Hunyuan Hy3 would become more widely available globally. The WorkBuddy platform is offering global users a free trial through August 31. Within one week of its release, API call volume exceeded 68 times that of the previous-generation model, and it topped OpenRouter's global LLM usage rankings.
Tencent Hunyuan Hy3 Global Access Options and Free-Trial Period
Hy3 provides global users, enterprises, and developers with multiple access options:
WorkBuddy: A free trial is available globally through August 31, 2026 (Pacific Time)
Miora (Tencent Design MiaoJing): An AI-native creative workspace for design teams, content creators, and marketing professionals
Tencent Cloud TokenHub: A Model-as-a-Service platform for unified API management and deployment of multiple large language models
API: Can be integrated directly into development environments, coding plugins, Hermes, Kilo, Cline, OpenClaw, and other third-party platforms
Open-source community: Hugging Face and ModelScope, under the Apache 2.0 open-source license, enabling commercial use and modification
Hy3 Architecture Specifications: 295 Billion Parameters, 256K Context
Hy3 adopts a hybrid mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture that combines fast and deliberate reasoning, with 295 billion total parameters and 21 billion active parameters, and supports a context length of 256K. In reasoning, instruction understanding, in-context learning, code generation, and AI agent capabilities, its performance is comparable to that of flagship models with two to five times as many parameters.
Hy3 was designed in coordination with Tencent's product ecosystem and is continuously optimized based on feedback from millions of users and large-scale real-world business scenarios, effectively reducing per-task token consumption in software development, office collaboration, financial modeling, front-end design, and other use cases.
WorkBuddy Real-World Test Data: Task Success Rate Exceeds 90%
WorkBuddy has become the most widely used AI agent workspace in China, enabling users to complete tasks such as data research, analysis, document writing, and presentation creation through natural language. It has more than 100 built-in skills and supports concurrent collaboration among multiple agents.
In real-world tests involving Tencent's internal office scenarios, following the integration of Hy3, WorkBuddy's task success rate exceeded 90%, while its average task completion time was 34% shorter than that of the previous-generation Hy model. Its API supports flexible access to different models and enables remote task management through tools such as Discord, Slack, and Telegram.
FAQ
What is the deadline for the Tencent Hunyuan Hy3 global free trial?
According to Tencent's August 5, 2026, announcement, the deadline for the Hy3 free trial on the WorkBuddy platform is August 31, 2026 (Pacific Time), and the trial is open to global users.
How did Hy3 perform in the market during the week after its release?
According to Tencent's announcement, within one week of Hy3's release, API call volume reached more than 68 times that of the previous-generation model, while Hy3 ranked first in OpenRouter's global large language model usage rankings during the same period.
What is Hy3's pricing on OpenRouter?
According to Tencent's announcement, Hy3's API pricing on OpenRouter is $0.1288 per million input tokens and $0.5336 per million output tokens. It uses the Apache 2.0 open-source license.
