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Dev · minimaxir.com · Saturday, 30 May 2026

Hy3 LLM Surpasses Claude on OpenRouter Rankings, Prompting Questions

The blog uncovers that the little‑known Hy3 preview model has jumped to the top of OpenRouter’s usage‑based LLM rankings, outpacing premium models like Claude Opus 4.7 despite modest benchmark scores. The surge appears driven by its low $0.066 per‑million‑token price and organic user adoption, not by superior performance.

Read the source: minimaxir.com ↗In the 30 May issue →