Qwen2.5 7B Instruct vs Tencent Hy-MT2-1.8B
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-MT2-1.8B is 1.6× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct accepts longer prompts: 33K vs 8K tokens.
- Hy-MT2-1.8B is the newer model (released 2026-08-20).
| Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | Hy-MT2-1.8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Qwen | Tencent |
| Released | 2024-10-16 | 2026-08-20 |
| Input / 1M | $0.10 | $0.044 |
| Output / 1M | $0.20 | $0.177 |
| Cached input / 1M | — | — |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.125 | $0.077 |
| Context | 33K | 8K |
| Max output | 29K | 4K |
| Accepts | text | text |
| Reasoning | No | No |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 1 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $0.20 | $0.177 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 99.86% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | Operational | — |
Cost calculator
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
$9.00 per month$0.30 per day
Hy-MT2-1.8B
$5.29 per month$0.18 per day
Hy-MT2-1.8B saves $3.71 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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