Hy3 preview vs Inkling 2 Small
Hy3 preview costs 1.7x less per output token than Inkling 2 Small ($0.60 vs $1.00 per million). Updated November 14, 2026; 22 benchmarks have a result for both.
Hy3 preview or Inkling 2 Small: which to pick
Only Inkling 2 Small has a coding score, 48.9 on the Vibe Coding Index; Hy3 preview has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Hy3 preview for output tokens 1.7x cheaper ($0.60 vs $1.00 per million) and work measured by LMArena Text: science or LMArena Text: Russian, where it leads.
- Shared results
- 22
- Hy3 preview only
- 13
- Inkling 2 Small only
- 29
- Like-for-like categories
- 4 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
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, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only Inkling 2 Small has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Inkling 2 Small has a AA Intelligence Index result, 30.6.
Directional only
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Hy3 preview has a AA Agentic Index result, 24.1.
Directional only
General
Vals Index
No call
Only Inkling 2 Small has a Vals Index result, 56.1%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Inkling 2 Small
Inkling 2 Small takes 1.05M tokens against 262K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Hy3 preview
Hy3 preview $0.0005, Inkling 2 Small $0.0008 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Hy3 preview not benchmarked, Inkling 2 Small 48.9 from 3 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Coding, 26.5 points apart on average over 5 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- LMArena WebDev: React: Hy3 preview 1350 against Inkling 2 Small 1660, 41.7 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Hy3 preview $0.60 against Inkling 2 Small $1.00 per million output tokens, 1.7x apart.
- Context window
- Hy3 preview takes 262K tokens, Inkling 2 Small 1.05M.
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 | Hy3 preview | Bars | Inkling 2 Small | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 5 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 4 | ||
| Knowledge | 1 | 1 | ||
| General | 2 | 9 | ||
| All shared boards | 3 | 19 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index05
| Benchmark | Hy3 preview | Inkling 2 Small | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1358 | 1647 | Inkling 2 Small |
| AA Coding Index | 58.8 | Not measured | Only Hy3 preview measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 12.6% | Only Inkling 2 Small measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 81.5% | Only Inkling 2 Small measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 0.5% | Only Inkling 2 Small measured |
| SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI) | Not measured | 43.1% | Only Inkling 2 Small measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 72.7% | Only Inkling 2 Small measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 52.3% | Only Inkling 2 Small measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 34.1% | Not measured | Only Hy3 preview measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 13.1% | Only Inkling 2 Small measured |
| FrontierCode 2.0 | Not measured | 25.4% | Only Inkling 2 Small measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1421 | 1455 | Inkling 2 Small |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1423 | 1443 | Inkling 2 Small |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1350 | 1660 | Inkling 2 Small |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1355 | 1661 | Inkling 2 Small |
| SWE-Bench Pro V2 | Not measured | 97.7% | Only Inkling 2 Small measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 36 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index1 board, none shared
| Benchmark | Hy3 preview | Inkling 2 Small | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | Not measured | 30.6 | Only Inkling 2 Small measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Hy3 preview | Inkling 2 Small | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 24.1 | Not measured | Only Hy3 preview measured |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 1.9% | Only Inkling 2 Small measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 38.9% | Only Inkling 2 Small measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 46.6% | Only Inkling 2 Small measured |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 21.7% | Only Inkling 2 Small measured |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 70.0% | Only Inkling 2 Small measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | Not measured | 2.9% | Only Inkling 2 Small measured |
| Vals Science Index | Not measured | 32.7% | Only Inkling 2 Small measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 92.7% | Not measured | Only Hy3 preview measured |
| APEX-Agents | Not measured | 46.8% | Only Inkling 2 Small measured |
| MCP Atlas | Not measured | 85.4% | Only Inkling 2 Small measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 33 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
| Benchmark | Hy3 preview | Inkling 2 Small | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | Not measured | 25.2% | Only Inkling 2 Small measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 86.7% | Not measured | Only Hy3 preview measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 27.8% | 44.1% | Inkling 2 Small |
| HLE-Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 28.7% | Only Inkling 2 Small measured |
| CritPt v2, hard subset (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 35.0% | Only Inkling 2 Small measured |
| ARC-AGI | Not measured | 96.5% | Only Inkling 2 Small measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Not measured | 81.7% | Only Inkling 2 Small measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1413 | 1421 | Inkling 2 Small |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1424 | 1478 | Inkling 2 Small |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1416 | 1424 | Inkling 2 Small |
| Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index3 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Hy3 preview | Inkling 2 Small | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text: math | 1424 | Not measured | Only Hy3 preview measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1442 | Not measured | Only Hy3 preview measured |
| MathArena | Not measured | 42.4% | Only Inkling 2 Small measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11
| Benchmark | Hy3 preview | Inkling 2 Small | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA-Omniscience | Not measured | 16.1 | Only Inkling 2 Small measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1416 | 1409 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1406 | Not measured | Only Hy3 preview measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1431 | Not measured | Only Hy3 preview measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1399 | 1415 | Inkling 2 Small |
| Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here | |||
Web designNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Hy3 preview | Inkling 2 Small | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 9 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index29
| Benchmark | Hy3 preview | Inkling 2 Small | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | Not measured | 56.1% | Only Inkling 2 Small measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | Not measured | 88.6% | Only Inkling 2 Small measured |
| IFBench | 63.1% | Not measured | Only Hy3 preview measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 64.7% | 83.3% | Inkling 2 Small |
| GDPval-AA | Not measured | 1630 | Only Inkling 2 Small measured |
| LMArena Text | 1401 | 1403 | Inkling 2 Small |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1384 | 1408 | Inkling 2 Small |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1340 | 1348 | Inkling 2 Small |
| LMArena Text: English | 1409 | 1418 | Inkling 2 Small |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1390 | 1390 | Inkling 2 Small |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1435 | Not measured | Only Hy3 preview measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1422 | Not measured | Only Hy3 preview measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1401 | Not measured | Only Hy3 preview measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1399 | 1377 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1410 | 1408 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1402 | 1403 | Inkling 2 Small |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1371 | 1381 | Inkling 2 Small |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1353 | 1359 | Inkling 2 Small |
| Neither model has a result on the other 31 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Hy3 preview | Inkling 2 Small | 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 | Tencent Hy3 preview | Thinking Machines Inkling 2 Small |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Tencent | Thinking Machines |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | April 22, 2026 | November 9, 2026 |
| Context window | 262K | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.18 | $0.30 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.60 | $1.00 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | 48.9 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 1 | 3 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Hy3 preview better than Inkling 2 Small for coding?
Only Inkling 2 Small has a coding score, 48.9 on the Vibe Coding Index; Hy3 preview has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Hy3 preview for output tokens 1.7x cheaper ($0.60 vs $1.00 per million) and work measured by LMArena Text: science or LMArena Text: Russian, where it leads.
Which is cheaper, Hy3 preview or Inkling 2 Small?
Hy3 preview costs $0.18 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; Inkling 2 Small costs $0.30 and $1.00. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Hy3 preview or Inkling 2 Small?
Inkling 2 Small, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks is the Hy3 preview vs Inkling 2 Small comparison based on?
22 benchmarks have a result for both models as of November 14, 2026. Hy3 preview's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and Inkling 2 Small's on 3. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.