Monthly cost at list price for five common workloads. Token counts per unit are stated so you can scale them to your own traffic. A workload that does not fit a model's context window is marked rather than priced.
Workload (per month)
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Tencent: Hy4 preview
Difference
Customer-support chatbot
50,000 conversations — each a 6-turn conversation (1,500 in / 400 out tokens)
$89.10
$113
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 saves $23.47
RAG search over documents
20,000 questions — each a question answered from ~8 retrieved passages (6,000 in / 500 out tokens)
$99.00
$125
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 saves $26.09
Coding / tool-using agent
2,000 tasks — each a multi-step task with tool calls and file context (60,000 in / 6,000 out tokens)
$103
$130
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 saves $27.13
Batch summarisation
10,000 documents — each a 6,000-word report summarised to a page (8,000 in / 600 out tokens)
$64.68
$81.73
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 saves $17.05
Long-document analysis
500 documents — each a 150-page contract or codebase read in one pass (100,000 in / 2,000 out tokens)
$34.98
$44.20
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 saves $9.22
Capabilities side by side
Capability
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Tencent: Hy4 preview
What it lets you do
Tool / function calling
✓ Yes
✓ Yes
call your APIs and run agent loops
Structured output (JSON schema)
✓ Yes
✓ Yes
return JSON that validates against your schema
Reasoning / thinking mode
✓ Yes
✓ Yes
spend extra tokens thinking before answering hard problems
Image input
—
—
read screenshots, charts and scanned pages
Audio input
—
—
take speech or audio directly
File / PDF input
—
—
accept documents without your own parsing step
Image output
—
—
generate images, not just text
Built-in web search
—
—
answer from live web results
Seed (reproducible sampling)
✓ Yes
✓ Yes
repeat a generation for tests and evals
Log-probabilities
✓ Yes
—
read token confidence for classification and scoring
From each model's published parameters and input/output types. “—” means not advertised, not proven absent.
Price history
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: input price cut 50% ($1.32 → $0.66/1M), output price cut 50% ($3.96 → $1.98/1M) on 2026-10-17 (32 price changes since 2026-08-13).
Tencent: Hy4 preview: price unchanged since we started tracking it on 2026-08-29.
Date
Model
Input / 1M
Output / 1M
2026-10-17
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
$0.66
$1.98
2026-10-12
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
$1.32
$3.96
2026-10-10
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
$0.66
$1.98
2026-10-06
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
$1.32
$3.96
2026-10-05
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
$0.85
$5.00
2026-10-04
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
$0.22
$4.20
2026-10-03
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
$0.66
$1.98
2026-09-30
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
$1.32
$3.96
Which should you choose?
Choose DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 if…
cost matters at scale — it is 21% cheaper on a typical 3:1 input/output mix ($89.10 vs $113 a month for 50,000 support chats)
you need log-probabilities — to read token confidence for classification and scoring; Tencent: Hy4 preview does not advertise it
you generate long outputs in one go — up to 393K tokens (about 294,900 words) per response
Choose Tencent: Hy4 preview if…
No advantage on the data we track — pick it for provider preference or output quality on your own prompts.
Frequently asked questions
Is DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 better than Tencent: Hy4 preview?
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 comes out ahead on the data we track: 3 advantages and none for Tencent: Hy4 preview.
Which is cheaper, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 or Tencent: Hy4 preview?
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 is cheaper: $0.99 vs $1.25 per 1M tokens at a typical 3:1 input/output mix, 21% less. For 50,000 support conversations a month that is $89.10 against $113.
How much do DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Tencent: Hy4 preview cost per million tokens?
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 costs $0.66 per 1M input tokens and $1.98 per 1M output tokens; Tencent: Hy4 preview costs $0.83 input and $2.50 output. Output tokens are billed separately, so long answers shift the gap.
Which has the bigger context window, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 or Tencent: Hy4 preview?
Both take 1.0M tokens per request — roughly 1,573 pages of text.
Do DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Tencent: Hy4 preview support function calling and JSON output?
Can DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 or Tencent: Hy4 preview read images?
Neither accepts image input — both are text-in models.
Is DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 or Tencent: Hy4 preview free to use?
No free variant is listed for either; both are pay-per-token.
What is the maximum output length of DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Tencent: Hy4 preview?
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 can write up to 393K tokens (about 294,900 words) per response; Tencent: Hy4 preview up to 64K (about 48,000 words).
When were DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Tencent: Hy4 preview released?
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 was listed on 2026-08-12; Tencent: Hy4 preview on 2026-08-28.
Has the price of DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 or Tencent: Hy4 preview changed?
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: input price cut 50% ($1.32 → $0.66/1M), output price cut 50% ($3.96 → $1.98/1M) on 2026-10-17 (32 price changes since 2026-08-13). Tencent: Hy4 preview: price unchanged since we started tracking it on 2026-08-29.
Tencent: Hy4 preview is a mixture-of-experts model from Tencent, with 49B active parameters out of 770B total. It is designed for coding agents, complex tool-use workflows, and productivity tasks that...