DeepSeek R1 0528 vs Tencent Hy4 preview
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- R1 0528 is 1.2× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Hy4 preview accepts longer prompts: 1M vs 164K tokens.
- Hy4 preview is the newer model (released 2026-08-28).
| R1 0528 | Hy4 preview | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | DeepSeek | Tencent |
| Released | 2025-05-28 | 2026-08-28 |
| Input / 1M | $0.50 | $0.751 |
| Output / 1M | $2.15 | $2.25 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.35 | $0.038 |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.912 | $1.13 |
| Context | 164K | 1M |
| Max output | 33K | 64K |
| Accepts | text | text |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 3 | 7 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $2.15 | $2.25 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 99.51% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | Operational | — |
Cost calculator
R1 0528
$62.25 per month$2.08 per day
Hy4 preview
$78.80 per month$2.63 per day
R1 0528 saves $16.55 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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