Tencent Hy Image (HunyuanImage 混元生图)
Tencent's 80B open-weight image model, plus an API-only Hy Image 3.5 preview
Overview
Tencent Hy Image covers HunyuanImage 3.0, an 80B mixture-of-experts autoregressive image model with open weights under Tencent's community licence (not valid in the EU, UK or South Korea), and Hy Image 3.5 preview (Sep 2026), an API-only model with multi-reference editing and 2K output, priced per image on Tencent Cloud.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 12 Oct 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
Use cases
What you can produce with Tencent Hy Image (HunyuanImage 混元生图)
- HunyuanImage 3.0 open weights (80B MoE) under Tencent's community licence
- Instruct and distilled variants for image editing and image-to-image
- HunyuanImage 2.1, a 17B model for 2K images on a single 24 GB GPU
- Hy Image 3.5 preview API with up to five reference images and multi-turn editing
- Per-image API pricing on Tencent Cloud International in USD
- Consumer image generation in the Yuanbao app
ASEAN Perspective
Tencent Hy Image (HunyuanImage 混元生图) in Southeast Asia
开源权重对国产 AI 创业生态有正面外溢——许多下游产品基于 Hunyuan-DiT 二次开发。
HunyuanImage 3.0 is one of the most capable image models you can download, with strong Chinese-language prompt handling and editing variants, and the per-image API for Hy Image 3.5 preview is inexpensive.
It is not open source: Tencent's licence excludes the EU, UK and South Korea and caps very large products, and the full model needs several 80 GB GPUs. The newest model is API-only. For teams in Southeast Asia that can host big models or pay per image, it is worth testing.
What we found
Tencent's image models are now sold under the name Hy, though the open weights still carry the Hunyuan name. Two lines matter. HunyuanImage 3.0, released as open weights in September 2025, is an 80-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that activates about 13 billion parameters per token and generates images with an autoregressive design rather than the diffusion transformer of Tencent's earlier Hunyuan-DiT. Instruct and distilled versions for editing and image-to-image followed in January 2026. Hy Image 3.5 preview, released on 22 September 2026, adds up to five reference images, multi-turn editing and 2K output, but it is available only through Tencent's apps and API, not as weights.
The weights are free to download from GitHub and Hugging Face under the Tencent Hunyuan Community License, which is not an open-source licence. It does not apply in the European Union, the United Kingdom or South Korea, products with more than 100 million monthly users need a separate licence from Tencent, and an acceptable-use policy applies. Southeast Asia falls inside the permitted territory. Running the full 3.0 model is heavy: Tencent recommends at least three 80 GB GPUs, and eight for the Instruct version. The smaller HunyuanImage 2.1, a 17B model for 2K images, fits in 24 GB with FP8.
Paid access is per image. On Tencent Cloud International, Hy Image 3.5 preview costs $0.024 an image at 1K or 2K and $0.032 at 4K, and HunyuanImage 3.0 costs $0.032; mainland prices are in yuan. Tencent's older image API platform no longer accepts new purchases, and consumers can use the models inside the Yuanbao app.
Tencent describes 3.0 as the largest open-source image-generation mixture-of-experts model at its release and says it can follow prompts of more than a thousand characters; both are the company's own claims. Earlier versions of this page called it the first major open image model from a Chinese lab, which was wrong. For teams that want strong Chinese-language prompt handling and can host large models, it is a serious option.
Compiled by RECATOOLS from public sources: vendor documentation and pricing, code repositories and published reporting.
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