NousResearch: Hermes 2 Pro – Llama-3 8B
Analysis Summary
NousResearch: Hermes 2 Pro – Llama-3 8B sits in the Legacy tier on our leaderboard, ranked #426 of 551 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.140 input and $0.140 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a compact context window.
Editorial notes
Hermes 2 Pro Llama-3 8B from NousResearch has no benchmark data and a small 8K context, with low pricing that suits only experimental or niche fine-tuned use cases.
Assessed May 5, 2026
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Performance Profile
Hermes 2 Pro is an upgraded, retrained version of Nous Hermes 2, consisting of an updated and cleaned version of the OpenHermes 2.5 Dataset, as well as a newly introduced..
Architecture Detail
| Instruct Type | chatml |
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
nousresearch/hermes-2-pro-llama-3-8b
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| Provider | nousresearch |
| Release Date | May 27, 2024 |
| Context Length | 8,192 tokens |
| Max Completion | 8,192 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.14 | $0.000140 |
| Output | $0.14 | $0.000140 |
Live Performance
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