Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct
Nous Hermes 3 70B shows modest benchmark results with an intelligence index of just 10.6, placing it well below current business-grade models; it supports function calling and is reasonably priced, but is outclassed by newer alternatives for most professional use cases.
Assessment date: April 4, 2026
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Performance Profile
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
| Modality | Text → Text |
| Tokenizer | Llama3 |
| Instruct Type | chatml |
| Parameters | 70B |
Benchmark Scores
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Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
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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 |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.30 | $0.000300 |
| Output | $0.30 | $0.000300 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
