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Tencent Hunyuan review

Updated September 28, 2026 · DeployCue Editorial Team · Facts checked September 26, 2026

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Our verdict

Tencent Hunyuan suits teams that want a single vendor for chat, vision, translation and embedding models. Rates sit mid-table rather than cheap: input price from CNY 0.50 to CNY 3 and output price from CNY 2 to CNY 9, across a fixed Hunyuan set rather than a marketplace.

Key facts

Best for
Hunyuan tokens, GPU rental, CDN and Kubernetes under a single bill.
Input price from
CN¥0.50 to CN¥3↗
Output price from
CN¥2 to CN¥9↗
Models offered
Hunyuan-a13b, Hunyuan-role-latest, Hunyuan-translation, Hunyuan-translation-lite, Tencent HY Vision 1.5 Instruct, Hunyuan-turbos-vision, Hunyuan-t1-vision, Hunyuan-turbos-vision-video, Hunyuan-embedding↗
Free credits
1,000,000 tokens free (Hunyuan-a13b, shared; Hunyuan-embedding 1,000,000 tokens), one-time grant valid 1 year↗
Compliance certifications
ISO 27001, SOC, CSA STAR, KISMS, MTCS↗
Legal entity
Shenzhen Tencent Computer Systems Company Limited↗
Headquarters
China↗
Founded
1998↗
Support channels
Email, Community↗
Official website
cloud.tencent.com

VPS

Entry price
$4.20↗
Entry plan
2 vCPUs, 2 GB RAM, 40 GB SSD↗
Bandwidth allowance
0.5 TB/month↗
Billing models
Monthly, Hourly↗
Locations
13↗
Regions
HK, SG, JP, US, CA, DE, IN↗
DDoS protection
Yes↗
SLA uptime
99.975% to 99.995%↗
Server types
VPS↗
Use cases
Game-server↗
Operating systems
Linux, Windows↗
Pricing model
Hourly billing

GPU cloud

GPU models
NVIDIA Tesla T4, NVIDIA Tesla V100 (NVLink 32GB), NVIDIA A100↗
GPU hour from
$0.204↗
Billing granularity
Per second↗
Egress fee
Free on the private network between instances in the same region; public network traffic is charged↗
Interconnect
Interconnection over a 100 GiB RDMA network within HPC clusters↗

Kubernetes

Control plane price
CN¥0.13↗
Free control plane
No↗
Maximum nodes
from 50,000↗

Serverless

Price per million requests
$0.20↗
Price per GB-second
$0.0000167↗
Free requests
1,000,000↗
Maximum run time
900↗

CDN

Price per GB
$0.045↗
Free tier
No↗
Points of presence
3,200↗

Facts checked September 26, 2026, 14 sources

Apps and profiles

Elsewhere
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Pros and cons

Pros

  • A time-limited credit covers shared Hunyuan-a13b tokens and Hunyuan-embedding tokens.
  • The Hunyuan a13b, Hunyuan role latest and Hunyuan translation catalog covers chat, translation, vision, video and embeddings.
  • GPU instances start at $0.20, bill per second and run on NVIDIA Tesla T4, NVIDIA Tesla V100 (NVLink 32GB) and NVIDIA A100.
  • Virtual servers start at $4.20 for 2 vCPUs, 2 GB RAM, 40 GB SSD with 0.5 TB/month included.

Cons

  • The catalog is closed: Hunyuan a13b, Hunyuan role latest and Hunyuan translation with no outside models listed.
  • The free control plane is no, so Kubernetes management costs CNY 0.13 before any node.
  • Support runs on email and community only.

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Who it suits

  • Teams building Chinese-language chat, translation or vision features that prefer a single supplier.
  • Buyers who want ISO 27001, SOC and CSA STAR certifications on the same account as their model API.
  • Shoppers who need virtual servers, CDN and GPU rental alongside the models, in Hong Kong, SG and JP.

Who should look elsewhere

  • Token buyers chasing the floor price: Salad starts at $0.06 on input.
  • Teams that want a deep frontier catalog, which Azure AI Foundry and Supascale AI carry beyond the fixed Hunyuan set.

How Tencent Hunyuan compares

Where Tencent Hunyuan is available

Available
China

Countries from the brand (Source, checked September 26, 2026)

Frequently asked questions

What do Hunyuan tokens cost at entry?+

Input price from CNY 0.50 to CNY 3 and output price from CNY 2 to CNY 9 set the entry rates. Hunyuan places at 39 of 71 on input price from, and 40 of 70 on output price from, so token cost is not the reason to choose it.

Which Hunyuan models can I call?+

The listed catalog is Hunyuan a13b, Hunyuan role latest and Hunyuan translation. Text chat, translation, vision, video and embedding models sit side by side, so a small team can cover several jobs without adding another model supplier or a second contract.

Is there a free allowance for testing the API?+

A time-limited credit covers shared Hunyuan-a13b tokens and Hunyuan-embedding tokens as a single allocation. The CDN product has no free tier, and virtual servers bill on monthly and hourly cycles rather than a free allowance. Kubernetes charges CNY 0.13 for the control plane.

Can I rent GPUs for training from the same vendor?+

GPU instances start at $0.20 and bill per second on NVIDIA Tesla T4, NVIDIA Tesla V100 (NVLink 32GB) and NVIDIA A100. Inside HPC clusters the instances interconnect over an RDMA network, and a private network hop between machines in the same region costs nothing, while public network traffic is billed.

Which regions does it cover?+

Lighthouse virtual servers list HK, SG and JP, and the platform shows 13 locations in total. The parent company sits in CN under Shenzhen Tencent Computer Systems Company Limited, and the certifications listed include ISO 27001, SOC and CSA STAR.

What does Kubernetes cost to run?+

Control plane management is CNY 0.13 and the free control plane is no, so management is billed from the outset. Clusters scale to from 50,000 nodes, and the CDN front end is $0.045 per GB across 3,200 points of presence.

How is support handled?+

Support runs on email and community, and availability on virtual servers is 99.975% to 99.995%. Serverless functions cap out at 900 per run, which suits short background jobs rather than long-lived work, and instances cover linux and windows.

Is egress free anywhere?+

A hop between two instances in one region stays on the private network at no charge, while anything crossing the public network is billed. The CDN product has no free tier, and CDN delivery runs $0.045 per GB across 3,200 points of presence.

Sources

Compiled from 14 source pages, checked September 26, 2026. We did not open an account.

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Tencent Hunyuan

Hunyuan tokens, GPU rental, CDN and Kubernetes under a single bill.

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