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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 (12 vs 11). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.

AttributeHunyuan

Tencent

DeepSeek

DeepSeek

SegmentWritingWriting
VersionHunyuanDeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
Entry costFree trial quota of 1M tokens. Pay-as-you-go pricing applies afterward.Pay-as-you-go API pricing (not fully detailed in text). Free tier or flat-rate seats not specified.
Pricing tiersFree Trial Package freePay-as-you-go API free
Model stackHunyuan-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 Instructdeepseek-flash · 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 · DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
Context window256K tokens1000000
Public API
Routes models
Changes / 30d1211
OriginChinaChina
CapabilitiesImage generation, Video generation, 3D asset generation, WeChat integration, Text Generation, Roleplay, Translation, Multimodal VisionReasoning mode, Open weights (MIT), OpenAI-compatible API, Context caching, Function calling, Thinking Mode, Context Caching, JSON Output

Hunyuan

Hunyuan spans text, image, video and 3D generation, with several components open-sourced.

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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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