Side-by-side comparison of Hy3-preview (Tencent) and Qwen3.6-27B (Alibaba (Qwen)) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Hy3-preview is rated blocked; Qwen3.6-27B is conditional. They part ways on licence: Hy3-preview is "Tencent Hy Community", Qwen3.6-27B 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 Per the published Apache 2.0 licence, the Qwen3.6-27B weights are deployable without commercial restriction, including for vision-language and 1M-context workloads. The blockers for regulated EU use are the China-based vendor and the absence of any training-data disclosure on the model card — both should be mitigated through self-hosting and a deployer-prepared GPAI compliance file. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-28 | 2026-04-28 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Tencent Hy Community | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | EU territory excluded | Unrestricted |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | China | China |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 42/100 | 46/100 |
| Speed | 85 tok/s | 66 tok/s |
| Blended price | — | $1.35/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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No overlapping sources between the two entries.