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Tencent HY Vision 1.5 Instruct API Pricing

Tencent HY Vision 1.5 Instruct is Tencent Cloud's older public image-understanding row, still sold at the same list rate as the newer TurboS and T1 vision variants. The official pricing page lists Y3.00/M input and Y9.00/M output, stored here as $0.423/M and $1.268/M at Y7.1/USD. Pulled directly from cloud.tencent.com daily.

Input - per 1M tokens
$0.42/M
Original Y3.00/M CNY source
Output - per 1M tokens
$1.27/M
Original Y9.00/M CNY source
Cached input
$0.42/M
No cache listed publicly N/A
Effective - agentic blend
$0.49/M
92/8 split - no cache discount
§ 01 / TERMINAL

Run the numbers.

Live calculator pre-loaded with Tencent HY Vision 1.5 Instruct's public rate. It is useful as the legacy benchmark now that Tencent's newer vision siblings still share the same price row.

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§ 02 / SCENARIOS

Real-world presets.

OCR

Invoice parsing

$0.005/doc
8k in - 1.2k out~20,385 docs/$100
PHOTO Q&A

Field image answers

$0.004/turn
6k in - 1k out~26,274 turns/$100
RETAIL

Shelf-photo tagging

$0.007/set
12k in - 1.5k out~14,331 sets/$100
SUPPORT

User screenshot triage

$0.002/case
3k in - 400 out~56,275 cases/$100
§ 03 / TAPE

Price history.

Tencent's public Vision 1.5 Instruct row still shows Y3.00/M input and Y9.00/M output.

Input · $0.42/M
Output · $1.3/M
Cached · $0.42/M
DEC 17 Vision 1.5 Instruct listed as the older image-understanding row on Tencent's overview pageMAY 23 Verified unchanged on Tencent Cloud at Y3.00/M input and Y9.00/M output
§ 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
Tencent HY Vision 1.5 Instruct Current $0.42 $1.27 $0.49 agentic 92/8 24K Legacy Tencent image understanding
Hunyuan TurboS Vision $0.42 $1.27 $0.49 same price newer sibling 32K Current Tencent vision flagship
Hunyuan T1 Vision $0.42 $1.27 $0.49 same price reasoning sibling 28K Visual reasoning and charts
Hunyuan TurboS Vision Video $0.42 $1.27 $0.49 same price with video input 24K Video description and QA
Hunyuan TurboS $0.11 $0.28 $0.13 text-only cheaper sibling documented elsewhere Fast Tencent chat
DeepSeek V4 Flash $0.14 cache $0.00 $0.28 $0.05 cross-vendor budget benchmark 1M Cheap reasoning and coding

Frequently asked.

Practical Tencent HY Vision 1.5 Instruct pricing questions, with Tencent's public CNY row separated from calculator assumptions.

Q · 01 What is Tencent HY Vision 1.5 Instruct priced at today? +
Tencent Cloud's official Hunyuan pricing page lists Y3.00/M input and Y9.00/M output for Tencent HY Vision 1.5 Instruct. AI//COST stores that as $0.423/M and $1.268/M using the queue's Y7.1/USD conversion rate.
Q · 02 Does Tencent publish a cache-hit discount for Vision 1.5 Instruct? +
No. The public row does not show a separate prompt-cache or cache-hit rate. This page therefore treats cached input the same as standard input instead of inventing a discount.
Q · 03 Why would anyone choose this older row over TurboS Vision or T1 Vision? +
Usually for compatibility rather than price. Tencent's current public pricing page charges the exact same $0.423/M input and $1.268/M output for the newer TurboS Vision and T1 Vision siblings, so new deployments normally choose those newer rows instead.
Q · 04 What context limit does Tencent document publicly? +
Tencent's current product overview lists Tencent HY Vision 1.5 Instruct with 24K maximum input and 16K maximum output. The pricing row itself only lists token prices, so this page pairs the billing row with the current public context limit.
Q · 05 Is there any free quota before the paid rate starts? +
Yes. Tencent's pricing page says the multimodal models share a 1M token free package when you first activate the service. The rates on this page are the standard paid list prices after that shared quota is used.
Q · 06 Does this page include tax or enterprise discounts? +
No. AI//COST stores Tencent's public pre-tax list price and converts it to USD for cross-vendor comparison. Contract rebates, private discounts, and region-specific billing are outside this page.
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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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