Grok 4.7 Xhigh vs Tencent Hy4: latency, speed and cost

Grok 4.7 Xhigh leads the intelligence index 35.5 to 34.6. Tencent Hy4 costs 58% less on blended price. Price per token, response speed and when to pick each.

Metric	Grok 4.7 (Xhigh)	Tencent Hy4
Intelligence Index	35.5	34.6
Input price (per 1M tokens)	$2.00	$0.834
Output price (per 1M tokens)	$6.00	$2.501
Output speed (tokens/s)	65	94
Time to first token	43s	2.4s
Release date	2026-09-21	2026-11-03

Metric

Grok 4.7 (Xhigh)

Tencent Hy4

Intelligence Index

35.5

34.6

Input price (per 1M tokens)

$2.00

$0.834

Output price (per 1M tokens)

$6.00

$2.501

Output speed (tokens/s)

Time to first token

43s

2.4s

Release date

2026-09-21

2026-11-03

On the headline score, SpaceXAI's Grok 4.7 (Xhigh) and Tencent's Tencent Hy4 are almost level. All numbers are the catalogue's recorded values; nobody ran either model by hand for this page. What separates them most is responsiveness; Grok 4.7 Xhigh takes 43 seconds to produce its first token, Tencent Hy4 2.4 seconds.

Waiting time

Once a response is under way, Grok 4.7 Xhigh produces roughly 65 tokens per second against 94 tokens per second for Tencent Hy4. On long outputs, that is a real advantage for Tencent Hy4. Time to first token is 43 seconds for Grok 4.7 Xhigh and 2.4 seconds for Tencent Hy4. Tencent Hy4 gets to its first token 18 times as fast. Waits that long are felt on every chat-style request, though they matter less for batch jobs.

Put together, an 800-token answer would take about 55 seconds from Grok 4.7 Xhigh and 11 seconds from Tencent Hy4, counting the first-token wait.

Cost: Tencent Hy4 is cheaper

Grok 4.7 Xhigh lists $2.00 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens; Tencent Hy4 lists $0.834 and $2.501. That makes Tencent Hy4's output 58% cheaper.

Take 1 million input tokens and 200,000 output tokens: that comes to $3.20 on Grok 4.7 Xhigh and $1.33 on Tencent Hy4. For a support assistant answering 10,000 conversations of 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each, Tencent Hy4 would come in 58% lower: $70.00 for Grok 4.7 Xhigh against $29.18 for Tencent Hy4. On a 3:1 blend of input to output tokens, that works out to $3.00 versus $1.251 per million.

Benchmark scores

Grok 4.7 Xhigh records 35.5 on the intelligence index and Tencent Hy4 records 34.6. That is close enough to call a draw on this measure.

Among 109 active scored models, Grok 4.7 Xhigh sits 38th and Tencent Hy4 42nd.

The catalogue does not yet split either model's score into coding and math indexes.

Is the price in proportion?

Dividing the blended price by the intelligence index gives a rough cost per point: $0.085 for Grok 4.7 Xhigh and $0.036 for Tencent Hy4, per million tokens. Grok 4.7 Xhigh costs 2.3 times as much per point, which is the price of its lead.

Which is newer

The release dates are September 21, 2026 for Grok 4.7 Xhigh and November 3, 2026 for Tencent Hy4, 43 days apart. That is close enough to count them as the same generation.

Common questions about Grok 4.7 Xhigh and Tencent Hy4

Is Grok 4.7 Xhigh better than Tencent Hy4?

It depends on what you need: Grok 4.7 Xhigh scores higher on the intelligence index, 35.5 to 34.6; Tencent Hy4 is 58% cheaper on blended price; and Tencent Hy4 streams output 1.4 times as fast.

Who makes Grok 4.7 Xhigh and Tencent Hy4?

Grok 4.7 Xhigh is made by SpaceXAI and Tencent Hy4 by Tencent. Grok 4.7 Xhigh was released on September 21, 2026 and Tencent Hy4 on November 3, 2026.

Where do these numbers come from?

The figures are the recorded benchmark, price and speed data in Franklin AI's model catalogue. This page is written from that data automatically; neither model was tested by hand for it.

Which is newer, Grok 4.7 Xhigh or Tencent Hy4?

Tencent Hy4 is newer. It was released on November 3, 2026, 43 days after Grok 4.7 Xhigh (September 21, 2026).

Does Grok 4.7 Xhigh respond faster than Tencent Hy4?

Tencent Hy4 generates output faster, at 94 tokens per second against 65 tokens per second. Tencent Hy4 reaches its first token sooner (2.4 seconds against 43 seconds).

Final whistle

Bottom line: Tencent Hy4 comes out ahead on every recorded measure where they differ, so it is the easier choice unless something outside this data matters to you. Pick Tencent Hy4 if users are waiting on the first word and cost matters ($2.501 against $6.00 per million output tokens). Pick Grok 4.7 Xhigh only if your own tests show an advantage the recorded data does not.

Where the numbers come from

The scores, speed and prices in this comparison come from independent third-party model evaluations that Franklin AI syncs each day, and the article was written from a snapshot of them. For the latest results, open the Grok 4.7 (Xhigh) and Tencent Hy4 pages. The AI Benchmark methodology explains how that data is collected and shown.