Hunyuan Image 3.0
Hunyuan Image 3.0 is a powerful open-weight, multimodal image generator with 80B total parameters (13B active), offering high-fidelity text-to-image synthesis and strong multilingual support.
Overview
What is Hunyuan Image 3.0
Hunyuan Image 3.0 is Tencent's advanced text-to-image model, released in September 2025. It features a Mixture-of-Experts architecture with over 80 billion total parameters and 13 billion activated per token, delivering high-quality, prompt-following image generation. The model is open-weight and supports diverse aspect ratios and complex visual reasoning.
Running it privately on Venice
Running Hunyuan Image 3.0 on Venice ensures your prompts remain private with zero retention — no data is stored or used for training. This open-weight model operates under Venice’s private-tier guarantee, giving you sovereign control over generations without sacrificing performance or compliance.
Assessment
Strengths and limitations
- Open-weight model: fully available for local deployment, fine-tuning, and modification under the Tencent Hunyuan Community License.
- Strong multilingual prompt understanding and in-image text rendering, especially for Chinese and English.
- Native support for multiple aspect ratios including cinematic (21:9) and portrait (9:16) formats.
- High visual fidelity and concept generalization, competitive with state-of-the-art closed models.
- Efficient inference options via vLLM acceleration and distilled variants for faster generation.
- License restrictions apply in the EU, UK, and South Korea — not globally permissive.
- No end-to-end encryption or TEE execution on Venice, limiting extreme-security use cases.
- Smaller community tooling compared to DALL-E or Midjourney ecosystems.
Samples
Sample outputs
Generated on Venice with our standard prompt suite — the same prompts we run through every model of this type, so you can judge it like-for-like.
A retro travel poster with the bold headline "VENICE" in large condensed serif type, sunset color palette, clean layout
Photorealistic close-up portrait of a weathered fisherman at golden hour, 85mm lens, shallow depth of field, natural skin texture
A small red cube balanced on top of a large glossy blue sphere, with a green cone to the right, plain light-grey studio background
Cozy watercolor illustration of a hillside village in autumn, warm tones, soft paper texture
Capabilities
What it supports
- Text to image
- Image to image
Specifications
Datasheet
- Maker
- Tencent
- Released
- September 28, 2025
- Modality
- Text-to-image
- Architecture
- Mixture-of-Experts (MoE)
- Total parameters
- 80B
- Active parameters per token
- 13B
- Open weights
- Yes
- Aspect ratios
- 1:1, 3:2, 16:9, 21:9, 9:16, 2:3, 3:4, 4:5
- Prompt limit
- 3,000 chars
- Privacy on Venice
- Private — zero retention
- Available on Venice since
- Mar 2026
- License
- Tencent Hunyuan Community License
API
Call it from your code
Venice exposes this model through the REST API. Queue a generation with the model id.
curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/image/generate \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "hunyuan-image-v3",
"prompt": "A serene mountain lake at dawn, photorealistic"
}' --output image.pngPricing
What it costs on Venice
Flat per-image pricing on Venice: $0.09 per generation.
New Venice accounts include a free daily allowance and 500 welcome credits — no credit card required.
Alternatives
How it compares
| Model | Max resolution | Strongest at | Open weights | Price (Venice) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hunyuan Image 3.0 | 2K | Multilingual text, open deployment | No | $0.09 / image |
| Flux 2 Max | 4MP | Photoreal detail | No | $0.09 / image |
| Grok Imagine High Quality (SOTA) | — | Speed & integration | No | from $0.06 / image |
| Chroma | — | Speed & simplicity | Yes | $0.01 / image |
Open-weight strength with strong Chinese/English text rendering and flexible deployment.
Use cases
What it is good for
- 01Multilingual content creation requiring accurate Chinese or English text in images.
- 02Local or enterprise deployment where data sovereignty and model control are critical.
- 03Creative workflows needing customizable, uncensored image generation without API dependency.
- 04Research and development of novel image-generation pipelines using open weights.
- 05Applications requiring fine-grained control over aspect ratios and layout composition.
Prompting
Getting better results
Use clear, structured prompts with explicit layout instructions for best results.
Leverage the 3,000-character limit to include detailed scene descriptions and style cues.
For multilingual text rendering, specify language and use quotes around the exact text to appear in the image.
Version history
Predecessor with 17B parameters.
Current — MoE, 80B total params, open weights.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Hunyuan Image 3.0 is Tencent's open-weight text-to-image model released in September 2025. It features a Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 80B total parameters and strong multilingual capabilities, particularly in Chinese and English text rendering.
Hunyuan Image 3.0 costs $0.09 per image generation on Venice, with additional fees for upscaling: $0.02 for 2× and $0.08 for 4×.
Hunyuan Image 3.0 is open-weight — the model weights and inference code are publicly available under the Tencent Hunyuan Community License. However, it is not fully open source due to license restrictions in certain regions.
Hunyuan Image 3.0 is a native image generation model and does not support external tool use. It operates as a standalone text-to-image system without API chaining or plugin capabilities.
Hunyuan Image 3.0 supports native 2K resolution (2048×2048) and multiple aspect ratios including 1:1, 3:2, 16:9, 21:9, 9:16, 2:3, 3:4, and 4:5.
Hunyuan Image 3.0 excels in multilingual text rendering and higher visual complexity, while Chroma is faster and significantly cheaper at $0.01 per image. Choose Hunyuan for quality and control, Chroma for cost-sensitive, high-volume use.
Yes. On Venice, Hunyuan Image 3.0 runs with zero retention — your prompts are not stored, profiled, or used for training. This ensures full privacy while leveraging a powerful open-weight model.
Run Hunyuan Image 3.0 privately
No prompt logging. No data used for training.