Hermes 3 405B Instruct (free)

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Hermes 3 405B Instruct (free) is estimated at $0 for the standard workload.

Hermes 3 405B Instruct (free) is best suited for free or experimental evaluation. A 1M input token plus 500K output token workload is estimated at $0.

Input price$0per 1M tokens
Output price$0per 1M tokens
Context window131.07Kreported maximum
Popularity#25710.9M tokens signal volume

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Model Specs
ProviderNous
Model IDnousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-405b:free
Prompt Price
per 1M tokens		$0
Completion Price
per 1M tokens		$0
Sample Workload Cost
1M input + 500K output		$0
Context Window131.07K
Release Date
Popularity#257
Popularity Signal10.9M tokens

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Model Introduction

Hermes 3 is a generalist language model with many improvements over Hermes 2, including advanced agentic capabilities, much better roleplaying, reasoning, multi-turn conversation, long context coherence, and improvements across the...

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Hermes 3 405B Instruct (free) is best suited for free or experimental evaluation.

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A 1M input token plus 500K output token workload is estimated at $0.

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