Side-by-side comparison of Codestral 22B (Mistral AI · France) and Hy3-preview (Tencent) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Codestral 22B is rated conditional; Hy3-preview is blocked. They part ways on licence: Codestral 22B is "MNPL (non-prod)", Hy3-preview is "Tencent Hy Community".
| Field | ||
|---|---|---|
| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional EU code model trained on 80+ languages. Licensed under Mistral Non-Production License — blocked for any production or commercial deployment without a paid commercial licence. Use Codestral Mamba (Apache 2.0) if you need commercial freedom. | Blocked Per the Tencent Hy Community License Agreement (Sections 1(l) and 5(c)), the licence's defined Territory excludes the European Union, the United Kingdom and South Korea, and licensees are expressly prohibited from using, distributing or displaying the model or its outputs outside that Territory. Under those terms the weights are not deployable for EU users or workloads, regardless of architecture quality. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-04-28 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | MNPL (non-prod) | Tencent Hy Community |
| Commercial use | Paid licence req. | EU territory excluded |
| Training data | Partial | Undisclosed |
| Origin | EU | China |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | — | 42/100 |
| Speed | — | 85 tok/s |
| Blended price | — | — |
| Context window | — | — |
| Evidence | ||
| Sources | ||
No overlapping sources between the two entries.