Phi 4 vs Hy3 preview

Phi 4 at $0.081 in and $0.161 out and Hy3 preview at $0.072 in and $0.241 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Phi 4

Microsoft

0.05¢

for a client proposal

$0.081 in · $0.161 out / 1M

16K context · released January 2025

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Hy3 preview

Tencent

0.06¢

for a client proposal

$0.072 in · $0.241 out / 1M

262K context · released 4 months ago

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.11¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Hy3 preview at $0.072 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Phi 4 at $0.161 per million tokens.
Largest context: Hy3 preview at 262K tokens — about 370 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

Phi 4

0.02¢

Hy3 preview

0.03¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Phi 4

0.05¢

Hy3 preview

0.06¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Phi 4

needs 155K ctx

Hy3 preview

1.2¢

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Phi 4

needs 35K ctx

Hy3 preview

0.28¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Phi 4

needs 250K ctx

Hy3 preview

1.9¢

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

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80% Input20% Output

Phi 4

Hy3 preview

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Pricing

Phi 4

Hy3 preview

Input / 1M tokens

$0.081

$0.072

Output / 1M tokens

$0.161

$0.241

Cached input / 1M

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$0.024

Specs

Phi 4

Hy3 preview

Provider

Microsoft

Tencent

Released

January 2025

4 months ago

Context window

16K

262K

Max output

16K

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Input

Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

2024-06-30

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Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Phi 4

Microsoft

0.02¢

for this task

67% input · 33% output

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Hy3 preview

Tencent

0.03¢

for this task

55% input · 45% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.05¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 9,859 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Hy3 preview has the largest context window here — 262K tokens.

On price, Phi 4 is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.05¢.

If you want to watch the model think, Hy3 preview shows reasoning; the other answers directly.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

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Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Phi 4 or Hy3 preview?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Phi 4 at 0.05¢; Hy3 preview at 0.06¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Hy3 preview — 262K tokens, about 370 pages.

Can I run Phi 4 and Hy3 preview side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.11¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.11¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.