Hy-MT2-1.8B
Tencent · released May 11, 2026 · tencent/Hy-MT2-1.8B
- Type
- Open weightsApache License 2.0
- Params
- 2B
- Context
- 8K
active per word not recorded by us · about 6K words of context
Our take
Written Aug 20, 2026Hy-MT2-1.8B is a tiny downloadable text model from Tencent with 1.8 billion parameters and an 8,192-token request limit. It is a minimal-cost option for text tasks where no measured quality bar exists yet.
Pick this for minimal-cost text tasks where any measured quality bar is acceptable, or when Tencent-hosted deployment at 70.5 tokens per second meets your latency needs. Skip it if you need verified quality scores, long-context work, or a disclosed licence.
The case for it
- Identical pricing across both tracked providers eliminates cost arbitrage.
- Small enough to self-host or run through either provider at the same rate.
The case against it
- No benchmark scores in our data — chat, reasoning, coding and all other task performance are unverified.
- 8,192-token request limit is short for a 2026 release.
- Throughput on OpenRouter is undisclosed; only Tencent's 70.5 tokens per second is known.
How good is it?
We hold no score for this model.
So there is no figure here for everyday use, coding, agent work or writing. That is a gap in our data, not a low score.
Can you run it yourself?
Comfortable fit
GeForce RTX 4090 · 24 GB
Room to spare. 20.2 GB spare means a 10% error in the size would not change the answer.
GeForce RTX 5090 · 32 GB
Room to spare. 28.2 GB spare means a 10% error in the size would not change the answer.
Apple M2 (8-core GPU, 8GB unified) · 8 GB
Room to spare. 3.4 GB spare means a 10% error in the size would not change the answer.
Memory use by level
Against a 24 GB card.
What is quantisation? →This model on every device we track71 devicesThe Q4 build most people download, on each device: what the weights come to, how much context the memory leaves, and whether it runs. Smallest device that runs it first.
Check against your own machine → · Where to rent it hosted →
Or rent it from someone else
Prices checked 4 hours ago — each listing carries its own date.
- per 1M tokens
- $0.044 in / $0.18 out
- Context served
- 8K
- Throughput
- Not measured
| Provider | In / out per 1M tokens | Context | Throughput | Trains on prompts | Logs prompts | Zero retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | $0.044 / $0.18checked 4 hours ago | 8K | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Tencentfp8Through OpenRouter | $0.044 / $0.18checked 4 hours ago | 8K4K max reply | 30 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
Across the 2 listings we hold: 1 says it does not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 1 does not say. 1 appears in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Tencentfp8Through OpenRouter | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Tool calling: 0 of 2 listings say yes, 2 say no. JSON output: 0 of 2 listings say yes, 2 say no. Strict schema: 0 of 2 listings say yes, 2 say no.
Models people weigh against Hy-MT2-1.8B
When we formed this view
Recent changes
What moved
first indexed by our pipelineEach date is the day we first saw the change, or the day the maker announced it.
What we do not know about this model yet
- We hold no measured file for it, so all 3 sizes on this page are calculated from the parameter count.
- No independent board has scored it, so we hold no quality figures at all.
- We do not hold the active parameter count for it, so how much of it runs on any one token is unknown to us.
- Nothing we hold says whether an endpoint streams, so we do not show it either way.
- 1 of 2 listings does not say whether it trains on prompts.
- We hold no cached-input rate for any of its listings.
- We hold no batch or off-peak rate for any of its listings.
- We hold a decode speed for it, but no prompt-processing (prefill) figure, so how long the input side of a job takes is unknown to us.
Licence and identifiers
What the licence allowsApache License 2.0, what it allows commercially, and the identifiers you need to pull this model — its Hugging Face repo, our slug and a machine-readable card.
Licence
Apache License 2.0
Fully permissive: commercial use, redistribution, and derivatives allowed. Requires attribution and a copy of the license. Includes an express patent grant.
Identifiers
- Hugging Face
- tencent/Hy-MT2-1.8B
- Architecture
- Mixture of experts
- Takes in, gives back
- Text in, text out
- Catalogue slug
- tencent-hy-mt2-1-8b