Head-to-head comparison across 2benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Hy3 Preview
58
Ornith-1.0-9B
52
Pick Hy3 Preview if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ornith-1.0-9B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you need the larger 262K context window.
Agentic
+11.3 difference
Coding
+9.4 difference
Hy3 Preview
Ornith-1.0-9B
$0 / $0
$0 / $0
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
256K
262K
Pick Hy3 Preview if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ornith-1.0-9B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you need the larger 262K context window.
Hy3 Preview is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 58 to 52. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Hy3 Preview's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 54.4 against 43.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 54.4% to 43.1%. Ornith-1.0-9B does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Ornith-1.0-9B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 256K for Hy3 Preview.
Hy3 Preview is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 58 to 52. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 54.4% and 43.1%.
Ornith-1.0-9B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 69.4 versus 60. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Hy3 Preview has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 54.4 versus 43.1. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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