Claude Opus 5 vs Hy3
Updated October 21, 2026. 44 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
vs boards won of 44 shared
Decision reading
Pick Claude Opus 5 for coding: it scores 81.8 on the Vibe Coding Index against 43.9 for Hy3.
Pick Hy3 when output tokens cost 47.3x less.
Model AClaude Opus 5Anthropic81.8/1002 independent benchmarks$1.33 per solved taskModel BHy3Tencent43.9/1001 independent benchmarkNo cost per solved task
- Shared results
- 44
- Claude Opus 5 only
- 86
- Hy3 only
- 0
- Like-for-like categories
- 6 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, four public coding benchmarks
Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5 scores 81.8 against 43.9.
2 and 1 benchmarks behind the scores
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Claude Opus 5 has a AA Intelligence Index result, 50.8.
Directional only
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Claude Opus 5 has a AA Agentic Index result, 56.5.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Claude Opus 5 has a GPQA Diamond result, 93.4%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Claude Opus 5 has a MMLU Pro result, 91.6%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5 leads, 1309 against 1230.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5 takes 1M tokens against 262K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Hy3
Claude Opus 5 $0.018, Hy3 $0.0004 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Claude Opus 5 has the number, $1.33.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Claude Opus 5 81.8 from 2 benchmarks, Hy3 43.9 from 1 benchmark.
- Widest category
- Coding, 19.1 points apart on average over 7 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- ALE-Bench: Claude Opus 5 2164.6 against Hy3 838.6, 44.2 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Claude Opus 5 $25.00 against Hy3 $0.528 per million output tokens, 47.3x apart.
- Context window
- Claude Opus 5 takes 1M tokens, Hy3 262K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Claude Opus 5 | Bars | Hy3 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 7 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 5 | 0 | ||
| Math | 2 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 4 | 0 | ||
| Web design | 8 | 0 | ||
| General | 18 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 44 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index70
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Hy3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | 90.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1689 | 1507 | Claude Opus 5 |
| AA Coding Index | 78.0 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 89.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 97.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 53.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 88.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 57.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 3.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | 84.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 84.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI) | 28.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| SkillsBench (Vals AI) | 60.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | 65.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| SciCode | 56.4% | 48.6% | Claude Opus 5 |
| FrontierCode | 53.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| FrontierSWE | 52.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| WeirdML | 91.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| ALE-Bench | 2164.6 | 838.6 | Claude Opus 5 |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1533 | 1466 | Claude Opus 5 |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1527 | 1463 | Claude Opus 5 |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1711 | 1511 | Claude Opus 5 |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1680 | 1487 | Claude Opus 5 |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1662 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Hy3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 50.8 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 163.9 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index27 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Hy3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 56.5 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | 1266 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | 1306 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | 1348 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | 1258 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | 1279 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building games | 1261 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | 1265 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| LiveBench research | 88.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| LiveBench browser | 84.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | 62.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | 12.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 58.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 45.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 55.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 73.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | 79.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 27.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Vals Science Index | 47.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Time Horizon Index (Vals AI) | 18.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| CUA-bench (Vals AI) | 9.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| APEX-Agents | 65.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 31.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| BALROG | 63.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| PostTrainBench | 35.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $11,182 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| LMArena Search | 1242 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Hy3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 93.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| LiveBench reasoning | 91.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | 37.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 89.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 93.7% | 89.7% | Claude Opus 5 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 54.9% | 33.5% | Claude Opus 5 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 93.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| ARC-AGI | 97.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 90.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| SimpleBench | 80.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Chess puzzles | 43.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 59.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| EBR-bench | 45.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1527 | 1447 | Claude Opus 5 |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1554 | 1461 | Claude Opus 5 |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1523 | 1455 | Claude Opus 5 |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1348 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1338 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Hy3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 98.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 85.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 73.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| ProofBench | 99.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1533 | 1473 | Claude Opus 5 |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1544 | 1482 | Claude Opus 5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Hy3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 91.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 87.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 73.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 75.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 72.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 63.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 59.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1531 | 1457 | Claude Opus 5 |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1525 | 1452 | Claude Opus 5 |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1530 | 1422 | Claude Opus 5 |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1501 | 1424 | Claude Opus 5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index80
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Hy3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1309 | 1230 | Claude Opus 5 |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1348 | 1205 | Claude Opus 5 |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1339 | 1208 | Claude Opus 5 |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1329 | 1163 | Claude Opus 5 |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1335 | 1233 | Claude Opus 5 |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1324 | 1227 | Claude Opus 5 |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1310 | 1199 | Claude Opus 5 |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1352 | 1157 | Claude Opus 5 |
| LiveBench design | 83.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index180
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Hy3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | 74.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 76.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 49.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 91.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | 73.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 82.0% | 79.0% | Claude Opus 5 |
| DTBench | 97.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| LMCA | 64.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Furniture assembly | 60.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1509 | 1438 | Claude Opus 5 |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1518 | 1426 | Claude Opus 5 |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1493 | 1403 | Claude Opus 5 |
| LMArena Vision | 1320 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1508 | 1448 | Claude Opus 5 |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1502 | 1426 | Claude Opus 5 |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1573 | 1485 | Claude Opus 5 |
| LMArena Text: German | 1527 | 1449 | Claude Opus 5 |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1520 | 1397 | Claude Opus 5 |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1517 | 1396 | Claude Opus 5 |
| LMArena Text: French | 1519 | 1456 | Claude Opus 5 |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1523 | 1457 | Claude Opus 5 |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1507 | 1432 | Claude Opus 5 |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1522 | 1447 | Claude Opus 5 |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1500 | 1436 | Claude Opus 5 |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1517 | 1442 | Claude Opus 5 |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1499 | 1414 | Claude Opus 5 |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1481 | 1400 | Claude Opus 5 |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1315 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1400 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1329 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1293 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1313 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| LMArena Document | 1516 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Hy3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Claude Opus 5$0.018Fits in one request
Hy3$0.0004Fits in one request
Hy3 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Claude Opus 5$0.325Fits in one request
Hy3$0.0082Fits in one request
Hy3 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Claude Opus 5$1.25Fits in one request
Hy3$0.032Fits in one request
Hy3 costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Anthropic Claude Opus 5 | Tencent Hy3 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Anthropic | Tencent |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | July 24, 2026 | July 6, 2026 |
| Context window | 1M | 262K |
| Input $/Mtok | $5.00 | $0.132 |
| Output $/Mtok | $25.00 | $0.528 |
| Coding index | 81.8 | 43.9 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 2 | 1 |
| Cost per solved task | $1.33 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Claude Opus 5 better than Hy3 for coding?
Pick Claude Opus 5 for coding: it scores 81.8 on the Vibe Coding Index against 43.9 for Hy3. Pick Hy3 when output tokens cost 47.3x less.
Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 5 or Hy3?
Claude Opus 5 costs $5.00 per million input tokens and $25.00 per million output tokens; Hy3 costs $0.132 and $0.528. Cost per solved task is known for Claude Opus 5 only.
Which has the bigger context window, Claude Opus 5 or Hy3?
Claude Opus 5, with 1M tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks is the Claude Opus 5 vs Hy3 comparison based on?
44 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Claude Opus 5's coding index rests on 2 independent benchmarks and Hy3's on 1. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.