Side-by-side comparison of Hy3-preview (Tencent) and Qwen3-8B (Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) · China) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Hy3-preview is rated blocked; Qwen3-8B is conditional. They part ways on licence: Hy3-preview is "Tencent Hy Community", Qwen3-8B 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. | Conditional Based on published licence terms, Qwen3-8B is released under standard Apache 2.0 with no field-of-use carve-outs, making self-hosted commercial deployment viable. Training-data disclosure is limited to a token count and Chinese origin creates EU AI Act Art. 53 transparency and data-transfer risks that deployers should document. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-28 | 2026-04-17 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Tencent Hy Community | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | EU territory excluded | Unrestricted |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Token count only |
| Origin | China | China (Hangzhou) |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 42/100 | 11/100 |
| Speed | 85 tok/s | 86 tok/s |
| Blended price | — | $0.31/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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No overlapping sources between the two entries.