Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct
Analysis Summary
Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct sits in the Professional tier on our leaderboard, ranked #10 of 565 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.300 input and $0.300 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a standard large context window.
Editorial notes
Nous Hermes 3 70B has an intelligence index of 10.6 and modest benchmark scores across reasoning and coding, making it suitable only for lighter general tasks at its competitive price point.
Assessed May 28, 2026
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Performance Profile
How Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct compares
Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct ranks #293 of 370 AI models we track for overall intelligence. Its 131K-token context window is larger than 60% of the models we list. At $0.30 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 43% of comparable models.
About Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct
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..
Architecture Detail
| Instruct Type | chatml |
Benchmark Scores
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
nousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-70b
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| Provider | nousresearch |
| Release Date | August 18, 2024 |
| Context Length | 131,072 tokens |
| Max Completion | 16,384 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.30 | $0.000300 |
| Output | $0.30 | $0.000300 |
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Frequently asked questions about Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct
How much does Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct cost?
Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct?
Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct has a context window of 131,072 tokens (131K).
Who created Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct?
Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct is developed by Nous and was released on August 18, 2024.
