Head-to-head comparison
Hy4 preview (Tencent) and TCAndon Router (Tencent) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.
Snapshot as of 10 September 2026
As of 10 September 2026, Hy4 preview holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#23 vs #137).
Evidence: 9 reported rows against measured corpus ladders (41%); publisher-corpus-prior over 183 held-out anchors (11%); opens above measured predecessor tencent/hy3 on same-family ordering evidence (39%); 1 specialist-board observation at 2.5% support (9%); shrunk 1.3 toward the measured corpus · finetune of Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 · finetune (100%). Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.
Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.
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Hy4 preview ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 10 September 2026: #23 against #137. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it. Their published uncertainty intervals do not overlap, but the aggregate Index does not predict performance on every task; compare the relevant benchmark configurations before choosing.
At least one of the two has no listed API price on ModelCap right now, so no price comparison is made.
Both publish a 1M-token context window.
The two models do not share a coding benchmark board on ModelCap yet, so no head-to-head coding score is published; the ModelCap Index position is the closest overall signal.
Hy4 preview: Open weights. TCAndon Router: Open weights. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.
ModelCap currently lists 1 API provider for Hy4 preview and 0 for TCAndon Router, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.
Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 10 September 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.