# Hy-MT2 1.8B

> Hy-MT2 1.8B is the smallest model in Tencent's Hy-MT2 translation family. It translates among 33 languages and follows translation instructions, at low cost and with a short 8,192-token window. The larger Hy-MT2 30B A3B is also in the catalog.

**ID**: `tencent/hy-mt2-1.8b`  
**Creator**: tencent  
**Category**: text  
**Context**: 8K tokens  
**Pricing**: $0.04 / $0.18 per 1M · billed by your provider (BYOK)  
**Released**: 2026-05-21  
**Web page**: https://anyrouter.dev/model/tencent/hy-mt2-1.8b

**Input modalities**: text  
**Output modalities**: text  

**Capabilities**: chat, streaming, translation

## Usage

**Endpoint**: `POST https://anyrouter.dev/api/v1/chat/completions`

```bash
curl https://anyrouter.dev/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ANYROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "model": "tencent/hy-mt2-1.8b",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Say hi in 3 words."
    }
  ]
}'
```

## Providers

| Provider | Input | Output |
| --- | --- | --- |
| openrouter-byok | $0.04/M (list) | $0.18/M (list) |
| aimlapi-byok | $0.05/M (list) | $0.19/M (list) |

BYOK routes are billed by your own provider key — AnyRouter charges $0. Rates marked (list) are the provider's published list price.

## Model card

- License: Apache-2.0, open weights (https://huggingface.co/tencent/Hy-MT2-1.8B) [1]

### Strengths [1]

- Translates among 33 languages and follows translation instructions in multiple languages (vendor-stated).
- Vendor reports the 1.8B model beats mainstream commercial translation APIs overall.

### Use cases [1]

- Machine translation
- On-device and low-cost translation

### Links

- model card: https://huggingface.co/tencent/Hy-MT2-1.8B
- paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.22064

### Sources

1. [Hy-MT2-1.8B model card](https://huggingface.co/tencent/Hy-MT2-1.8B) (accessed 2026-11-02)

## Source

- Upstream docs: https://huggingface.co/tencent/Hy-MT2-1.8B