Gemini 3.5 Flash (High) vs Hy3

Which is better for the money: Gemini 3.5 Flash (High) by Google or Hy3 by Tencent? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-25.

Trade-off

GoogleGemini 3.5 Flash (High)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 32.60
Total cost: $4222

TencentHy3Off the frontier

Intelligence: 25.30
Total cost: $150

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Gemini 3.5 Flash (High) scores 7.3 points higher (32.6 vs 25.3) but costs 28× as much to run the benchmark ($4222 vs $150; flagship vs mid-range cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick Gemini 3.5 Flash (High) when you need intelligence above 25.3, and Hy3 when 25.3 is enough.

Metric	Gemini 3.5 Flash (High)	Hy3	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	32.6	25.3	−22.4% Hy3 is 22.4% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$4,222.12	$149.61	−96.5% Hy3 is 96.5% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	16.52s	33.13s	+100.5% Hy3 is 100.5% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$1.50 / $9.00	$0.14 / $0.56
Input modalities	Text, Image, Speech, Video	Text

Hy3 vs Gemini 3.5 Flash (High): 22.4% less intelligence, 96.5% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 100.5% slower end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Gemini 3.5 Flash (High) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Claude Opus 5.5 (Xhigh, Default Fallback) scores 56.00 for $4057.
Hy3 is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Max) scores 38.10 for $122.

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