Hunyuan
Hunyuan spans text, image, video and 3D generation, with several components open-sourced.
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Hunyuan vs DeepSeek
Hunyuan (Tencent) and DeepSeek (DeepSeek) both sit in Writing. Hunyuan shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (17 vs 9). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Hunyuan Tencent | DeepSeek DeepSeek |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | Hunyuan-role-latest | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash |
| Entry cost | Offers free 1M tokens upon signup. Paid usage is billed per million tokens (e.g. Hunyuan-a13b at 0.5-2 CNY perM tokens). | Pay-as-you-go API pricing. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash starts at $0.15/1M input tokens (cache miss, off-peak) and $0.60/1M output tokens (off-peak). |
| Pricing tiers | Free Tier / 免费额度 free | deepseek-flash (Input Cache Hit - Off-Peak) $0.003 · deepseek-flash (Input Cache Hit - Peak) $0.006 · deepseek-flash (Input Cache Miss - Off-Peak) $0.15 · deepseek-flash (Input Cache Miss - Peak) $0.3 · deepseek-flash (Output - Off-Peak) $0.6 · deepseek-flash (Output - Peak) $1.2 |
| Model stack | Hunyuan-a13b · Hunyuan-embedding · Hunyuan-role-latest · Hunyuan-t1-vision · Hunyuan-T2 · Hunyuan-translation · Hunyuan-translation-lite · Hunyuan-turbos-vision · Hunyuan-turbos-vision-video · Hunyuan3D · HunyuanVideo · Tencent HY Vision 1.5 Instruct | DeepSeek-R1 · DeepSeek-V3.2 · deepseek-v4-flash · DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 · DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp · DeepSeek-V4-Pro · DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 · DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash |
| Context window | 256K tokens | 1M |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 17 | 9 |
| Origin | China | China |
| Capabilities | Image generation, Video generation, 3D asset generation, WeChat integration, Text Generation, Roleplay, Translation, Multimodal Vision | Reasoning mode, Open weights (MIT), OpenAI-compatible API, Context caching, Function calling, Thinking Mode, Context Caching, JSON Output |
DeepSeek
Hangzhou lab whose V and R series models are released under permissive licences and undercut Western API pricing by an order of magnitude.
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