Tencent's open-weight, multimodal AI — reaching over a billion people through WeChat and Yuanbao
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Average score: 7.0/10 across 8 dimensions. How we score →
Hunyuan is Tencent's AI family, notable for being open-weight (Apache 2.0), broadly multimodal (text, image and standout 3D generation), and distributed to WeChat's ~1.4 billion users via the Yuanbao assistant. Its flagship Hy3 is a 295B-parameter mixture-of-experts model (21B active) with a 256K context and selectable thinking depths. It's free to chat with via Yuanbao and WeChat, free to self-host, and cheap on Tencent Cloud. Because it's open-weight, you can self-host it and keep data on your own hardware — a real advantage for sensitive work.
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Best at: PowerYes, Hunyuan (Tencent) is completely free. There are no paid plans — you get full access without a credit card or account upgrade. It scores 9/10 for free-tier quality on Pickurai (Generous, most users get real value).
Hunyuan (Tencent) is excellent value — Pickurai rates it 9/10 for value for money (Excellent ratio vs. alternatives). Combined with a power score of 8/10 and ease of use at 6/10, it delivers strong results that justify its price for most users.
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