Hy-MT2 1.8B

by Tencent · 1.8B parameters

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Today's price · per 1M tokens

Input

$0.044

per 1M tokens

Output

$0.177

per 1M tokens

Blended

$0.077

blended $/1M — 3:1 weighted input:output

How this price is scoped: Tencent's own price, quoted by the FP8 endpoint Tencent operates for this model. Tencent's RMB rate card carries the matching row — Hy-MT2-Lite at ¥0.3 in / ¥1.2 out per 1M tokens, the only row on that card that converts to these figures — at 6.78 CNY/USD. Re-read against the card 2026-08-28, unchanged. Tencent publishes no cached-input rate for this family.

Source: official Tencent pricing · read Aug 20, 2026 MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-10-04

Price receipt

We read Tencent's own pricing page on Aug 28, 2026 and found Hy-MT2-Lite listed with a price on the same row — that read is where the number above comes from. The page prices it in CNY; the USD above is converted from that list at a dated FX rate — see the price note for the figures. We keep the page text we read; its content hash is 21c43c26b5.

Overview

Tencent Hy-MT2 1.8B — the compact member of Tencent's Hy-MT2 "fast-thinking" translation family, translating among 33 languages and five Chinese dialect and minority-language pairs with the same structured, contextual and glossary-based workflows as its larger siblings. Tencent open-sourced the weights on 2026-05-21, alongside a 1.25-bit quantisation that fits the model into about 440 MB for on-device use. Tencent sells it per token on its Tencent Cloud TokenHub rate card and serves it itself as an FP8 endpoint. Context window 8,192 tokens with a 4,096-token maximum output, per Tencent's own model list.

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