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Tencent's Hy4 preview ships 770B total parameters with 49B active under Apache 2.0 - a 1M-context text MoE with DeepSeek-style sparse attention, posted Terminal-Bench 85.4 and DeepSWE 64.3, and an OpenRouter price of $0.834/$2.501. Verified against the model card and the live OpenRouter page on August 31, 2026.
DeepSeek V4 Pro lands an 80.6 on SWE-bench Verified in Max reasoning mode at $0.66/$1.98 per million tokens off-peak, and Flash runs agent inner loops at $0.22/$0.66. Here is the worked cost math, the Flash-vs-Pro split, and a clear guide on when to route to DeepSeek instead of a frontier model.
Open weights are free to download, but inference is not free to run. Here is the honest break-even math on when self-hosting GLM-5.2, DeepSeek V4, or Llama beats paying per-token API prices - GPU rental and ownership costs, real throughput, utilization, the crossover in tokens per month, and the hidden ops bill nobody budgets for.
DeepSeek V4-Flash costs $0.28 per million output tokens. Fable 5 costs $50. That 178x gap is real - but so is the quality difference. Here is where it matters and where it does not.
Moonshot AI's Kimi CLI offers unlimited coding sessions at zero marginal cost. Claude Code offers polish, deep Anthropic integration, and a subscription most serious devs already hold. Here is how to decide.
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