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🇨🇳 China 3d-generationReleased June 2025

Hunyuan3D 2.1

Tencent
Open-sourceSelf-hostEU hosting Card data 44/100 Trust Index 79
Verdict

A solid pick for self-hosting and full data control.

Overview

Hunyuan3D 2.1 turns images or text prompts into 3D meshes and textures, and does so with just 3 billion parameters — light enough to run on a laptop-class GPU. Weights are open and Tencent's community licence permits commercial use below 100 million monthly active users. The real caveat lies in the fine print: some versions of that licence carry territorial restrictions that may touch the EU, so it's worth reading the clause carefully before any European deployment, on-premise included.

Skill profile

Not disclosed

Three independent measures

What people prefer, what the model can do, what the market uses. Each source has its biases and none is enough on its own: we show them side by side, never blended.

Preference
Which answer do people prefer, blind?
Not measured yet
Sensitive to answer style and length.
Capability
What can the model do on measured tasks?
Not measured yet
Aggregates ten evaluations run by Artificial Analysis.
Adoption
What does the market actually use?
Not measured yet
72.7k Hugging Face downloads
Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings). CC BY 4.0
OpenRouter traffic only: measures adoption, not quality, and misses direct use of vendor APIs.

Strengths

  • Open-source and self-hostable

Limitations

  • API pricing not disclosed

Who is it for

A good fit if…
  • you want to control cost or self-host
  • your data must stay in the EU
Skip it if…

    Ideal use cases

    • 3D asset prototyping
    • Game model generation
    • Rapid product design
    • E-commerce 3D content

    Access & availability

    Self-hostable (open weights)

    Key specifications

    Context
    0
    Input price
    —
    Output price
    —
    Speed
    —
    Price not auditedBenchmarks not audited

    What it costs per month

    Estimate from sourced API prices and a hardware tier for self-hosting. Assumptions are editable.

    Via API
    API pricing not published
    Self-hosted
    1.76 € / month
    amortised hardware 0.00 € + energy 1.76 € · or cloud GPU 26.4 €
    tier : Existing laptop / desktop (8 GB RAM, no GPU) · Q4 ≈ 4 Go

    Assumptions: 36-month amortisation, 0.25 €/kWh, 22 days/month, 1 $ = 0.92 €. Excludes labour, software licences, redundancy.

    nAIvigate Trust Index

    79/100

    What the vendor offers and documents for professional use in Europe. An undocumented criterion counts as zero and stays visible: the score rises when the vendor publishes, not when we assume.

    19/19 criteria documented · 100 % · 12 of them set by rule

    Data100
    5/5 · 30 %
    Sovereignty67
    3/3 · 20 %
    Transparency75
    4/4 · 15 %
    Enterprise100
    5/5 · 20 %
    Licence30
    2/2 · 15 %
    See the criteria▾
    Data
    EU data residencyset by rule
    No transfer outside EUset by rule
    No training on your dataset by rule
    Configurable retentionset by rule
    Zero Data Retentionset by rule
    Sovereignty
    Self-hostable (open weights)
    EU hosting offeredset by rule
    European vendorcountry: CN
    Transparency
    Published licence (URL)
    Public, sourced pricing
    Published compliance commitmentsset by rule
    Subprocessor list publishedset by rule
    Enterprise
    DPA available
    SSO / SAMLset by rule
    SCIM provisioningset by rule
    Audit logsset by rule
    SOC 2 / ISO 27001not applicable
    Vendor private endpointset by rule
    Licence
    Commercial use allowed
    Licence typetencent-hunyuan-community60
    Full ranking and methodology

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    nAIvigate Trust Index · Hunyuan3D 2.1
    [![nAIvigate Trust Index · Hunyuan3D 2.1](https://naivigate.com/badge/hunyuan3d-2-1.svg?lang=en)](https://naivigate.com/en/model/hunyuan3d-2-1)

    Data & compliance

    What we know, line by line, with source and date. These lines feed the Data and Enterprise families of the Trust Index above. GDPR compliance depends on your processing, not on the model alone.

    EU data residencyYes
    Data processing agreement (DPA)N/A· self-hosted: data never leaves
    Transfer outside the EUNo
    Training on your dataNo
    Configurable retentionN/A· self-hosted: data never leaves
    Zero Data RetentionN/A· self-hosted: data never leaves
    Self-hostableYes
    Declared hostingself
    Derived from declared hosting, not verified at source.Need an analysis in your context? Shadow AI Sentinel

    Quality of this card’s data

    44/100

    This score measures the quality of the data on this card: price, context, Elo, licence, documented, sourced and fresh. It measures neither the model nor its compliance: for that, see the Trust Index above.

    4/8 documented · 1/8 primary sources

    API pricingopen weights, no API pricingmissing
    Context windowmissing
    Arena Elomissing
    Benchmarks (MMLU, GPQA, SWE-bench…)missing
    LicencenAIvigate assessment
    Data & complianceself-hosted: derivedderived
    Adoption (Hugging Face)independent
    Hardware requirements (quantizations)computed from model sizederived

    Run it locally

    Runs on a laptop73k1k
    QuantizationDiskRAM / VRAMTypical hardware
    Q4 · recommended1.7 GB4 GBAny recent PC/Mac
    Q8 · balanced3.2 GB6 GBAny recent PC/Mac
    FP16 · max quality6 GB9 GB16GB PC / M1+ Mac / 8GB GPU

    Estimates for a moderate context. Long contexts need more RAM (KV cache).

    Deploy

    Copy-ready commands generated from this card. Adjust context length and GPU count to your hardware.

    Estimated memory · FP16 9 Go · Q4 4 Go

    OpenAI-compatible server for production on NVIDIA GPUs.

    pip install vllm
    vllm serve tencent/Hunyuan3D-2.1 \
      --max-model-len 32768 \
      --tensor-parallel-size 1 \
      --dtype auto
    tencent/Hunyuan3D-2.1
    Advanced data · for experts
    Architecture, modalities, detailed cost, full benchmarks
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    Architecture
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    Size
    3B
    Cutoff date
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    Inputs
    text
    Outputs
    text
    License
    tencent-hunyuan-community
    Hosting
    self
    Hallucination score
    —
    Estimated cost (API)
    Typical exchange (~3k in / 1k out)
    Not disclosed
    1M in + 1M out
    Not disclosed
    All benchmarks
    Arena Elo—
    MMLU—
    GPQA—
    HumanEval—
    SWE-Bench—
    MATH—

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