Side-by-side comparison of Hy3-preview (Tencent) and Kimi-K2.6 (Moonshot AI · China) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Hy3-preview is rated blocked; Kimi-K2.6 is conditional. They part ways on licence: Hy3-preview is "Tencent Hy Community", Kimi-K2.6 is "Modified MIT".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | 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. | Conditional Per the published LICENSE file, Kimi-K2.6 ships under a Modified MIT licence: identical to standard MIT for almost all deployers, with an additional UI-attribution requirement only for products exceeding 100M monthly active users or USD 20M monthly revenue. The genuine EU-readiness concerns are the China-based vendor and the absence of any training-data disclosure rather than the licence itself. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-28 | 2026-04-28 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Tencent Hy Community | Modified MIT |
| Commercial use | EU territory excluded | Attribution at scale |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | China | China |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 42/100 | 54/100 |
| Speed | 85 tok/s | — |
| Blended price | — | $1.71/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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No overlapping sources between the two entries.