Tencent Hunyuan Releases Hy Image 3.5 Preview

The pricing structure is the real story here: charging only for output images, and at a low per-image rate, lowers the cost of iterative or conversational creation, where most attempts are discarded. That matters for teams weighing whether to build image generation into products, since the dominant cost becomes successful outputs rather than experimentation. Whether that model holds as usage scales, and whether the domestic and international price gap reflects different market conditions, is worth watching.