Head-to-head comparison across 2benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Hy3 Preview
62
o1
57
Pick Hy3 Preview if you want the stronger benchmark profile. o1 only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority.
Knowledge
+29.0 difference
Inst. Following
+29.1 difference
Hy3 Preview
o1
$0 / $0
$15 / $60
N/A
98 t/s
N/A
32.29s
256K
200K
Pick Hy3 Preview if you want the stronger benchmark profile. o1 only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority.
Hy3 Preview is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 62 to 57. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
o1 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $15.00 input / $60.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Hy3 Preview. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Hy3 Preview gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 200K for o1.
Hy3 Preview is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 62 to 57. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 87.2% and 75.7%.
o1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.7 versus 46.7. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
o1 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 92.2 versus 63.1. Hy3 Preview stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
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