Best coding model — Under $1 / M: tencent/hy3 overtook stepfun/step-3.7-flash
model id stepfun/step-3.7-flashmodel id tencent/hy3
Leader change
The top-ranked model for Best coding model — Under $1 / M changed from stepfun/step-3.7-flash to tencent/hy3, measured on token volume through OpenRouter.
Occurred
6 August 2026
The day the change took effect, where the vendor said so.Observed
6 August 2026
The night this site read it and saw a difference.Severity
Medium
How much it changes what the tool costs or what you get free.Confidence
High
From an API — a repository status or an ownership record.What changed
- Was, and is now
model id stepfun/step-3.7-flashmodel id tencent/hy3
- What it means
- The top-ranked model for Best coding model — Under $1 / M changed from stepfun/step-3.7-flash to tencent/hy3, measured on token volume through OpenRouter.
- Evidence
- See the evidence
- How this was found
- Derived from an API — a repository status or an ownership record, not a reading of a marketing page. Source: auto.
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| Best coding model — Above $5 / M: anthropic/claude-opus-5 overtook moonshotai/kimi-k3The board | Leader change | model id moonshotai/kimi-k3model id anthropic/claude-opus-5 | high | |
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| Best coding model — Above $5 / M: moonshotai/kimi-k3 overtook anthropic/claude-opus-4.8The board | Leader change | model id anthropic/claude-opus-4.8model id moonshotai/kimi-k3 | high | |
| Best coding model — Under $1 / M: deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 overtook tencent/hy3The board | Leader change | model id tencent/hy3model id deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 | high | |
| Best coding model — Under $1 / M: tencent/hy3 overtook z-ai/glm-5.2The board | Leader change | model id z-ai/glm-5.2model id tencent/hy3 | high |
