# Hunyuan review (2026): is it worth it? > Tencent's model family, with an image model in preview Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Hunyuan is Tencent's family of AI models, shown on a Chinese-language portal that now brands the models Hy. It includes a language model, a vision-language model, a speech recognition model and Hy Image3.5, an image generator in preview. Tencent also lists open-source models and its consumer products. - **Category:** AI Image & Video Generators - **Made by:** Tencent - **Website:** https://hunyuan.tencent.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want an image generator you can sign up for today. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing Hunyuan's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **Hy Image3.5 preview:** A visual generation model in preview that Tencent describes as strong at rendering text, varied styles and consistent layouts. - **Hy3 language model:** A mixture-of-experts language model of 295B total and 21B active parameters, with a 256K context window and three thinking modes. - **Hy Vision 2.0:** A vision-language model for understanding images, built on Tencent's HY-2.0 language model and aimed at image-to-text tasks. - **Hy ASR 3.0 preview:** A speech recognition model built on Hy3 that Tencent says covers dialects and varied settings. - **Open-source models and products:** The portal links Tencent's open-source models and consumer products such as WorkBuddy, Yuanbao and ima. ## Good for - Developers who want to follow Tencent's model releases - Teams evaluating Chinese-ecosystem image and language models - Readers who need Tencent's research and open-source model listings ## Worth knowing - The portal is in Chinese, with a prompt to switch to an international site, so English documentation was not read. - No prices are shown on the portal; the image model is labelled preview and access terms were not confirmed. - This is a model family and research portal, not a single image app; the image model is one of several. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Hunyuan is Tencent's model portal, written in Chinese, where the image model is one of several and is marked as a preview. The portal shows no prices and no way to try it, so there isn't much here to buy. - **Value for money: C.** The portal publishes no price, so it sits in the middle by default. - **Free plan and trial: F.** The portal records no free tier or trial. - **Features: D.** A model family portal rather than an image app. Hy Image3.5 is a preview, alongside language, vision and speech models. - **Ease of use: C.** The page is in Chinese with a prompt to switch to an international site, and access terms weren't confirmed. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** A web portal. It lists open-source models and Tencent's own products, but nothing else to connect to. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Tencent's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among AI image and video generators - Hunyuan's GPA of 1.4 is higher than 0 of the 89 other AI image and video generators we grade, and level with 1. - It stands best on ease of use (C, above 7 of 89) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-images ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Hunyuan you would be making an image model, which you can rent by the picture but not make. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 88 of the 89 other AI image and video generators grade higher. - You could not: An image model, which you can rent by the picture but not make. - You could not: An AI model, which you can rent by the request but not make. - You could not: Speech turned into text you can trust. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Image generation, AI features, Chat assistant, Transcription ## Alternatives - [Seedream](https://toolgpa.com/tools/seedream): ByteDance's image generation and editing model, sold by the image. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hunyuan-vs-seedream) - [Wan](https://toolgpa.com/tools/wan): AI video and image generator on monthly credit plans. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hunyuan-vs-wan) - [FLUX by Black Forest Labs](https://toolgpa.com/tools/black-forest-labs): FLUX image and video models, paid per use via API and playground. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/black-forest-labs-vs-hunyuan) - [Ideogram](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ideogram): Image generator for designs with text, plus editing and video apps. 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