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Tencent: Hy4 vs Elorian: Glimpse

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-04.

Tencent: Hy4 Elorian: Glimpse
Vendortencentelorian
Quality Score100100
Input Price$0.42/M$0.60/M
Output Price$1.25/M$3.00/M
Context Window1,048,576262,144
Max Output65,536256,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Hy4 costs $0.73 and Glimpse costs $1.35, so Hy4 is about 1.9 times cheaper for the same work.

Hy4 reads up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Glimpse.

Only Glimpse offers video input.

Across the 18 tasks where they differ, Hy4 scores higher on 18 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Hy4 was released in November 2026 and Glimpse in October 2026.

Pick Hy4 if you need lower cost, long documents or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Glimpse if you need video input.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.

Who wins by task?

TaskTencent: Hy4Elorian: Glimpse
SQL Generation 133 130
Code Review 132 126
Code Completion 131 128
Code Refactoring 136 127
Bug Fixing 136 130
Unit Test Generation 124 121
Code Documentation 131 125
Regex Writing 119 119
CI/CD Pipelines 120 117
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 128
ETL Scripting 128 122
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 128
OCR / Document Parsing 131 128
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 128
Long-Document Summarization 137 129
Short-Form Summarization 123 123
Blog Post Writing 121 118

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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