Tencent Hunyuan 3.5 surfaces early on OnSolo, testers benchmark it against Midjourney and GPT Image

Tencent's unreleased Hunyuan 3.5 (HY-IMAGE-3.5) image generation model surfaced on the OnSolo platform for early free testing before any official announcement, drawing strong early reviews from multiple testers.

Confirmed

• Hunyuan 3.5 is available for early access on OnSolo, free for platform members.
• FellMentKE tested it across classical fine-art styles, dark stylized compositions and portraits, and judged it capable of competing with GPT Image-2.
• HeyToha compared it with Midjourney V8.2: in East Asian ink-wash landscapes, Hunyuan accurately rendered watercolor paper texture, layered green mountains and delicate calligraphic brushwork, while MJ was smoother but lacked authentic painting texture; in a dark cinematic horror-corridor scene, Hunyuan's light-cutting-through-darkness atmosphere was rated superior to MJ.
• SarahAnnabels tested multiple prompts and was impressed by its detail, lighting, texture and composition, recommending trying it before public beta.

Unconfirmed

• The model leaked via a non-official channel; release timing, pricing and full capabilities remain unconfirmed, and all evaluations come from individual early users.

Why it matters

• In a market led by Midjourney and GPT Image, Hunyuan 3.5's differentiation in ink-wash texture and cinematic lighting suggests domestic Chinese models are competitive in stylized generation, worth tracking after public beta.

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