Hermes 3 405B Instruct

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Budget brief

Hermes 3 405B Instruct is estimated at $1.5 for the standard workload.

Hermes 3 405B Instruct is best suited for general API evaluation. A 1M input token plus 500K output token workload is estimated at $1.5.

Input price$1per 1M tokens
Output price$1per 1M tokens
Context window131.07Kreported maximum
Popularity#20293.9M tokens signal volume

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Model Specs
ProviderNous
Model IDnousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-405b
Prompt Price
per 1M tokens
$1
Completion Price
per 1M tokens
$1
Sample Workload Cost
1M input + 500K output
$1.5
Context Window131.07K
Release Date
Popularity#202
Popularity Signal93.9M tokens

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Unit prices $1 input / $1 output Per 1M 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 is best suited for general API evaluation.

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A 1M input token plus 500K output token workload is estimated at $1.5.

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