# Tencent Hy4 vs Together AI Inference (slim)

> Together AI Inference scores 69.1 (B) to Tencent Hy4's 64 (B) for llm inference. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Together AI Inference scores 69.1 (B) on agent readiness against Tencent Hy4's 64 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Tencent Hy4 leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do llm inference.

- Tencent Hy4: B 64, rank #595 of 1524 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hy4.min.md
- Together AI Inference: B 69.1, rank #346 of 1524 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/together-inference.min.md
- Tencent Hy4, good 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. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 45 against 30; Maintenance & community, 73 against 65. Also No incidents deducted, where Together AI Inference loses 3 points for them.
- Together AI Inference, good for Together AI Inference serves open models through an OpenAI-compatible API, with serverless requests, batch processing, dedicated model deployments and provisioned throughput. Ahead on Reliability, 75 against 46; Schema & documentation, 93 against 73; Transparency & trust, 74 against 52. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | Tencent Hy4 | Together AI Inference |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 46 | 75 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 73 | 93 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 86 | 85 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 71 | 70 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 45 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 73 | 65 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 52 | 74 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Tencent Hy4 | Together AI Inference |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Tencent (Hy team) | Together AI |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.together.ai/v1` |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Paid |
| Licence | Hosted model under the Tencent Cloud TokenHub terms. Tencent says weights and a system card will follow; no licence is stated yet | Proprietary hosted service. The official Python SDK is Apache-2.0; served models retain their own licences. |
| Last release | 2026-11-04 | 2026-10-23 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 10 stars |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (4) |

Why the edge:
- Reliability, Together AI Inference +29: Tencent Hy4 46 (Model reading for hy4 on Tencent Cloud TokenHub.); Together AI Inference 75 (Graded as listed, on the hosted API lines.)
- Transparency & trust, Together AI Inference +22: Tencent Hy4 52 (Model reading for hy4 on Tencent Cloud TokenHub.); Together AI Inference 74 (Proprietary service with published terms and Apache-2.0 SDK (15).)
- Schema & documentation, Together AI Inference +20: Tencent Hy4 73 (Model reading for hy4 on Tencent Cloud TokenHub.); Together AI Inference 93 (Public OpenAPI 3.1 (25), llms.txt and Markdown docs (10), endpoint and model-capability guidance (16 of 20), typed inputs and constraints (13 of 15), examples a…)
- Payments & pricing, Tencent Hy4 +15: Tencent Hy4 45 (Model reading for hy4 on Tencent Cloud TokenHub.); Together AI Inference 30 (No machine payment protocol found in the reviewed billing and inference docs (0).)
- Maintenance & community, Tencent Hy4 +8: Tencent Hy4 73 (Model reading for hy4 on Tencent Cloud TokenHub.); Together AI Inference 65 (Graded as listed, on the tool lines.)