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Hunyuan-A13B

An open-weight mixture-of-experts model with roughly 13B active parameters, giving self-hosters strong quality at modest inference cost.

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At a glance

Released
Apr 2, 2026
Provider
Tencent
Context window
256,000 tokens
Max output
16,000 tokens
Modalities
Text → text
Knowledge cutoff
December 2025
API model ID
hunyuan-a13b
License
Open weights (Tencent Hunyuan Community License)

Pricing

Standard
Input$0.07 / 1M
Output$0.28 / 1M

* Rates are from a third-party aggregator — verify before relying on them. A typical 1,500-token prompt with a 650-token answer costs ≈ $0.0003 on the standard tier. Run your own prompt through the calculator →

Best use cases

Self-hosted deployment

Runs on-prem for teams that want Hunyuan quality without the API.

Efficient serving

Activates only a fraction of parameters per token to cut costs.

Fine-tuning

Provides an open base for domain adaptation and research.

Strengths & limitations

Strengths

  • Open weights
  • Efficient MoE serving
  • Good general quality

Limitations

  • License has usage restrictions
  • Text only

How to test it

  1. No-code: open hunyuan.tencent.com and pick Hunyuan-A13B from the model switcher — no API key needed.
  2. Playground: sign in to Tencent Cloud (the Hunyuan API) and run prompts in the workbench, then copy the generated code.
  3. API: create a key in Tencent Cloud (the Hunyuan API) and call the API (example below).
curl https://api.hunyuan.cloud.tencent.com/v1/chat/completions \
  # OpenAI-compatible endpoint
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "hunyuan-a13b",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Explain tokenization in one paragraph."}]
  }'

Where to get access

Consumer app

Chat with Hunyuan-A13B in Tencent Yuanbao / Hunyuan web.

hunyuan.tencent.com ↗

Direct API

Pay-as-you-go access via Tencent Cloud (the Hunyuan API).

Tencent Cloud (the Hunyuan API) ↗

Also available

Open weights for several Hunyuan models.

hunyuan.tencent.com ↗

Developer docs

API reference, SDKs and quickstarts for Tencent.

cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1729 ↗