Claude Opus 4.8vsHunyuan Hy3 Preview

Claude Opus 4.8 leads the overall Podium Score by 5.0 points (76.0 vs 71.0).Category wins: Claude Opus 4.8 0 — 0 Hunyuan Hy3 Preview.Hunyuan Hy3 Preview is the cheaper pick ($3/M vs $15/M per 1M output tokens). Claude Opus 4.8 is faster (50 t/s vs 50 t/s).

Key VerdictAggregated 2026 Benchmark Analysis

Claude Opus 4.8 is rated higher overall with a Podium Score of 76.0 (vs 71.0 for Hunyuan Hy3 Preview). Both models show closely matched capabilities across domain benchmarks.

Coding & Engineering
Comparable
Inference Speed
Claude Opus 4.8 (50 t/s)
Cost Efficiency
Hunyuan Hy3 Preview ($3/M/M)
MetricClaude Opus 4.8Hunyuan Hy3 Preview
Podium Score76.0 ▲71.0
Arena Elo1484
Intelligence Index55.7
Coding58.0
Math58.7
Reasoning82.8
Agentic74.9
Knowledge28.8
Multimodal89.6
Long-context99.2
Output speed50 t/s50 t/s
Output price$15/M$3/M ▲
Context window1000K ▲128K
Scores aggregated from five independent leaderboards. See Methodology. More head-to-heads: Claude Opus 4.8 vs Claude Mythos · Claude Opus 4.8 vs Claude Fable 5 · Claude Opus 4.8 vs Kimi K3 · Claude Opus 4.8 vs Claude Opus 5
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