Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct
Analysis Summary
Nous Research's Hermes 3 70B Instruct is a community fine-tune of Meta's Llama 3.1 70B, offering a 131K token context window at moderate pricing. Only a limited intelligence score is available, with no coding, agentic, or instruction-following benchmarks reported.
It may suit general-purpose chat and drafting tasks where the underlying Llama 3.1 70B capabilities carry through, but businesses cannot verify coding or agentic reliability from available data.
At $0.70 per million tokens for input and output, it sits at a similar price point to better-documented alternatives, making it a harder recommendation without clearer benchmark evidence.
Assessed July 25, 2026
Editorial notes
Hermes 3 70B Instruct from Nous Research is a fine-tuned Llama variant with a 131K context window, though most benchmark categories are unreported.
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DFO Verdict
Hermes 3 70B Instruct from Nous Research is a fine-tuned Llama variant with a 131K context window, though most benchmark categories are unreported.
How Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct compares
Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct ranks #329 of 398 AI models we track for overall intelligence. Its 131K-token context window is larger than 53% of the models we list. At $0.70 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 31% of comparable models.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Strongest on value. The pulled-in technical corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
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| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.70 | $0.000700 |
| Output | $0.70 | $0.000700 |
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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.
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Talk to our teamAbout 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..
Frequently asked questions about Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct
How much does Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct cost?
Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct costs $0.70 per million input tokens and $0.70 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.
