Using Hy-MT2 1.8B on Vercel AI Gateway

Implementation guide · Hy-MT2 · Tencent AI Lab

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Vercel AI Gateway exposes Hy-MT2 1.8B through model ID tencent/hy-mt2-lite. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

Last refreshed 2026-10-19. Next refresh: weekly.

Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at Vercel AI Gateway and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the Vercel AI Gateway SDK or REST API to call tencent/hy-mt2-lite — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $0.04/1M input, $0.18/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

Install
pip install openai
API key
AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY
Model ID
tencent/hy-mt2-lite

creator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],
    base_url="https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="tencent/hy-mt2-lite",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Pricing on Vercel AI Gateway

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$0.04
Output tokens$0.18

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

About Hy-MT2 1.8B

Tencent Hy-MT2 multilingual translation model (1.8B). Open weights Apache-2.0 on HF. Tencent's own USD per-token price was not available at research time, so the first-party listing has no USD token price.

Model Specs

Released2026-05-11
Parameters1.8B
Context8K
ArchitectureDecoder Only

Provider

Vercel AI Gateway

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