Side-by-side comparison of Hy3-preview (Tencent) and Mistral Small 4 (Mistral AI · France) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Hy3-preview is rated blocked; Mistral Small 4 is EU-ready. They part ways on licence: Hy3-preview is "Tencent Hy Community", Mistral Small 4 is "Apache 2.0".
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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. | EU-ready Unified model folding Instruct, reasoning (Magistral) and code (Devstral) into a single 119B MoE under Apache 2.0. 6.5B active params, 256K context, 24 languages, toggleable reasoning effort. Strongest permissive EU option at this scale. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-28 | 2026-04-15 |
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| Licence | Tencent Hy Community | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | EU territory excluded | Yes |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | China | EU |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 42/100 | 19/100 |
| Speed | 85 tok/s | 147 tok/s |
| Blended price | — | $0.26/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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