Meta Llama 4 Scout vs Tencent Hy-MT2-30B-A3B
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
- Hy-MT2-30B-A3B is 1.2× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Llama 4 Scout accepts longer prompts: 1.3M vs 8K tokens.
- Hy-MT2-30B-A3B's best provider was more reliable over 24 h: 99.44% vs 98.0%.
- Hy-MT2-30B-A3B is the newer model (released 2026-08-20).
| Llama 4 Scout | Hy-MT2-30B-A3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Meta | Tencent |
| Released | 2025-04-05 | 2026-08-20 |
| Input / 1M | $0.10 | $0.074 |
| Output / 1M | $0.30 | $0.295 |
| Cached input / 1M | — | — |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.15 | $0.129 |
| Context | 1.3M | 8K |
| Max output | 16K | 4K |
| Accepts | text, image | text |
| Reasoning | No | No |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 4 | 1 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $0.30 | $0.295 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 98.0% | 99.44% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | — | — |
Cost calculator
Llama 4 Scout
$10.50 per month$0.35 per day
Hy-MT2-30B-A3B
$8.87 per month$0.30 per day
Hy-MT2-30B-A3B saves $1.63 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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