Verdict
Built from the measurements below
- Accuracy is too close to call: Hy3 scored 58.8% and Llama 4 Maverick 59.0% on the same 80 questions, a gap within what chance alone could produce.
- Llama 4 Maverick is 2.1× cheaper per question as billed ($0.00059 vs $0.0012), reasoning tokens included.
- Hy3 generates text 7.2× faster: 96 tokens per second against 13.
- Llama 4 Maverick starts answering sooner: 0.7 s to the first token, against 1.7 s for Hy3.
- Llama 4 Maverick accepts more context: 524k tokens against 262k.
Which should you choose?
Choose Hy3 for faster streaming and more hosts to choose from on OpenRouter (5 against 3). Choose Llama 4 Maverick for the lower cost per correct answer ($0.001 against $0.0021), a quicker first token, shorter outputs (about 784 tokens per question against 2,355) and a 524k-token context window.
Accuracy gap -0.2 points (z = -0.03). We call a winner only when z is at least 1.96, the usual 95% threshold. Speed, latency and price need a 10% margin.