Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct
Nous Hermes 3 70B offers a large 131K context window and function calling at a reasonable price, but its benchmark scores are limited and it trails significantly behind current top-tier models in reasoning and coding capability.
Assessment date: March 12, 2026
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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 board. Hermes 3 70B is a competitive, if not superior finetune of the Llama-3.1 70B foundation model, focused on aligning LLMs to the user, with powerful steering capabilities and control given to the end user. The Hermes 3 series builds and expands on the Hermes 2 set of capabilities, including more powerful and reliable function calling and structured output capabilities, generalist assistant capabilities, and improved code generation skills.
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text → Text |
| Tokenizer | Llama3 |
| Instruct Type | chatml |
| Parameters | 70B |
Benchmark Scores
Evaluations
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
Model Information
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.
