Llama 4 Maverick vs Hy3 preview
Updated October 21, 2026. 33 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
Decision reading
Pick Hy3 preview for coding: it scores 22.4 on the Vibe Coding Index against 18.1 for Llama 4 Maverick, though on 1 benchmark against 2.
Pick Llama 4 Maverick when the context window is larger, 524K against 262K tokens.
- Shared results
- 33
- Llama 4 Maverick only
- 51
- Hy3 preview only
- 3
- Like-for-like categories
- 7 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
Hy3 preview
Hy3 preview scores 22.4 against 18.1.
2 and 1 benchmarks behind the scores
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Hy3 preview
Hy3 preview leads, 25.3 against 9.3.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
Hy3 preview
Hy3 preview leads, 24.1 against 0.6.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Llama 4 Maverick has a GPQA Diamond result, 69.4%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only Llama 4 Maverick has a AIME result, 25.2%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Llama 4 Maverick has a MMLU Pro result, 79.4%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Llama 4 Maverick has a Design Arena: websites result, 871.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Llama 4 Maverick
Llama 4 Maverick takes 524K tokens against 262K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Hy3 preview
Llama 4 Maverick $0.0005, Hy3 preview $0.0005 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Llama 4 Maverick has the number, $1.491.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Llama 4 Maverick 18.1 from 2 benchmarks, Hy3 preview 22.4 from 1 benchmark.
- Widest category
- Agentic work, 49.2 points apart on average over 2 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- τ²-Bench Telecom: Llama 4 Maverick 17.8% against Hy3 preview 92.7%, 74.9 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Llama 4 Maverick $0.6525 against Hy3 preview $0.60 per million output tokens, 1.1x apart.
- Context window
- Llama 4 Maverick takes 524K tokens, Hy3 preview 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 | Llama 4 Maverick | Bars | Hy3 preview | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 4 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 1 | ||
| Agentic work | 0 | 2 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 5 | ||
| Math | 0 | 2 | ||
| Knowledge | 0 | 4 | ||
| General | 0 | 15 | ||
| All shared boards | 0 | 33 |
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index04
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Hy3 preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | 15.6% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| SWE-bench Verified | 21.0% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1357 | Only Hy3 preview measured |
| AA Coding Index | 16.3 | 58.8 | Hy3 preview |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 47.3% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 39.7% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| SciCode | 31.7% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 6.8% | 34.1% | Hy3 preview |
| WeirdML | 24.5% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| ALE-Bench | 173.0 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1301 | 1421 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1299 | 1423 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena WebDev: React | Not measured | 1349 | Only Hy3 preview measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1356 | Only Hy3 preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 24 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Hy3 preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 9.3 | 25.3 | Hy3 preview |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 132.2 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Hy3 preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 0.6 | 24.1 | Hy3 preview |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 17.8% | 92.7% | Hy3 preview |
| Neither model has a result on the other 37 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index05
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Hy3 preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 69.4% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 71.7% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 67.1% | 86.7% | Hy3 preview |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 4.9% | 27.8% | Hy3 preview |
| ARC-AGI | 4.4% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.0% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| SimpleBench | 27.7% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1281 | 1413 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1259 | 1422 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1295 | 1416 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1134 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1164 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Hy3 preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 25.2% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | 85.2% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 92.4% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| AA Math Index | 19.3 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 19.3% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1299 | 1424 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1295 | 1442 | Hy3 preview |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Hy3 preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 79.4% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 77.8% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 49.7% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 66.6% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 58.5% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 43.3% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 36.5% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 80.9% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| GeoBench | 52.0% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1288 | 1416 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1275 | 1405 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1286 | 1430 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1260 | 1397 | Hy3 preview |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Hy3 preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 871 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 899 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 838 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 882 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 901 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 880 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index015
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Hy3 preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 35.7% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 54.2% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| IFBench | 43.0% | 63.1% | Hy3 preview |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 50.0% | 64.7% | Hy3 preview |
| DTBench | 61.9% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMCA | 15.9% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 46.2% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | 62.0% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1401 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1267 | 1383 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1266 | 1339 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Vision | 1142 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1303 | 1409 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1269 | 1390 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1277 | 1435 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: German | 1291 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1206 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1203 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1259 | 1425 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1293 | 1399 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1286 | 1399 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1275 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1289 | 1411 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1280 | 1402 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1277 | 1370 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1250 | 1352 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1150 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1141 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1143 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1100 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1099 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Maverick measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Hy3 preview | 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
Hy3 preview costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Hy3 preview costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Hy3 preview 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 | Meta Llama 4 Maverick | Tencent Hy3 preview |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Meta Llama | Tencent |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | April 5, 2025 | April 22, 2026 |
| Context window | 524K | 262K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.1875 | $0.18 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.6525 | $0.60 |
| Coding index | 18.1 | 22.4 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 2 | 1 |
| Cost per solved task | $1.491 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Llama 4 Maverick better than Hy3 preview for coding?
Pick Hy3 preview for coding: it scores 22.4 on the Vibe Coding Index against 18.1 for Llama 4 Maverick, though on 1 benchmark against 2. Pick Llama 4 Maverick when the context window is larger, 524K against 262K tokens.
Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Maverick or Hy3 preview?
Llama 4 Maverick costs $0.1875 per million input tokens and $0.6525 per million output tokens; Hy3 preview costs $0.18 and $0.60. Cost per solved task is known for Llama 4 Maverick only.
Which has the bigger context window, Llama 4 Maverick or Hy3 preview?
Llama 4 Maverick, with 524K tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks is the Llama 4 Maverick vs Hy3 preview comparison based on?
33 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Llama 4 Maverick's coding index rests on 2 independent benchmarks and Hy3 preview's on 1. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.