Cohere Command A vs Hunyuan 3 (Tencent Hy3)

Which one should you pick? Here's the full breakdown.

Cohere Command A

B
7.5/10

Cohere's enterprise-multilingual flagship -- 111B params, 256K context, runs on 2x H100. 23 languages. CC-BY-NC 4.0 on weights (research / non-commercial), commercial requires Cohere enterprise contract. Follow-ups: Command A Reasoning + Command A Vision

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Hunyuan 3 (Tencent Hy3)

A
8.1/10

Tencent's Hy3 Preview launched 2026-04-23 -- 295B total / 21B active MoE, 256K context, open-sourced on HuggingFace under tencent/Hy3-preview. Cheapest frontier-class API at ~1.2 RMB per million input tokens. Integrated into Yuanbao, WeChat, QQ

CategoryCohere Command AHunyuan 3 (Tencent Hy3)
Ease of Use6.57.0
Output Quality8.58.0
Value7.09.5
Features8.08.0
Overall7.58.1

Pricing Comparison

FeatureCohere Command AHunyuan 3 (Tencent Hy3)
Free TierYesYes
Starting Price$0$0

Which Should You Pick?

Pick Cohere Command A if...

Mid-size to large enterprises needing a multilingual open-weight model with low-ish infrastructure requirements (2x H100 for full model). Especially good for retrieval-augmented generation over internal document stores, multi-language customer support, and workflows touching Asian / Middle Eastern / African languages where Command A's coverage materially beats Llama or Mistral. Also a strong pick for teams already in Cohere's enterprise ecosystem.

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Pick Hunyuan 3 (Tencent Hy3) if...

  • ✓Better value for money (9.5/10)

Chinese-market builders, multilingual products that need strong CN performance, and cost-sensitive developers who want frontier-class quality at sub-DeepSeek pricing. Also anyone watching the open-weights field who wants Tencent's distribution-backed entry on the bench.

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Our Verdict

Hunyuan 3 (Tencent Hy3) edges out Cohere Command A with a 8.1 vs 7.5 overall score. Both are solid picks, but Hunyuan 3 (Tencent Hy3) has the advantage in value.