{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "hy4", "name": "Tencent Hy4", "vendor": "Tencent (Hy team)", "vendorUrl": "https://aistudio.tencent.com", "kind": "model", "category": "inference", "summary": "Tencent Hy4 is Tencent's flagship language model, released on 4 November 2026 with image understanding and computer use, served on Tencent Cloud TokenHub as hy4 with a 1M-token context, at ¥6 input and ¥18 output per million tokens.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hy4", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hy4.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hy4.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hy4.json", "dns": "hy4.grade.anchorterminal.com", "license": "Hosted model under the Tencent Cloud TokenHub terms. Tencent says weights and a system card will follow; no licence is stated yet", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "A TokenHub bearer key (or `x-api-key` on the Anthropic-style route) from a Tencent Cloud account with real-name verification, per the tencent-tokenhub listing. Keys can be limited by model, service, IP range and token quota.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "¥6 input, ¥0.3 cached input and ¥18 output per million tokens on TokenHub, billed at 50% until 31 December 2026 (Beijing time), per the price page updated 9 November 2026. Tencent's release gives about US$0.90, US$0.045 and US$2.70. No free allowance named for hy4 on the price page.", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in Tencent's release or TokenHub's price page, 11 November 2026.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-11" }, "docsUrl": "https://cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1823/130051", "llmsTxt": "https://cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1823/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "inference.llm" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "model", "multimodal", "reasoning", "long-context", "tool-calling", "usage-priced", "openai-compatible", "anthropic-compatible", "chinese", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-11-04", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 64, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 595, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1524, "categoryRank": 25, "methodology": "0.8", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 86, "maintenance": 73, "payments": 45, "reliability": 46, "schema": 73, "security": 71, "transparency": 52 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-11" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Tencent's flagship model is on TokenHub as hy4, with a 1M-token context, image understanding, function calling and caching, at ¥6 input and ¥18 output per million tokens, half price until the end of 2026. The weights it is called open source for aren't published yet, and every benchmark is Tencent's own.", "bestFor": "Long-context agent work, coding and office or finance tasks on a 1M-token context with images, for teams already on Tencent Cloud or happy to verify an account there.", "strengths": [ "1M-token context with 960K input and 64K output, per TokenHub's model list", "Image understanding, function calling, structured output, thinking and caching are marked for hy4", "Prices published: ¥6 input, ¥0.3 cached, ¥18 output per million tokens, billed at 50% until 31 December 2026", "OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints on TokenHub, so existing SDKs work with a changed base URL", "Tencent says it's the same price as Hy4 preview despite the upgrade" ], "weaknesses": [ "Weights, licence and system card are promised but not published; tencent/Hy4 didn't answer on Hugging Face on 11 November", "Computer use, which Tencent's release names, isn't marked in TokenHub's model list", "TokenHub needs real-name verification, and the international site answers with a bot check", "No public status page for TokenHub", "Every benchmark in the release is Tencent's own or a partner's, several of them internal" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use model id hy4 on TokenHub's OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible endpoints; hy4-preview is a separate, older model", "Keep input under 960K tokens and expect at most 64K output", "Reuse prompt prefixes: cached input is ¥0.3 against ¥6", "Check the price page for the end of the 50% discount on 31 December 2026 before budgeting", "Read rate limits from the console or DescribeModelQuota; the public docs don't give them for chat models" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.8", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 64 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 86, "maintenance": 73, "payments": 45, "reliability": 46, "schema": 73, "security": 71, "transparency": 55 }, "provenanceScore": 49, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-11", "maintenance": "2026-11-11", "payments": "2026-11-11", "reliability": "2026-11-11", "schema": "2026-11-11", "security": "2026-11-11", "transparency": "2026-11-11" }, "last": "2026-11-11", "lastMoved": "2026-11-13", "oldest": "2026-11-11", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://tokenhub.tencentmaas.com/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $TOKENHUB_API_KEY\" -H \"content-type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"model\":\"hy4\",\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"hello\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm", "tool": "https://letme.dev/hy4" }, "sameCompany": [ "hy-memory", "tencentdb-agent-memory", "hunyuanocr", "octop", "hy-memory-30b-a3b", "hy3", "wevisone-vl-2b", "wevisone-vl-4b" ], "sameModel": [ "tencent-tokenhub" ], "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Hy4 input", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.9, "note": "¥6 list, about US$0.90 per Tencent; billed at 50% until 31 December 2026" }, { "item": "Hy4 cached input", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.045, "note": "¥0.3 list" }, { "item": "Hy4 output", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 2.7, "note": "¥18 list" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Tencent Cloud Computing (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (腾讯云计算（北京）有限责任公司)", "domain": "tencentmaas.com", "domainRegistered": "2026-03-13", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://cloud.tencent.com/document/product/301/129852", "privacy": "https://privacy.qq.com/document/preview/91d5fd3c98ce4468ae462ac59233bba2", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1823/130675", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-11", "notes": [ "The TokenHub Terms of Service (effective 14 September 2026), the SLA (effective 23 April 2026) and the special note on third-party deployed models (effective 14 September 2026) name 腾讯云计算（北京）有限责任公司. The docs footer also names 深圳市腾讯计算机系统有限公司 as ICP licence holder.", "The TokenHub privacy policy is linked from the docs to privacy.qq.com, which renders only with JavaScript, so it was not read. privacy.qq.com has no robots.txt (404).", "No public status page was found. status.cloud.tencent.com did not answer, and the Tencent Cloud health dashboard documentation answered with a bot check.", "security.txt answered 404 on cloud.tencent.com, www.tencent.com and tokenhub.tencentmaas.com. Tencent's bug bounty policy at en.security.tencent.com lists Tencent Cloud in scope.", "RDAP at Verisign gives tencentmaas.com a registration date of 13 March 2026 with no registrant. The API answers at tokenhub.tencentmaas.com and tokenhub-intl.tencentmaas.com, named in Tencent Cloud's API usage page.", "cloud.tencent.com allows these docs in robots.txt. Its pages answered some requests with a JavaScript bot check, which was not passed. The pages were read when a later plain request returned them. www.tencentcloud.com answered robots.txt with a bot check, so the international site was not read." ], "score": 49 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hy4.json", "live": { "slug": "hy4", "securityTxt": { "url": "https://tencentmaas.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "unknown", "checkedAt": "2026-11-13T16:16:35.489580858Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1823/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-13T15:54:34.939672287Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1823/130675", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-13T18:11:34.856577424Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e3b0c44298fc" }, { "url": "https://privacy.qq.com/document/preview/91d5fd3c98ce4468ae462ac59233bba2", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-13T18:28:00.062507799Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e3b0c44298fc" }, { "url": "https://cloud.tencent.com/document/product/301/129852", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-13T18:11:36.909670614Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e3b0c44298fc" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-11-13T18:28:00.062507799Z" } }, "answer": "Tencent Hy4 scores 64 (B) on agent readiness against RouterPlus's 52.8 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. RouterPlus leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "routerplus", "name": "RouterPlus", "vendor": "RouterPlus", "vendorUrl": "https://routerplus.com", "kind": "router", "category": "inference", "summary": "RouterPlus is an LLM gateway that puts Claude, GPT, open-weight, image, video and decision models behind one API key and a prepaid balance, with OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible endpoints.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/routerplus", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/routerplus.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/routerplus.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/routerplus.json", "dns": "routerplus.grade.anchorterminal.com", "license": "Closed service. No terms of service for the gateway were found on routerplus.com or app.routerplus.com on 13 October 2026. The only terms on the site govern the capacity request form and name EVO HQ Inc, a Delaware corporation (https://routerplus.com/capacity/terms/).", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.routerplus.com/v1", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "A `tm_vk_` virtual key, sent as `Authorization: Bearer` or `x-api-key` on every route. A person signs up in the browser through Clerk with email verification, and the first key is shown once after sign-in. More keys come from the console or from `POST /api/identity/keys` with a console session. The programmatic signup route `POST /v1/signup` was removed and returns 404 (https://app.routerplus.com/docs/authentication.md, https://app.routerplus.com/docs/api-signup.md).", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Provider list prices per 1M tokens with no markup, paid from prepaid credits. Purchases start at $10, and RouterPlus matches the first $100 of purchases for eligible accounts. Signup adds no free credit. Inference through the caller's own provider keys (BYOK) carries no RouterPlus charge and needs no credit. Prices are public in the docs catalogue and the model pages without a login (https://app.routerplus.com/docs/models.md, https://app.routerplus.com/docs/pricing.md).", "priceSummary": "0% fee", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in https://app.routerplus.com/llms-full.txt, checked 13 October 2026. Calls draw on a prepaid balance bought in the console's Billing page.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-13" }, "docsUrl": "https://app.routerplus.com/docs/overview", "llmsTxt": "https://app.routerplus.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "inference.router", "inference.llm", "inference.decision", "image.generate" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "router", "closed-source", "usage-priced", "prepaid", "llms-txt", "openai-compatible", "anthropic-compatible", "streaming" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 52.8, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1049, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1524, "categoryRank": 41, "methodology": "0.8", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 71, "maintenance": 44, "payments": 60, "reliability": 42, "schema": 59, "security": 59, "transparency": 41 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-04" }, "negative": -2, "negativeNotes": [ "Misleading claims, seen 13 October and again on 4 November 2026, one term. The banner on https://routerplus.com/ reads \"Try RouterPlus with free credits\", while the quickstart (https://app.routerplus.com/docs/quickstart.md) says \"Signup does not add free credit\" and the playground bills the organisation's credits. Only an invitation link adds credit. On 4 November 2026 the homepage FAQ also says \"The gateway does not store prompts or completions\", while the data policy (https://app.routerplus.com/docs/data-policy.md) says requests and responses to non-dedicated endpoints are logged for up to 30 days. Repeats of one kind fold into one term. -2." ], "verdict": "The docs are written for agents, every model price is public, and each response carries its own cost. No terms of service, privacy policy, status page or changelog were found. Request content is now logged for 30 days by default while the homepage says prompts aren't stored, and signup adds no free credit.", "bestFor": "Teams that call Claude, GPT and open-weight models from one key and want the cost of every call in the response, with their own provider keys where they have them.", "strengths": [ "llms.txt, llms-full.txt and a Markdown copy of every page, with an integration guide written for coding agents", "Every billed response carries `usage.cost` in USD, and `GET /v1/generation` lists each attempt behind a request", "Any chat model answers on both the OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible surfaces, with the format translated by the gateway", "Typed errors with a stable `error_type`, an origin header, a retry rule per class and `retry-after` on rate-limit 429s", "105 chat models from 18 providers on 4 November 2026, and BYOK inference carries no RouterPlus charge" ], "weaknesses": [ "No terms of service, privacy policy, status page, changelog or security.txt found for the gateway", "Request and response content to non-dedicated endpoints is logged for up to 30 days by default, and opting out takes a request to support", "Signup adds no free credit, purchases start at $10, and keys stay at 20 requests a minute until the first purchase", "No idempotency keys, no batch route and no embeddings, and the `zdr` and `regions` filters remove every marketplace route", "Optimize, the eval-based model search the homepage leads with, is paused" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `max_tokens` on every request. Without it the balance hold assumes up to 32,768 output tokens and can return `insufficient_quota` on a small balance", "Switch on `error_type`. Retry `rate_limit` after `retry-after`, and stop on `insufficient_quota`, which needs a person to add credit or raise a cap", "Don't add a retry loop on top of the SDK's. There is no idempotency key, so a retry that reaches a provider is billed again", "Keep secrets out of prompts. Request content is logged for up to 30 days unless the organisation has opted out through support", "Use `/v1/messages` for Claude when you need `thinking` or server tools. `response_format` works for GPT ids and open models, not Claude" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.8", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 52.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 71, "maintenance": 44, "payments": 60, "reliability": 42, "schema": 59, "security": 59, "transparency": 26 }, "provenanceScore": 55, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-04", "maintenance": "2026-11-04", "payments": "2026-11-04", "reliability": "2026-11-04", "schema": "2026-11-04", "security": "2026-11-04", "transparency": "2026-11-04" }, "last": "2026-11-04", "lastMoved": "2026-11-13", "oldest": "2026-11-04", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl -N https://api.routerplus.com/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $TM_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"content-type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"model\":\"claude-haiku-4-5\",\"stream\":true,\"max_tokens\":60,\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"hello\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.router", "tool": "https://letme.dev/routerplus" }, "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Markup on provider token prices", "unit": "pct", "usd": 0, "note": "Pass-through per the pricing docs. Credits are bought in $10 steps or more" }, { "item": "Claude Opus 5.5 input", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 4, "note": "claude-opus-5-5, served by Anthropic's API" }, { "item": "Claude Opus 5.5 output", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 20 }, { "item": "GPT-6.1 Sol input", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 2, "note": "gpt-6.1-sol, served by OpenAI's API, 1,050,000-token context" }, { "item": "GPT-6.1 Sol output", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 10 }, { "item": "Anthropic web search server tool", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 10, "note": "$10 per 1,000 searches, Anthropic's price, on top of tokens" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "EVO HQ Inc", "domain": "routerplus.com", "domainRegistered": "2014-04-15", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-04", "notes": [ "EVO HQ Inc, a Delaware corporation, is named only in the terms of the capacity request form at https://routerplus.com/capacity/terms/ (effective and last updated 1 August 2026), which govern form submissions and not the gateway. The footer elsewhere reads © 2026 RouterPlus.", "No terms of service or privacy policy for the gateway were found, re-checked on 4 November 2026. The footer's Privacy and Security links open an email to founders@evo-hq.com. The docs' data policy page (https://app.routerplus.com/docs/data-policy.md) is the only data statement for the gateway.", "No status page. Model pages show per-provider uptime over the last 24 hours, with no incident history. Requests to status.routerplus.com failed at our proxy with a 502 on 13 October and 4 November 2026, so whether it exists is unchecked.", "No changelog found. The blog's newest post is dated 27 October 2026, and its 13 October 2026 post dates the ScaleDown models' launch. The docs date one console change, key copying from 17 October 2026.", "routerplus.com/.well-known/security.txt and app.routerplus.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 404 on 4 November 2026.", "routerplus.com/robots.txt carries only commented content-signal definitions and a sitemap line, with no rules and no Content-Signal directive (4 November 2026)." ], "score": 55 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/routerplus.json", "live": { "slug": "routerplus", "probe": { "target": "https://api.routerplus.com/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-13T23:58:58.932757734Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 517, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 99.53, "p50ms24h": 520, "p95ms24h": 598, "samples24h": 239, "samples30d": 7648, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 4, "ok": 4 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 253, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-16", "probes": 252, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 256, "ok": 256 }, { "date": "2026-10-19", "probes": 255, "ok": 255 }, { "date": "2026-10-20", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-22", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-23", "probes": 248, "ok": 239 }, { "date": "2026-10-24", "probes": 251, "ok": 230 }, { "date": "2026-10-25", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-26", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-27", "probes": 249, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-28", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-29", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-30", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-31", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-11-01", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-11-02", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-11-03", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-11-04", "probes": 246, "ok": 245 }, { "date": "2026-11-05", "probes": 185, "ok": 185 }, { "date": "2026-11-06", "probes": 241, "ok": 241 }, { "date": "2026-11-07", "probes": 243, "ok": 243 }, { "date": "2026-11-08", "probes": 243, "ok": 243 }, { "date": "2026-11-09", "probes": 243, "ok": 243 }, { "date": "2026-11-10", "probes": 244, "ok": 244 }, { "date": "2026-11-11", "probes": 244, "ok": 244 }, { "date": "2026-11-12", "probes": 245, "ok": 245 }, { "date": "2026-11-13", "probes": 238, "ok": 238 } ], "outages": [ { "start": "2026-10-24T05:05:33.613541379Z", "end": "2026-10-24T07:08:12.366400327Z", "note": "HTTP 522 server error" }, { "start": "2026-10-23T17:39:27.824091162Z", "end": "2026-10-23T17:56:26.642152403Z", "note": "timed out" } ], "since": "2026-10-13T00:00:00Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://routerplus.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-11-10T00:00:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-11-13T16:16:39.154849697Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://app.routerplus.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-13T15:55:54.485112252Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "routerplus.com", "registered": "2014-04-15", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/routerplus.com", "checkedAt": "2026-11-08T14:51:54.401196793Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://app.routerplus.com/docs/pricing.md", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-13T18:09:28.169036234Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-11T16:50:50.465364644Z", "fingerprint": "f863d76c7541" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-11-13T23:58:58.932757734Z" }, "streak": { "days": 21, "from": "2026-10-24", "last": { "kind": "outage", "date": "2026-10-24", "what": "HTTP 522 server error", "lasted": "2 hours" }, "best": 21 } }, "edges": [ { "by": 29, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "hy4", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "Model reading for hy4 on Tencent Cloud TokenHub. Platform facts are the tencent-tokenhub listing's (checked 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Added on 4 November 2026 per the release notes; the model list and price page were updated on 9 November (30). Retirement notices of 21 to 33 days, no minimum written (7 of 12). Heavy retirement churn on the platform (3 of 8). Dated release notes and announcements, round-the-clock support (13 of 15). CLI replies not sampled (3 of 10). Control-plane SDKs and CLI, no inference SDK of its own (12 of 15). CLI runtime stated, CI not checked (5 of 10). 30 + 7 + 3 + 13 + 3 + 12 + 5 = 73. The model is a week old, so these lines are TokenHub's habits more than Hy4's record.", "b": "Router, read on the model lines. No changelog or release notes found. The blog, re-read on 4 November 2026, dates the launch of ScaleDown's extract-1 and summarize-1 on chat completions and classify-1 on the decisions API to 13 October 2026, and the catalogue now lists 105 chat models against 19 on 13 October, so the API changed within the last 30 days (30). The docs also date a console change on 17 October 2026 (keys can be copied again), which isn't counted, since it changes the console and not the API. Models carry a `deprecation_date` that delists them automatically, with no notice period stated (3 of 12). `POST /v1/signup` and the magic-link route were removed and Optimize is paused, none with a date we could find (3 of 8). No public changelog. Support is reached through the console and an email address, and wasn't tested (3 of 15). No public issue tracker for the gateway (0 of 10). No official SDK. The docs rely on the OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs and give client setups (5 of 15). No package or public repository to check (0 of 10)." }, "scores": { "a": 73, "b": 44 } }, { "by": 15, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "hy4", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "Model reading for hy4 on Tencent Cloud TokenHub. Platform facts are the tencent-tokenhub listing's (checked 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Function calling is marked for hy4 in the model list (18 of 20). Structured output marked (13 of 15). Cache-hit price published, ¥0.3 against ¥6 input (14 of 15). 1M-token context with 960K input and 64K output (15). Batch at half price covered Hy3 and Hy4 preview on 1 November; whether it covers hy4 wasn't re-read (3 of 10). OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs with a changed base URL, plus Tencent Cloud's SDK and CLI for the control plane (8 of 10). Errors with code, messages, upstream status and request ID (15 of 15). 18 + 13 + 14 + 15 + 3 + 8 + 15 = 86.", "b": "Router, read on the model lines (tool use, structured output, caching, context, batch, SDKs, errors). Tools pass through on both surfaces, and Anthropic server tools such as web search work for Claude models on `/v1/messages`. Behaviour depends on the model (15 of 20). `response_format` works for GPT ids and the open models (re-read on 4 November 2026), and the docs tell callers to get JSON from Claude through a single tool, so structured output still rests on the provider (8 of 15, held). Cached-input and cache-write prices per model, a session id that keeps provider caches warm, and `cache_control` on the Anthropic surface (13 of 15). The catalogue's largest contexts are 1,050,000 tokens on GPT-6.1 Sol and 1,000,000 on Claude Sonnet 5.5, a judgement call since a router has no default model (15). No batch route (0 of 10). No SDK of its own. The OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs work with a changed base URL, and the docs give setups for ten coding tools (5 of 10). A stable `error_type` in every body and header, an origin header, the limit that refused a request, and `x-tm-dropped-params` naming every dropped field (15)." }, "scores": { "a": 86, "b": 71 } }, { "by": 15, "category": "payments", "leads": "routerplus", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "Model reading for hy4 on Tencent Cloud TokenHub. Platform facts are the tencent-tokenhub listing's (checked 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. No machine payment protocol (0). The price page, updated 9 November, lists ¥6 input, ¥0.3 cached and ¥18 output per million tokens, with Hy4 billed at 50% until 31 December 2026 (20). TokenHub's campaign of 1M free tokens per language model, read on 1 November, isn't confirmed for hy4 on the price page, so half (10 of 20, a judgement call). A person signs up with real-name verification (0). 0 + 20 + 10 + 0 = 30. Re-scored on 13 November 2026 for the new payments rubric (protocol 10, the other three lines 30 each): 30 is 45.", "b": "No machine payment protocol found in llms-full.txt. Calls draw on a prepaid balance (0). Per-token prices for every model are public in the docs catalogue and on the model pages with no login, re-read on 4 November 2026 (20). Signup adds no free credit, but inference through the caller's own provider keys carries no RouterPlus charge and needs no credit, the reading Cloudflare AI Gateway's dossier took for the same arrangement. We did not sign up to confirm that no card is asked for (20). A person signs up in the browser through Clerk with email verification, and the programmatic signup route was removed (0). Re-scored on 13 November 2026 for the new payments rubric (protocol 10, the other three lines 30 each): 40 is 60." }, "scores": { "a": 45, "b": 60 } }, { "by": 14, "category": "schema", "leads": "hy4", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "Model reading for hy4 on Tencent Cloud TokenHub. Platform facts are the tencent-tokenhub listing's (checked 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. No OpenAPI file for inference; field pages for the OpenAI and Anthropic formats as TokenHub implements them (12 of 25). llms.txt with Markdown copies (10). The model list, updated 9 November, gives hy4's context, input and output limits and marks thinking, structured output, function calling, caching and image understanding; computer use, which Tencent's release names, isn't marked (13 of 20). Typed field pages (10 of 15). Examples in five languages and an error page of 30 codes (14 of 15). Dated release notes, with hy4 added on 4 November (14 of 15). 12 + 10 + 13 + 10 + 14 + 14 = 73.", "b": "Router, scored on the API lines. No OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract for the gateway was found. It follows the OpenAI and Anthropic wire formats, which this checklist doesn't credit to a reseller, the same reading as Antseed (0 of 25). llms.txt, llms-full.txt and a Markdown copy of every page (10). Each route page says what it is for, what isn't available, and which route to use for which model, and the agent integration guide lists what not to build on (18 of 20). Request fields follow the upstream formats, and the wire compatibility page tables which fields pass, translate, drop or fail with a typed 400 (12 of 15). Curl, Python and TypeScript examples on every page, and an error reference with a class, status and remedy for each error (15). Routes are versioned under /v1 and the wire compatibility page says changing it needs a recorded decision, but no changelog or dated release notes were found, re-read on 4 November 2026 (4 of 15)." }, "scores": { "a": 73, "b": 59 } }, { "by": 12, "category": "security", "leads": "hy4", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "Model reading for hy4 on Tencent Cloud TokenHub. Platform facts are the tencent-tokenhub listing's (checked 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Bearer keys limited by model, service, IP range and token quota, long-lived with no rotation (26 of 30). The terms say inputs aren't used to train Tencent Cloud's own models, and Hy4 is first party, so no third party's terms apply (14 of 20). Retention only as long as the service needs, no periods (7 of 15). Per-call audit logs and optional full logs to the customer's CLS (14 of 15). No security.txt; Tencent's TSRC bounty covers Tencent Cloud; no certification checked (10 of 20). 26 + 14 + 7 + 14 + 10 = 71.", "b": "Router, read on the model lines. `tm_vk_` keys are stored as SHA-256 hashes and revocable, each bound to a workspace and principal, with per-key RPM and monthly spend caps. Since 17 October 2026 the console also keeps an encrypted copy so an owner or admin can copy a key again, and an organisation can ask for copying to be turned off. Inference keys have no management rights. There are no permission scopes on a key and no SSO or SCIM (24 of 30). RouterPlus says it does not train on request logs and does not share them, and deletes them after 30 days. Most Claude and GPT routes are marked `prompt_logging: retained` with no ZDR, so retention and training upstream rest on each provider's API terms, while DeepInfra's open models, Perplexity, Cloudflare Workers AI, Fastino and RouterPlus's own models declare `none` (12 of 20, held). The data policy re-read on 4 November 2026 says requests and responses to non-dedicated endpoints are now logged by default for up to 30 days for debugging, with recognised keys removed. On 13 October it said content was kept only for hackathon accounts. Opting out takes a request to support, dedicated endpoints are excluded, and the `zdr` and `data_collection: deny` filters still remove every marketplace route, so they work only on the caller's own provider keys. Cloudflare AI Gateway, with default logging and a per-request header to switch it off, has 11 here (7 of 15, 10 before). `GET /v1/generation` lists every attempt behind a request with provider, tokens and cost, and the console has usage and logs (14 of 15). No security.txt (404 on both hosts on 4 November 2026), disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification found. The footer's Security link is an email to founders@evo-hq.com (2 of 20). 24 + 12 + 7 + 14 + 2 = 59." }, "scores": { "a": 71, "b": 59 } }, { "by": 11, "category": "transparency", "leads": "hy4", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "Model reading for hy4 on Tencent Cloud TokenHub. Platform facts are the tencent-tokenhub listing's (checked 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Closed service under the TokenHub terms, but Tencent's release headline calls Hy4 open source while the weights and system card are only promised 'in the coming days', with no licence stated, and tencent/Hy4 didn't answer on Hugging Face on 11 November (14 of 30). Terms and FAQ agree inputs aren't used for training; the privacy policy renders only with JavaScript and wasn't read (15 of 30). Dated retirement notices and shutdown fields (13 of 20). Processing generally in mainland China for the China site, Singapore for the international one (13 of 20). Every benchmark in the release is Tencent's own or a partner's. 14 + 15 + 13 + 13 = 55.", "b": "Closed service with no terms of service found. The only terms on the site govern the capacity request form, under EVO HQ Inc (0 of 30). The data policy page is detailed, lists what is stored and why, and gives a 30-day period for request logs and each provider's retention flag. Its 4 November 2026 text, which logs request content by default, no longer agrees with the homepage FAQ; that contradiction is charged once as a misleading claim under negative events, not on this line. There is no privacy policy, no DPA and no retention period for account data such as email addresses (14 of 30, held). Model retirement by `deprecation_date` is documented with no notice period, and no dated deprecation notices were found (4 of 20). The docs name Clerk, Resend and an AWS bucket, and say RouterPlus's own GPUs run in the United States. The form's terms name Supabase, Cloudflare and Resend. No complete subprocessor list or gateway hosting location was found (8 of 20)." }, "scores": { "a": 52, "b": 41 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "Model API", "b": "Model router", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Tencent (Hy team)", "b": "RouterPlus", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://api.routerplus.com/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Hosted model under the Tencent Cloud TokenHub terms. Tencent says weights and a system card will follow; no licence is stated yet", "b": "Closed service. No terms of service for the gateway were found on routerplus.com or app.routerplus.com on 13 October 2026. The only terms on the site govern the capacity request form and name EVO HQ Inc, a Delaware corporation (https://routerplus.com/capacity/terms/).", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-11-04", "b": "none", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Tencent Hy4 scores 64 (B) on agent readiness against RouterPlus's 52.8 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. RouterPlus leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Tencent Hy4 or RouterPlus?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do Tencent Hy4 and RouterPlus need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Tencent Hy4. RouterPlus has a hosted endpoint at https://api.routerplus.com/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call Tencent Hy4 and RouterPlus without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 73 against 59", "Agent ergonomics, 86 against 71", "Security \u0026 auth, 71 against 59", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 73 against 44", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 52 against 41" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Long-context agent work, coding and office or finance tasks on a 1M-token context with images, for teams already on Tencent Cloud or happy to verify an account there.", "slug": "hy4", "watchFor": "Weights, licence and system card are promised but not published; tencent/Hy4 didn't answer on Hugging Face on 11 November" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 45" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "Teams that call Claude, GPT and open-weight models from one key and want the cost of every call in the response, with their own provider keys where they have them.", "slug": "routerplus", "watchFor": "No terms of service, privacy policy, status page, changelog or security.txt found for the gateway" } ], "history": { "hy4": [ { "causes": [ "method" ], "date": "2026-11-13", "delta": 1.8, "from": 62.2, "fromGrade": "B", "to": 64, "toGrade": "B" } ], "routerplus": [ { "causes": [ "method" ], "date": "2026-11-13", "delta": 2.5, "from": 50.3, "fromGrade": "D", "to": 52.8, "toGrade": "D" }, { "causes": [ "product", "correction" ], "date": "2026-11-04", "delta": -1.1, "from": 51.4, "fromGrade": "D", "to": 50.3, "toGrade": "D" }, { "causes": [ "method" ], "date": "2026-10-28", "delta": 0.1, "from": 51.3, "fromGrade": "D", "to": 51.4, "toGrade": "D" } ] }, "job": { "capability": "inference.llm", "name": "LLM inference" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-vs-hy4.json", "title": "Amazon Bedrock vs Tencent Hy4", "url": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy4-vs-simplismart" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy4-vs-stepfun-api.json", "title": "Tencent Hy4 vs StepFun API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy4-vs-stepfun-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy4-vs-swe-2-flash.json", "title": "Tencent Hy4 vs SWE-2 Flash", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy4-vs-swe-2-flash" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy4-vs-tencent-tokenhub.json", "title": "Tencent Hy4 vs Tencent Cloud TokenHub", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy4-vs-tencent-tokenhub" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy4-vs-together-inference.json", "title": "Tencent Hy4 vs Together AI Inference", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy4-vs-together-inference" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy4-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "Tencent Hy4 vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy4-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy4-vs-vertex-ai.json", "title": "Tencent Hy4 vs Vertex AI (Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy4-vs-vertex-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy4-vs-xai-api.json", "title": "Tencent Hy4 vs xAI API (Grok)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy4-vs-xai-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "Jais 3 vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/meta-model-api-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "Meta Model API vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/meta-model-api-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "MiniMax API vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-api-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-api-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "Mistral AI API vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-api-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/muse-ember-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "Muse Ember vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/muse-ember-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/muse-spark-open-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "Muse Spark Open vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/muse-spark-open-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-super-vl-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "Nemotron 3.5 Super VL vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-super-vl-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/novita-ai-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "Novita AI vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/novita-ai-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-api-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "OpenAI API vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-api-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openrouter-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "OpenRouter vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openrouter-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prism-inference-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "Prism Inference vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prism-inference-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-beam-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "Beam 1.0 vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-beam-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-sambanova.json", "title": "RouterPlus vs SambaCloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-sambanova" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-siliconflow.json", "title": "RouterPlus vs SiliconFlow", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-siliconflow" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-simplismart.json", "title": "RouterPlus vs Simplismart", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-simplismart" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-stepfun-api.json", "title": "RouterPlus vs StepFun API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-stepfun-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-swe-2-flash.json", "title": "RouterPlus vs SWE-2 Flash", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-swe-2-flash" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-together-inference.json", "title": "RouterPlus vs Together AI Inference", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-together-inference" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-vertex-ai.json", "title": "RouterPlus vs Vertex AI (Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-vertex-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-xai-api.json", "title": "RouterPlus vs xAI API (Grok)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-xai-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "Antseed vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eden-ai-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "Eden AI vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/eden-ai-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hugging-face-inference-providers-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "Hugging Face Inference Providers vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hugging-face-inference-providers-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/litellm-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "LiteLLM vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/litellm-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ramp-router-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "Router.com (Ramp Router) vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ramp-router-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-tencent-tokenhub.json", "title": "RouterPlus vs Tencent Cloud TokenHub", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-tencent-tokenhub" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "RouterPlus vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 4, "edge": "hy4", "hy4": 46, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "routerplus": 42, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 14, "edge": "hy4", "hy4": 73, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "routerplus": 59, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 15, "edge": "hy4", "hy4": 86, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "routerplus": 71, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 12, "edge": "hy4", "hy4": 71, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "routerplus": 59, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 15, "edge": "routerplus", "hy4": 45, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "routerplus": 60, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 29, "edge": "hy4", "hy4": 73, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "routerplus": 44, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 11, "edge": "hy4", "hy4": 52, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "routerplus": 41, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Tencent Hy4 scores 64 (B) on agent readiness against RouterPlus's 52.8 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. RouterPlus leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do llm inference.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "hy4": "Tencent's flagship model is on TokenHub as hy4, with a 1M-token context, image understanding, function calling and caching, at ¥6 input and ¥18 output per million tokens, half price until the end of 2026. The weights it is called open source for aren't published yet, and every benchmark is Tencent's own.", "routerplus": "The docs are written for agents, every model price is public, and each response carries its own cost. No terms of service, privacy policy, status page or changelog were found. Request content is now logged for 30 days by default while the homepage says prompts aren't stored, and signup adds no free credit." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy4-vs-routerplus", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy4-vs-routerplus.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy4-vs-routerplus.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy4-vs-routerplus.min.md" }, "markdown": "Tencent Hy4 scores 64 (B) on agent readiness against RouterPlus's 52.8 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. RouterPlus leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do llm inference.\n\n- Tencent Hy4: grade B, 64/100, rank #595 of 1524. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hy4.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hy4.json\n- RouterPlus: grade D, 52.8/100, rank #1049 of 1524. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/routerplus.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/routerplus.json\n- Best model APIs and inference for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/inference/index.md\n- All 1044 models comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inference/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Tencent Hy4 (B)\n\nGood for: Long-context agent work, coding and office or finance tasks on a 1M-token context with images, for teams already on Tencent Cloud or happy to verify an account there.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 73 against 59\n- Agent ergonomics, 86 against 71\n- Security \u0026 auth, 71 against 59\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 73 against 44\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 52 against 41\n\nWatch for: Weights, licence and system card are promised but not published; tencent/Hy4 didn't answer on Hugging Face on 11 November\n\n### RouterPlus (D)\n\nGood for: Teams that call Claude, GPT and open-weight models from one key and want the cost of every call in the response, with their own provider keys where they have them.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 45\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: No terms of service, privacy policy, status page, changelog or security.txt found for the gateway\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Tencent Hy4 +29\n\n- Tencent Hy4 (73): Model reading for hy4 on Tencent Cloud TokenHub. Platform facts are the tencent-tokenhub listing's (checked 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Added on 4 November 2026 per the release notes; the model list and price page were updated on 9 November (30). Retirement notices of 21 to 33 days, no minimum written (7 of 12). Heavy retirement churn on the platform (3 of 8). Dated release notes and announcements, round-the-clock support (13 of 15). CLI replies not sampled (3 of 10). Control-plane SDKs and CLI, no inference SDK of its own (12 of 15). CLI runtime stated, CI not checked (5 of 10). 30 + 7 + 3 + 13 + 3 + 12 + 5 = 73. The model is a week old, so these lines are TokenHub's habits more than Hy4's record.\n- RouterPlus (44): Router, read on the model lines. No changelog or release notes found. The blog, re-read on 4 November 2026, dates the launch of ScaleDown's extract-1 and summarize-1 on chat completions and classify-1 on the decisions API to 13 October 2026, and the catalogue now lists 105 chat models against 19 on 13 October, so the API changed within the last 30 days (30). The docs also date a console change on 17 October 2026 (keys can be copied again), which isn't counted, since it changes the console and not the API. Models carry a `deprecation_date` that delists them automatically, with no notice period stated (3 of 12). `POST /v1/signup` and the magic-link route were removed and Optimize is paused, none with a date we could find (3 of 8). No public changelog. Support is reached through the console and an email address, and wasn't tested (3 of 15). No public issue tracker for the gateway (0 of 10). No official SDK. The docs rely on the OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs and give client setups (5 of 15). No package or public repository to check (0 of 10).\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Tencent Hy4 +15\n\n- Tencent Hy4 (86): Model reading for hy4 on Tencent Cloud TokenHub. Platform facts are the tencent-tokenhub listing's (checked 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Function calling is marked for hy4 in the model list (18 of 20). Structured output marked (13 of 15). Cache-hit price published, ¥0.3 against ¥6 input (14 of 15). 1M-token context with 960K input and 64K output (15). Batch at half price covered Hy3 and Hy4 preview on 1 November; whether it covers hy4 wasn't re-read (3 of 10). OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs with a changed base URL, plus Tencent Cloud's SDK and CLI for the control plane (8 of 10). Errors with code, messages, upstream status and request ID (15 of 15). 18 + 13 + 14 + 15 + 3 + 8 + 15 = 86.\n- RouterPlus (71): Router, read on the model lines (tool use, structured output, caching, context, batch, SDKs, errors). Tools pass through on both surfaces, and Anthropic server tools such as web search work for Claude models on `/v1/messages`. Behaviour depends on the model (15 of 20). `response_format` works for GPT ids and the open models (re-read on 4 November 2026), and the docs tell callers to get JSON from Claude through a single tool, so structured output still rests on the provider (8 of 15, held). Cached-input and cache-write prices per model, a session id that keeps provider caches warm, and `cache_control` on the Anthropic surface (13 of 15). The catalogue's largest contexts are 1,050,000 tokens on GPT-6.1 Sol and 1,000,000 on Claude Sonnet 5.5, a judgement call since a router has no default model (15). No batch route (0 of 10). No SDK of its own. The OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs work with a changed base URL, and the docs give setups for ten coding tools (5 of 10). A stable `error_type` in every body and header, an origin header, the limit that refused a request, and `x-tm-dropped-params` naming every dropped field (15).\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: RouterPlus +15\n\n- Tencent Hy4 (45): Model reading for hy4 on Tencent Cloud TokenHub. Platform facts are the tencent-tokenhub listing's (checked 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. No machine payment protocol (0). The price page, updated 9 November, lists ¥6 input, ¥0.3 cached and ¥18 output per million tokens, with Hy4 billed at 50% until 31 December 2026 (20). TokenHub's campaign of 1M free tokens per language model, read on 1 November, isn't confirmed for hy4 on the price page, so half (10 of 20, a judgement call). A person signs up with real-name verification (0). 0 + 20 + 10 + 0 = 30. Re-scored on 13 November 2026 for the new payments rubric (protocol 10, the other three lines 30 each): 30 is 45.\n- RouterPlus (60): No machine payment protocol found in llms-full.txt. Calls draw on a prepaid balance (0). Per-token prices for every model are public in the docs catalogue and on the model pages with no login, re-read on 4 November 2026 (20). Signup adds no free credit, but inference through the caller's own provider keys carries no RouterPlus charge and needs no credit, the reading Cloudflare AI Gateway's dossier took for the same arrangement. We did not sign up to confirm that no card is asked for (20). A person signs up in the browser through Clerk with email verification, and the programmatic signup route was removed (0). Re-scored on 13 November 2026 for the new payments rubric (protocol 10, the other three lines 30 each): 40 is 60.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Tencent Hy4 +14\n\n- Tencent Hy4 (73): Model reading for hy4 on Tencent Cloud TokenHub. Platform facts are the tencent-tokenhub listing's (checked 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. No OpenAPI file for inference; field pages for the OpenAI and Anthropic formats as TokenHub implements them (12 of 25). llms.txt with Markdown copies (10). The model list, updated 9 November, gives hy4's context, input and output limits and marks thinking, structured output, function calling, caching and image understanding; computer use, which Tencent's release names, isn't marked (13 of 20). Typed field pages (10 of 15). Examples in five languages and an error page of 30 codes (14 of 15). Dated release notes, with hy4 added on 4 November (14 of 15). 12 + 10 + 13 + 10 + 14 + 14 = 73.\n- RouterPlus (59): Router, scored on the API lines. No OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract for the gateway was found. It follows the OpenAI and Anthropic wire formats, which this checklist doesn't credit to a reseller, the same reading as Antseed (0 of 25). llms.txt, llms-full.txt and a Markdown copy of every page (10). Each route page says what it is for, what isn't available, and which route to use for which model, and the agent integration guide lists what not to build on (18 of 20). Request fields follow the upstream formats, and the wire compatibility page tables which fields pass, translate, drop or fail with a typed 400 (12 of 15). Curl, Python and TypeScript examples on every page, and an error reference with a class, status and remedy for each error (15). Routes are versioned under /v1 and the wire compatibility page says changing it needs a recorded decision, but no changelog or dated release notes were found, re-read on 4 November 2026 (4 of 15).\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Tencent Hy4 +12\n\n- Tencent Hy4 (71): Model reading for hy4 on Tencent Cloud TokenHub. Platform facts are the tencent-tokenhub listing's (checked 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Bearer keys limited by model, service, IP range and token quota, long-lived with no rotation (26 of 30). The terms say inputs aren't used to train Tencent Cloud's own models, and Hy4 is first party, so no third party's terms apply (14 of 20). Retention only as long as the service needs, no periods (7 of 15). Per-call audit logs and optional full logs to the customer's CLS (14 of 15). No security.txt; Tencent's TSRC bounty covers Tencent Cloud; no certification checked (10 of 20). 26 + 14 + 7 + 14 + 10 = 71.\n- RouterPlus (59): Router, read on the model lines. `tm_vk_` keys are stored as SHA-256 hashes and revocable, each bound to a workspace and principal, with per-key RPM and monthly spend caps. Since 17 October 2026 the console also keeps an encrypted copy so an owner or admin can copy a key again, and an organisation can ask for copying to be turned off. Inference keys have no management rights. There are no permission scopes on a key and no SSO or SCIM (24 of 30). RouterPlus says it does not train on request logs and does not share them, and deletes them after 30 days. Most Claude and GPT routes are marked `prompt_logging: retained` with no ZDR, so retention and training upstream rest on each provider's API terms, while DeepInfra's open models, Perplexity, Cloudflare Workers AI, Fastino and RouterPlus's own models declare `none` (12 of 20, held). The data policy re-read on 4 November 2026 says requests and responses to non-dedicated endpoints are now logged by default for up to 30 days for debugging, with recognised keys removed. On 13 October it said content was kept only for hackathon accounts. Opting out takes a request to support, dedicated endpoints are excluded, and the `zdr` and `data_collection: deny` filters still remove every marketplace route, so they work only on the caller's own provider keys. Cloudflare AI Gateway, with default logging and a per-request header to switch it off, has 11 here (7 of 15, 10 before). `GET /v1/generation` lists every attempt behind a request with provider, tokens and cost, and the console has usage and logs (14 of 15). No security.txt (404 on both hosts on 4 November 2026), disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification found. The footer's Security link is an email to founders@evo-hq.com (2 of 20). 24 + 12 + 7 + 14 + 2 = 59.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Tencent Hy4 +11\n\n- Tencent Hy4 (52): Model reading for hy4 on Tencent Cloud TokenHub. Platform facts are the tencent-tokenhub listing's (checked 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Closed service under the TokenHub terms, but Tencent's release headline calls Hy4 open source while the weights and system card are only promised 'in the coming days', with no licence stated, and tencent/Hy4 didn't answer on Hugging Face on 11 November (14 of 30). Terms and FAQ agree inputs aren't used for training; the privacy policy renders only with JavaScript and wasn't read (15 of 30). Dated retirement notices and shutdown fields (13 of 20). Processing generally in mainland China for the China site, Singapore for the international one (13 of 20). Every benchmark in the release is Tencent's own or a partner's. 14 + 15 + 13 + 13 = 55.\n- RouterPlus (41): Closed service with no terms of service found. The only terms on the site govern the capacity request form, under EVO HQ Inc (0 of 30). The data policy page is detailed, lists what is stored and why, and gives a 30-day period for request logs and each provider's retention flag. Its 4 November 2026 text, which logs request content by default, no longer agrees with the homepage FAQ; that contradiction is charged once as a misleading claim under negative events, not on this line. There is no privacy policy, no DPA and no retention period for account data such as email addresses (14 of 30, held). Model retirement by `deprecation_date` is documented with no notice period, and no dated deprecation notices were found (4 of 20). The docs name Clerk, Resend and an AWS bucket, and say RouterPlus's own GPUs run in the United States. The form's terms name Supabase, Cloudflare and Resend. No complete subprocessor list or gateway hosting location was found (8 of 20).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Tencent Hy4 | RouterPlus | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 46 | 42 | Tencent Hy4 +4 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 59 | Tencent Hy4 +14 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 86 | 71 | Tencent Hy4 +15 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 71 | 59 | Tencent Hy4 +12 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 45 | 60 | RouterPlus +15 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 73 | 44 | Tencent Hy4 +29 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 52 | 41 | Tencent Hy4 +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **64 · B** | **52.8 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Tencent Hy4 | RouterPlus |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model router |\n| Vendor | Tencent (Hy team) | RouterPlus |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.routerplus.com/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Hosted model under the Tencent Cloud TokenHub terms. Tencent says weights and a system card will follow; no licence is stated yet | Closed service. No terms of service for the gateway were found on routerplus.com or app.routerplus.com on 13 October 2026. The only terms on the site govern the capacity request form and name EVO HQ Inc, a Delaware corporation (https://routerplus.com/capacity/terms/). |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-11-04 | none |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not read yet |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not read yet |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not read yet |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not read yet |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not read yet |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Tencent Hy4\n\n- +1.8 on 13 November 2026: checklist\n\n### RouterPlus\n\n- +2.5 on 13 November 2026: checklist\n- -1.1 on 4 November 2026: product, correction\n- +0.1 on 28 October 2026: checklist\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Tencent Hy4.** Tencent's flagship model is on TokenHub as hy4, with a 1M-token context, image understanding, function calling and caching, at ¥6 input and ¥18 output per million tokens, half price until the end of 2026. The weights it is called open source for aren't published yet, and every benchmark is Tencent's own.\n\n**RouterPlus.** The docs are written for agents, every model price is public, and each response carries its own cost. No terms of service, privacy policy, status page or changelog were found. Request content is now logged for 30 days by default while the homepage says prompts aren't stored, and signup adds no free credit.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Tencent Hy4\n\n1. Use model id hy4 on TokenHub's OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible endpoints; hy4-preview is a separate, older model\n2. Keep input under 960K tokens and expect at most 64K output\n3. Reuse prompt prefixes: cached input is ¥0.3 against ¥6\n4. Check the price page for the end of the 50% discount on 31 December 2026 before budgeting\n5. Read rate limits from the console or DescribeModelQuota; the public docs don't give them for chat models\n\n### RouterPlus\n\n1. Send `max_tokens` on every request. Without it the balance hold assumes up to 32,768 output tokens and can return `insufficient_quota` on a small balance\n2. Switch on `error_type`. Retry `rate_limit` after `retry-after`, and stop on `insufficient_quota`, which needs a person to add credit or raise a cap\n3. Don't add a retry loop on top of the SDK's. There is no idempotency key, so a retry that reaches a provider is billed again\n4. Keep secrets out of prompts. Request content is logged for up to 30 days unless the organisation has opted out through support\n5. Use `/v1/messages` for Claude when you need `thinking` or server tools. `response_format` works for GPT ids and open models, not Claude\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Tencent Hy4 or RouterPlus?\n\nTencent Hy4 scores 64 (B) on agent readiness against RouterPlus's 52.8 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. RouterPlus leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Tencent Hy4 and RouterPlus need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Tencent Hy4 and RouterPlus without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Tencent Hy4. RouterPlus has a hosted endpoint at https://api.routerplus.com/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy4-vs-routerplus.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy4-vs-routerplus.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"hy4\", \"b\": \"routerplus\"}`. 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