# Hunyuan Image

> HunyuanImage 3.0 is Tencent's open image model, released on 28 September 2025: an 80-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model (13B active) that handles text and images together, which Tencent calls the largest open-source image MoE. An Instruct version for editing followed on 26 January 2026. On Kenerate: Hunyuan Image 3 costs 30 credits, Hunyuan Image 2.1 7.5 (native 2K), and Hunyuan Image 3 Instruct 135 with up to 2 reference images.

URL: https://kenerateai.com/model/hunyuan-image
Publisher: Kenerate AI (https://kenerateai.com)
Last updated: 27 September 2026

## Key facts
- Maker: Tencent Hunyuan
- Released: 28 Sep 2025
- Size: 80B MoE, 13B active
- On Kenerate: From 7.5 credits

## Steps
1. Open Hunyuan Image — Pick Hunyuan Image 3 or 2.1 in /app/image. Any credit pack unlocks it.
2. Describe a rich scene — It shines with cultural, historical and technical detail.
3. Edit with Instruct — Upload up to 2 images to Hunyuan Image 3 Instruct and describe the change.
4. Check any text — Proofread labels and headings before using the image.

## In depth

### A mixture-of-experts image model
HunyuanImage 3.0 models text and images together in one autoregressive mixture-of-experts network: 64 experts, 80B parameters in total and about 13B active per token [1]. That size is where its world knowledge comes from.

### When to pick Hunyuan
Pick it for scenes that need knowledge — traditional art forms, historical settings, technical cutaways, maps. For clean text, pick GPT Image 2; for cheap drafts, Flux 2 Dev.

References:
[1] Tencent Hunyuan — HunyuanImage-3.0 (GitHub): https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/HunyuanImage-3.0

## FAQ
Q: What is HunyuanImage 3.0?
A: Tencent's open image model released on 28 September 2025 — an 80B-parameter mixture of experts with 13B active parameters.

Q: How much does Hunyuan cost on Kenerate?
A: Hunyuan Image 2.1 is 7.5 credits, Hunyuan Image 3 is 30, and Hunyuan Image 3 Instruct is 135.

Q: Is HunyuanImage 3.0 open source?
A: Tencent released the weights on GitHub and Hugging Face under its own community licence.

Q: Is it good at text?
A: Mixed in our tests: short Chinese calligraphy looked right, but a longer English chalkboard heading came out garbled.

## Related pages
- Qwen Image: https://kenerateai.com/model/qwen-image
- Z-Image: https://kenerateai.com/model/z-image
- Seedream: https://kenerateai.com/model/seedream
- All models: https://kenerateai.com/model

## Sources
- Tencent Hunyuan — HunyuanImage-3.0 (GitHub): https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/HunyuanImage-3.0