Head to head · Open-weight models you run yourself · October 2026 research run
Hy3 vs MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B
Hy3 scores 62.6 (B) on agent readiness against MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B's 61 (C), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.
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Which one, for what
Hy3 B
Best for Teams with an 8-GPU server who want an agent-tuned MoE model under plain Apache 2.0
Ahead on
- Agent interface, 75 against 70
- Documentation and upkeep, 56 against 40
Also in its favour
- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.8 against 2.3 out of 5
Watch for
597.6 GB in BF16, 299.9 GB in FP8 and 168.5 GB at the smallest 4-bit build
Best for Researchers and agents that want a small coding and terminal-agent model to fine-tune further, on a 24 GB GPU or larger.
No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.
Watch for
Only BF16 from Xiaomi, about 23 GB to run
Score by category
| Category | Weight this run | Hy3 | MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capability | 35%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Reach | 25%25 | 70 | 70 | even |
| Risk | 20%20 | 60 | 60 | even |
| Agent interface | 10%10 | 75 | 70 | Hy3 +5 |
| Documentation and upkeep | 10%10 | 56 | 40 | Hy3 +16 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | B 62.6/100 | C 61/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | Hy3 | MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |
| Vendor | Tencent (Hy team) | Xiaomi (MiMo team) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | ||
| Auth | None | None |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | MIT (metadata only, no LICENSE file); built on Qwen3.5-9B under Apache 2.0 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2026-07-20 | 2026-09-21 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | ||
| Terms restrict automated access | ||
| Terms restrict benchmarking | ||
| Terms or service can change without notice | ||
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | ||
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 2.3/5 (4) |
Verdicts
Hy3
Hy3 is a 295B mixture-of-experts model with 21B active, trained for several tool calls a turn, with per-request reasoning effort and 256K of context. It needs an 8-GPU server for FP8 or about 200 GB for a 4-bit build. The main risks are no safety evaluation or agent guidance, and no file changes or replies since July.
MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B
A 9B cousin tuned on MiMo-V2.6's agent work for coding, terminal tasks and visual coding, released as a base for RL research. It needs about 23 GB in BF16, since Xiaomi ships no smaller build. The main risks are no safety results while a seventh of its tuning is offensive security, and nobody at Xiaomi answering reports.
Before you call either
Hy3
- Start it with vLLM on 8 GPUs, vllm serve tencent/Hy3-FP8 --tensor-parallel-size 8 --tool-call-parser hy_v3 --reasoning-parser hy_v3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --served-model-name hy3
- In SGLang use --tool-call-parser hunyuan --reasoning-parser hunyuan, as the card shows
- Pass reasoning_effort (no_think, low or high) in chat_template_kwargs; the default is no_think, and any other value raises a template error
- With the vLLM reasoning parser the chain of thought comes back in message.reasoning and the answer in message.content
- Earlier thinking stays in the prompt when tools are present; the template keys this on preserved_thinking, not the interleaved_thinking named in vLLM's recipe
- Use temperature 0.9 and top_p 1.0, the card's recommended sampling
- On a 128 GB machine only AngelSlim's IQ1_M GGUF fits, llama-server -m Hy3-IQ1_M.gguf -ctk q8_0 -ctv q8_0 -fa on -c 65536, with llama.cpp b11768 or later; at 89.4 GB × 1.2 it sits right at the 107.4 GB ceiling, so shorten the context if it fails to load, and expect a 1-bit build to fall short of Tencent's numbers
- Without the hardware, call it through Featherless AI or DeepInfra via Hugging Face's inference providers
MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B
- Serve it as the card does,
sglang serve --model-path XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B --reasoning-parser mimo, and add--tool-call-parser mimofor parsed tool calls - SGLang's mimo reasoning parser expects thinking to be asked for, so pass
chat_template_kwargswithenable_thinkingtrue, as the card does, and readreasoning_content - Calls come back as function and parameter blocks inside tool_call, the same shape vLLM's and SGLang's qwen3_coder parsers read
- The generation config samples at temperature 0.6, top_k 20 and top_p 0.95
- Images and video go in through Qwen3.5's processor; the template's audio tokens have no audio encoder behind them
- The MTP head isn't in the files, so skip MTP speculative decoding even though config.json lists a layer
- It's an SFT checkpoint meant for further RL, and discussions report runaway generation on llama.cpp, so cap max_tokens
Questions
Which is better for AI agents, Hy3 or MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B?
Hy3 scores 62.6 (B) on agent readiness against MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B's 61 (C), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories.
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