Key Terms
- Credits (积分) - CodeBuddy's resource-quota unit. Every chat/agent request consumes credits; consumption depends on the model's per-token rate and task complexity. Monthly credits expire at month end and do not roll over. Source: Codebuddy – Credits
- Auto model scheduling (Auto模型调度) - the Trial plan's model mode, where the system picks the model; during the current limited-time free promotion the free tier gets all models selectable instead of Auto-only. Source: Codebuddy – Pricing
- Auto tasks (自动任务) - CodeBuddy's count of persistent agent tasks (cloud-run tasks that keep working after you close the IDE); capped at 3/15/30/99 per month by tier, temporarily 99 on all tiers during the free promotion. Source: Codebuddy – Pricing
- 限免 (limited-time free) - marker used across the pricing page for temporarily boosted limits, e.g. unlimited code completion on the free tier, 99 auto tasks, 5 collaborators per project on Trial. No end date is published for these boosts. Source: Codebuddy – Pricing
- 连续包月 / 连续包年 (consecutive monthly / annual subscription) - auto-renewing billing cycles that unlock the promo prices: 30% off (7折, ¥70/¥140/¥700 monthly) or 44% off (5.6折, ¥672/¥1,344/¥6,720 per year). Source: Codebuddy – Pricing
- CloudAgent - Tencent's cloud-hosted agent platform (launched April 10, 2026) that runs CodeBuddy Code headless in sandboxed containers 24/7, with Runtime/Session/Checkpoint/Version abstractions, ACP and E2B-compatible APIs, and A2A agent-to-agent protocol support. Source: Codebuddy
- WorkBuddy - Tencent's AI office workbench in public beta (Chinese name 腾讯龙虾, "Tencent Lobster"), positioned as an "AI expert team" for non-coding office work; CodeBuddy plan credits are shared across CodeBuddy and WorkBuddy. Sources: Codebuddy – Work , Codebuddy – Pricing
- TokenHub - the new Tencent Cloud console platform that Hunyuan model capabilities are migrating to; after migration the legacy Hunyuan platform stops supporting new model purchases. Pricing for new flagship models now lives behind the TokenHub console, not the public docs page. Source: Tencent – Product
- Hosted apps / per-app resource quota - plans include cloud hosting for apps the agent builds (10 to 99 apps), each with a monthly resource quota of 5,000 to 150,000 units, sized roughly at 500MB to 100GB database capacity and 20 to 300 requests/second rate limits. Source: Codebuddy – Pricing
Latest Changes
First report for this supplier. All models, plans, and pricing are listed as current state.
- Model launch: Hunyuan Hy4 preview, a 770B total / 49B activated MoE with 1M-token context, was open-sourced under Apache 2.0 (plus an FP8 variant) on Hugging Face, ModelScope, GitCode, and CNB on August 28, 2026. Source: GitHub – Hy4 Preview
- Free trial: Hy4 preview was free to use inside CodeBuddy/WorkBuddy from August 28 to September 10, 2026 ("agent and complex-task execution fully upgraded, free for two weeks"), switched via a
workbuddy://switch-model?modelId=hy4-previewdeep link. Source: Codebuddy – Pricing - Product launch: WorkBuddy, the AI office-suite sibling to CodeBuddy (100+ domain experts, desktop clients for macOS 12+/Windows 10+, WeChat/WeCom/QQ/Feishu/DingTalk bots, mini-program), is in public beta; the same CodeBuddy plans apply to it. Sources: Codebuddy – Work , Codebuddy – Pricing
- Enterprise bundle: The enterprise tier was "upgraded to an agent office suite" (WorkBuddy + CodeBuddy + Tencent Docs + Lexiang knowledge base + Tencent Drive 50GB/seat + Ardot design + security/efficiency platform) at ¥198/seat/month, plus a ¥316/seat single-tenant Dedicated edition (100-seat minimum) and an on-premises private deployment option. Source: Codebuddy – Pricing
- Promo (active): A limited-time "double credits" enterprise promo grants an extra 2,000 bonus credits per seat per month on top of the standard 2,000 for new purchases, renewals, and expansions; end date undisclosed. Source: Codebuddy – Pricing
- Platform migration: Tencent Cloud's Hunyuan billing doc (updated June 26, 2026) states mainline Hunyuan capabilities are migrating to TokenHub and the legacy platform will stop supporting new model purchases; the public legacy price list now carries only specialty models (a13b, role, translation, vision, embedding). Source: Tencent – Product
- Prior launch (context): CodeBuddy CloudAgent launched April 10, 2026, providing the cloud Harness (Runtime, Session, Checkpoint, Version, sandbox clusters, artifact publishing) that powers CodeBuddy Agents, Genie, Miora, Ardot, and WorkBuddy's cloud mode. Source: Codebuddy
- Prior launch (context): CodeBuddy Agent SDK launched January 27, 2026, embedding CodeBuddy Agent capabilities in TypeScript/JavaScript or Python applications. Source: Codebuddy
- Blog cadence: No blog posts were published in September 2026 (or May through August); the newest post remains the April 10 CloudAgent announcement, and /blog/35 does not exist as of October 3, 2026. Sources: Codebuddy , Codebuddy
Plans
Personal plans (monthly single-payment prices; the same plans apply to WorkBuddy). USD figures are approximate at 7.1 CNY/USD.
| Plan | Price (monthly) | Price (annual) | Usage limits | Key inclusions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trial (体验版) | ¥0 (about $0), "limited-time free" | ¥0 | 500 credits/month (1-month validity); 5,000 code completions (promo: unlimited); 3 auto tasks (promo: 99) | Auto model scheduling (promo: all models selectable), 5 projects, 3 collaborators/project (promo: 5), 5GB knowledge base, 10 hosted apps |
| Standard (标准版) | ¥99/mo (about $14); ¥70/mo on auto-renew monthly (30% off) | ¥672/yr (about $95, vs ¥1,188 list; 44% off; ≈¥56/mo) | 2,000 base + 2,000 bonus credits/month (4,000 total); unlimited completions; 15 auto tasks (promo: 99) | All models selectable, 10 projects, 5 collaborators/project, 10GB knowledge base, 30 hosted apps, per-app quota 25,000 units (~3GB DB, 50 req/s) |
| Advanced (高级版) | ¥199/mo (about $28); ¥140/mo auto-renew | ¥1,344/yr (vs ¥2,388 list; ≈¥112/mo) | 4,000 base + 5,000 bonus credits/month (9,000 total); unlimited completions; 30 auto tasks (promo: 99) | All models, 15 projects, 8 collaborators/project, 20GB knowledge base, 50 hosted apps, per-app quota 50,000 units (~10GB DB, 100 req/s) |
| Flagship (旗舰版) | ¥999/mo (about $140); ¥700/mo auto-renew | ¥6,720/yr (vs ¥11,988 list; ≈¥560/mo) | 20,000 base + 30,000 bonus credits/month (50,000 total); unlimited completions; 99 auto tasks | All models, early feature access (priority), 20 projects, 10 collaborators/project, 50GB knowledge base, 99 hosted apps, per-app quota 150,000 units (~100GB DB, 300 req/s) |
| Enterprise Flagship (企业旗舰版) | ¥198/seat/mo (about $28) | undisclosed | 2,000 + 2,000 bonus credits/seat/month (double-credits promo); 1 seat minimum | Centralized seat/usage management, enterprise Skills/experts/agents, enterprise model config, security and operations audit, OpenAPI, dedicated network access, enterprise plugins, dedicated service instances, tenant data isolation, Tencent Docs/Drive/Lexiang/Ardot bundle (Drive 50GB/seat) |
| Enterprise Dedicated (专享版) | ¥316/seat/mo (about $44) | undisclosed | 2,000 + 2,000 bonus credits/seat/month; 100 seat minimum | Single-tenant dedicated deployment; same feature list as Enterprise Flagship; suite benefits marked "coming soon" |
| Private deployment (私有化) | undisclosed (contact sales) | undisclosed | undisclosed | WorkBuddy Enterprise on-premises local deployment, described as "full-stack, self-controlled" |
Terms explained:
- Credits - see Key Terms; all chat and agent requests consume credits at rates that vary by model and task complexity; monthly credits do not roll over, and personal top-up packs (个人加量包) can extend quota for one month. Source: Codebuddy – Credits
- Per-app resource quota - monthly cloud resources (database, traffic, storage) for each hosted app, self-service enabled and refreshed monthly; the 500MB to 100GB database and 20 to 300 req/s figures are Tencent's own estimates. Source: Codebuddy – Pricing
- Auto-renew promo pricing - the ¥70/¥140/¥700 prices require the consecutive monthly subscription (7折); single-month purchases pay list price; the annual 5.6折 discount prices are ¥672/¥1,344/¥6,720. No end dates published. Source: Codebuddy – Pricing
Source: Codebuddy – Pricing
API Pricing
CodeBuddy itself is credit-billed, not token-billed: every conversation request consumes credits, with consumption determined by the model's token pricing (higher-tier models cost more credits per token) and task complexity (long code analysis, multi-turn dialog, and knowledge-base retrieval cost more). No per-model credit consumption table is published, so credit burn per request is undisclosed. Deduction order is earliest-expiring first (personal plans, personal top-up packs, enterprise monthly allotments, enterprise top-ups), with base credits consumed before bonus credits at equal expiry. Personal monthly plans are valid from purchase date to the same date next month (annual plans for a natural year); after expiry the account drops to Trial-level allowances. Source: Codebuddy – Credits
Tencent Cloud's legacy Hunyuan pay-as-you-go price list (page updated June 26, 2026), per million tokens in CNY:
| Model (legacy Hunyuan platform) | Input (¥/MTok) | Output (¥/MTok) | Free quota |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunyuan-a13b | ¥0.5 | ¥2 | 1M tokens (shared pool, 1-year validity) |
| Hunyuan-role-latest | ¥2.4 | ¥9.6 | shares the 1M-token pool |
| Hunyuan-translation | ¥1.2 | ¥3.6 | shares the 1M-token pool |
| Hunyuan-translation-lite | ¥1 | ¥3 | shares the 1M-token pool |
| Tencent HY Vision 1.5 Instruct | ¥3 | ¥9 | shares the 1M-token pool |
| Hunyuan-turbos-vision | ¥3 | ¥9 | shares the 1M-token pool |
| Hunyuan-t1-vision | ¥3 | ¥9 | shares the 1M-token pool |
| Hunyuan-turbos-vision-video | ¥3 | ¥9 | shares the 1M-token pool |
| Hunyuan-embedding | ¥0.7 | ¥0.7 | 1M tokens (1-year validity) |
The page carries a migration notice: Hunyuan capabilities are moving to TokenHub, after which the legacy platform will not add new models and will stop supporting new purchases; existing purchases continue. Flagship coding models (Hy4 preview, Hy3 family, Turbo) have no public per-token prices on this page, and TokenHub pricing sits behind the login-gated console. Postpaid billing is opt-in (settings toggle), billed monthly on the 1st to 3rd, and failed API calls are not billed. Sources: Tencent – Product , Tencent – Product
Model Performance / Benchmarks
Hy4 preview's headline benchmark tables are published only as images (benchmark.jpg, benchmark-appendix.jpg) in the repository, so exact SWE-bench-style scores are not extractable as text. Verifiable numbers:
| Metric | Hy4 preview | Comparison | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Architecture | 770B total / 49B active MoE, 78 layers, 256 routed + 1 shared expert, top-8 routing, 1M-token context | vs DeepSeek/GLM-inspired Gated DSA attention with IndexCache | Apache 2.0 open weights, plus FP8 variant and a native MTP layer (10B/0.7B) for speculative decoding. Source: GitHub – Hy4 Preview |
| Internal blind eval vs GLM 5.3 | 2.99 avg score (163 internal experts, 203 engineering tasks) | GLM 5.3: 2.92; win rate 46.8% / tie 12.8% / loss 40.4% | Co-designed with CodeBuddy and WorkBuddy. Source: GitHub – Hy4 Preview |
| Internal blind eval vs Kimi K3 | 2.99 avg score | Kimi K3: 2.94; win rate 51.2% / tie 7.9% / loss 40.9% | Same 163-expert, 203-task protocol. Source: GitHub – Hy4 Preview |
| Positioning claim | "enough to put Hy4 preview at the open-source frontier"; "largest generation-over-generation gain we've measured" | vs Hy3 preview predecessor | Self-reported. Source: GitHub – Hy4 Preview |
| Known limitations | Over-reasoning on complex tasks; tendency to over-verify its own work | n/a | Stated by Tencent in the README. Source: GitHub – Hy4 Preview |
| Community reception | GitHub repo at 391 stars / 21 forks (viewed October 3, 2026) | n/a | Source: GitHub – Hy4 Preview |
No independent (third-party) coding benchmark results for Hy4 preview or for CodeBuddy's harness were found in the September window. CodeBuddy publishes no SWE-bench-style scores of its own.
Latest News
Hy4 Preview Open-Sourced (August 28, 2026)
Tencent's Hy team released Hy4 preview weights (770B/49B MoE, 1M context) and an FP8 variant on Hugging Face, ModelScope, GitCode, and CNB under Apache 2.0, with vLLM and SGLang recipes and a complete finetuning pipeline (AngelSlim for quantization). Recommended inference settings: temperature 0.9, top_p 1.0, reasoning mode defaults to "high" with a no_think escape hatch. Source: GitHub – Hy4 Preview
Hy4 Preview Free Trial in CodeBuddy/WorkBuddy (August 28 to September 10, 2026)
The CodeBuddy site banner promoted a two-week free trial: "Hy4 preview invites you to try it free! 8.28-9.10, agent and complex-task execution fully upgraded, free for two weeks," with a deep link switching WorkBuddy to modelId hy4-preview. What happens to Hy4 preview availability and pricing after September 10 was not announced. Source: Codebuddy – Pricing
WorkBuddy Public Beta (ongoing as of September 30, 2026)
WorkBuddy (Tencent Lobster) is in public beta as an AI office workbench: 100+ domain experts covering operations, design, data, and development; one-sentence autonomous planning; MCP ecosystem and custom Skills; desktop clients (macOS 12+, Windows 10+, Linux via UnionTech UOS and Kylin app stores), WeChat/WeCom/QQ/Feishu/DingTalk bots, and a mini-program. CodeBuddy plans explicitly apply to WorkBuddy. Source: Codebuddy – Work
Enterprise Suite Pricing and Double-Credits Promo (live as of September 30, 2026)
The enterprise tab prices Flagship at ¥198/seat/month (1-seat minimum) and Dedicated single-tenant at ¥316/seat/month (100-seat minimum), with a limited-time double-credits promo (2,000 standard + 2,000 bonus credits per seat per month) and an on-premises private deployment inquiry option. The suite bundles Tencent Docs (10 AI-native editors), Lexiang knowledge base, Tencent Drive (50GB/seat), Ardot design, and a security/efficiency platform with org-level analytics and AI data-security audit. Source: Codebuddy – Pricing
Hunyuan API Platform Migrating to TokenHub (notice live, page updated June 26, 2026)
Tencent Cloud's Hunyuan billing overview states that Hunyuan capabilities will progressively migrate to TokenHub; the legacy platform stops adding models and stops supporting new purchases, while existing purchases continue. The public legacy price list retains only a13b, role, translation, vision, and embedding models at ¥0.5 to ¥9.6 per MTok. Source: Tencent – Product
No September Blog Activity (as of October 3, 2026)
The CodeBuddy blog's newest entry remains the CloudAgent launch post from April 10, 2026; there are no May-September 2026 posts, and /blog/35 returns "blog content not found." September communication happened through site banners, the pricing page, and the open-source release instead. Sources: Codebuddy , Codebuddy
Context: CloudAgent Launch (April 10, 2026)
CloudAgent provides the cloud Harness layer around CodeBuddy Code: 24/7 headless execution, Checkpoint/Version state management, sandbox preheat pools (P95 runtime creation cut from tens of seconds to milliseconds), Fork-entire-runtime copying, ACP and E2B-compatible APIs, A2A multi-agent interop, and a four-layer security model (non-persistent credentials via auth-proxy, prompt-injection filtering, dangerous-command interception, sandbox isolation). Genie, Miora, Ardot, CodeBuddy Agents, and WorkBuddy's cloud mode all run on it. Source: Codebuddy
Context: Agent SDK Launch (January 27, 2026)
The CodeBuddy Agent SDK provides programmatic interfaces to embed CodeBuddy Agent capabilities into any TypeScript/JavaScript or Python application. Source: Codebuddy
Community Signals
No HackerNews Footprint for CodeBuddy in the September Window
An Algolia search for "codebuddy" stories created after August 14, 2026 returned zero hits (nbHits: 0). A broader no-date search of all "codebuddy" stories on HackerNews also returns no Tencent CodeBuddy submission at all; every match is an unrelated product (Claude Code "buddy" toys, a 2014 app, a 2022 VS Code extension). Tencent's community engagement clearly runs through WeChat channels (CodeBuddy and WorkBuddy official accounts, QR codes on every page) rather than Western forums. Sources: Hn – Search By Date , Hn – Search
Hy4 Preview Submission: Minimal Traction (2 points, 0 comments)
The only in-window Hunyuan story is "Tencent Hy4 Preview LLM," submitted August 28, 2026, linking to the GitHub release; it drew 2 points and 0 comments. The release itself is the signal (open 770B/49B weights with 1M context under Apache 2.0), not the discussion. Story: News – Item
CodeBuddy Cited as an Optimization Target by DeepSeek's Community (context, April 24, 2026)
The most recent HN mention of Tencent's CodeBuddy is a DeepSeek V4 launch breakdown (5 points): "Trained specifically against Claude Code, OpenClaw, OpenCode, and CodeBuddy. V4-Pro is now the recommended model for any agentic/coding workflow." Being named alongside Claude Code and OpenClaw as a harness DeepSeek trained against is third-party evidence that CodeBuddy has real agentic-coding mindshare, at least among Chinese model teams. Quote: News – Item
Reddit Unavailable
A search of old.reddit.com for "codebuddy" (sorted by new, past month) was blocked by Reddit's login wall and could not be used this cycle. No Reddit quotes are included.
Reddit recovery (added 2026-10-03)
A logged-out Reddit recovery pass (October 3) found no CodeBuddy threads above 100 votes. The query surfaced r/DeepSeek (14 upvotes, 7 comments, ~Sep 15): "DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash's official partners? WorkBuddy vs. opencode" Reddit – Deepseekv41Flashs Official Partners Workbuddy Vs , evidence that users weigh WorkBuddy as a DeepSeek harness, plus low-vote Tencent open-source releases (BrowserSkill 37 upvotes, TeamAI-CLI 16 upvotes). Note: the r/CodeBuddyAI community (16 weekly visitors) is an unrelated Canadian product.
Enterprise Readiness
| Feature | Available? | Details |
|---|---|---|
| SSO (SAML/OIDC) | Undisclosed | Not mentioned on the pricing page, enterprise tab, or docs consulted; identity model appears tied to Tencent Cloud accounts and WeChat login. Source: Codebuddy – Pricing |
| SCIM | Undisclosed | Not mentioned in any public material reviewed. |
| Audit logs | Yes | "Enterprise security and operations audit" plus a security/efficiency platform with "enterprise AI data security audit" and org/personal efficiency analytics on the enterprise tab. Source: Codebuddy – Pricing |
| IP indemnity | No | Not mentioned on any pricing, docs, or enterprise page. |
| Data residency | Partial | Tenant data isolation and dedicated network access on enterprise plans; the offering is China-region (China site), with no published residency regions or selection options. Source: Codebuddy – Pricing |
| HIPAA | No | Not mentioned; no US healthcare compliance claims anywhere in the public material. |
| Air-gapped / on-prem | Yes | "WorkBuddy Enterprise" private deployment offers local, on-premises installation described as full-stack self-controlled; pricing undisclosed, sales contact required. Source: Codebuddy – Pricing |
| SLA | No | No publicly documented uptime or latency SLA on pricing or docs pages. |
| Admin controls (RBAC) | Yes | Centralized member usage and seat management, enterprise model configuration, enterprise Skills/agents/experts, fine-grained permission control in bundled Tencent Docs, and a single admin console for the suite. Source: Codebuddy – Pricing |
| OpenAPI | Yes | Listed as an enterprise feature (for programmatic integration). Source: Codebuddy – Pricing |
Terms explained:
- Tenant data isolation (数据租户隔离) - enterprise customer data is separated per tenant on shared infrastructure; the Dedicated edition upgrades this to a single-tenant deployment. Source: Codebuddy – Pricing
- Dedicated network access (专属网络访问) - a private network path to the service instance, similar to a VPC endpoint, listed for enterprise plans. Source: Codebuddy – Pricing
Transparency Gaps
| Gap | Details | Severity |
|---|---|---|
| Per-model credit consumption | No table maps models or task types to credit costs; users cannot predict how many of their monthly credits a coding task will burn. Consumption "varies by model and task complexity" is the only disclosure. Source: Codebuddy – Credits | High |
| Hy4 preview availability post-trial | The free trial ended September 10 with no announcement of ongoing availability, plan requirements, or pricing for Hy4 preview inside CodeBuddy/WorkBuddy. | High |
| Flagship Hunyuan API pricing | The legacy Hunyuan price list no longer carries flagship coding models; TokenHub pricing is behind a login-gated console, so per-token costs for current flagship models are publicly unavailable. Source: Tencent – Product | High |
| Promo end dates | Neither the 30%/44% personal subscription discounts, the enterprise double-credits promo, nor the free-tier "限免" boosts (unlimited completions, 99 auto tasks) publish end dates. Source: Codebuddy – Pricing | Medium |
| Benchmark data as images | Hy4 preview's benchmark tables are JPG images with no text/JSON publication, preventing extraction or independent verification of exact scores. Source: GitHub – Hy4 Preview | Medium |
| Rate limits and queuing | Model access is governed by a priority system ("members get priority; even members may queue at peak"), with no published queue rates, tokens/minute, or requests/minute per tier. Source: Codebuddy – Pricing | Medium |
| Enterprise private-deployment pricing | On-premises WorkBuddy Enterprise exists but has no public price, sizing guidance, or hardware requirements. Source: Codebuddy – Pricing | Medium |
| Auto model scheduling policy | The free tier's "Auto" model routing does not disclose which models are selected or by what policy. Source: Codebuddy – Pricing | Low |
| English-language documentation | Pricing, credits, and enterprise details are Chinese-only; the international site (copilot.tencent.com) mirrors the same JS-rendered pages without an English pricing table, raising adoption friction for non-Chinese teams. Source: Codebuddy – Pricing | Low |