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Hunyuan Lite API Pricing

Hunyuan Lite is Tencent Cloud's free entry-point for low-risk Hunyuan testing and SEO-relevant free-model comparisons. The official pricing page lists Y0/M input and Y0/M output, while Tencent's access docs note a shared 1M token free quota for new API users. Pulled directly from cloud.tencent.com daily.

Input - per 1M tokens
$0.00/M
Source Tencent Cloud free
Output - per 1M tokens
$0.00/M
Vendor row free free
Cached input - free
$0.00/M
No charge on public row free
Effective - agentic blend
$0.00/M
92/8 split - zero token price
§ 01 / TERMINAL

Run the numbers.

Live calculator pre-loaded with Hunyuan Lite's zero-dollar public row. Use it to compare Tencent's free entry tier against paid Chinese and US model options without inventing hidden token charges.

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§ 02 / SCENARIOS

Real-world presets.

TRIAL

API experiment

$0.000/run
8k in - 2k outNo token charge
SEO

Free-tier comparison

$0.000/turn
4k in - 1k outNo token charge
CLASSIFY

Label routing

$0.000/item
1k in - 200 outNo token charge
CHATBOT

Prototype assistant

$0.000/turn
3k in - 800 outNo token charge
§ 03 / TAPE

Price history.

Tencent's public Hunyuan table still shows free input and free output for Hunyuan Lite.

Input · $0.00/M
Output · $0.00/M
Cached · $0.00/M
OCT 30 Lite entered Tencent's public Hunyuan lineup as a free entry tierMAY 23 Verified on Tencent Cloud pricing page as free input and free output with shared trial-token positioning
§ 04 / TOKENIZER

Paste text. See tokens. See cost.

Estimate · tencent-tokenizer-estimate · ≈3.85 chars/token Auto-counts as you type

This is a chars-per-token approximation, not a real tokenizer. Actual tokens vary by language, code density, and tool-call overhead — counts are typically ±10–20% off for English prose, more for code or non-Latin scripts. For exact billing, use the vendor's official tokenizer.

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§ 05 / SHELF

Up against the shelf.

All models →
Model Input /M Output /M Effective blended Context Best for
Hunyuan Lite Current $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 agentic 92/8 documented elsewhere Free Tencent testing
GLM-4.7 Flash $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 another free Chinese option 200K Free GLM experimentation
Hunyuan TurboS $0.11 $0.28 $0.13 paid step-up 131K Tencent paid baseline
Hunyuan A13B $0.07 $0.28 $0.09 paid step-up 131K Low-cost Tencent traffic
DeepSeek V4 Flash $0.14 cache $0.00 $0.28 $0.05 cheap paid alternative 1M Cheap reasoning and coding
Yi Lightning $0.14 $0.14 $0.14 cheap paid Chinese peer 16K Router-style low-cost traffic

Frequently asked.

Practical Hunyuan Lite pricing questions, with the official free row separated from usage-limit assumptions.

Q · 01 Is Hunyuan Lite really free? +
Yes on the current public pricing row. Tencent Cloud's Hunyuan pricing page lists Y0/M input and Y0/M output for Hunyuan Lite, so AI//COST stores the token price as $0/M.
Q · 02 What is the catch with the free tier? +
Tencent's model-access docs describe a shared 1M token free quota for new API users and position Lite as the entry tier. Free token pricing does not mean unlimited throughput, so production usage should still expect rate and access controls.
Q · 03 How does Hunyuan Lite compare with paid TurboS? +
Hunyuan TurboS moves to $0.113/M input and $0.282/M output but is the cleaner paid baseline for steadier workloads. Lite is better for testing, demos, and free-tier comparisons.
Q · 04 Is Lite the only free Chinese API model here? +
No. Other vendors also expose free public rows at times, such as GLM-4.7 Flash. The shelf keeps those visible so you can compare free options without guessing from marketing pages.
Q · 05 Has Tencent changed Lite pricing recently? +
Not on the current public page. This run re-verified the same zero-cost row on 2026-05-23.
Q · 06 Does this page include tax or private discounts? +
No. AI//COST stores Tencent's public list row as published. Because Lite is already free on the public page, there is no separate discount math to apply here.
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Reviewed by Yaroslav Vikhariev Founder - AI//COST - Pricing pulled daily from cloud.tencent.com - Last verified May 23, 2026
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