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New on the radar: Hy4 appeared in OpenRouter catalog
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Our hourly sweep found an id that was not there an hour ago.
Catalog id: tencent/hy4-preview Listed price: $0.83/$2.50 per 1M Context window: 1,048,576 tokens First observed by our sweep: 2026-08-28 06:52 UTC Source: OpenRouter catalog
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