--- title: "Nous: Hermes 3 405B Instruct — unrated, priced in this catalogue · Undominated.ai" canonical: https://undominated.ai/models/nousresearch__hermes-3-llama-3.1-405b/ description: "Nous: Hermes 3 405B Instruct: $1.00/M in, $1.00/M out. No independent quality score in this catalogue — unrated, not ranked, not scored zero." --- # Nous: Hermes 3 405B Instruct — unrated, priced in this catalogue · Undominated.ai > Nous: Hermes 3 405B Instruct: $1.00/M in, $1.00/M out. No independent quality score in this catalogue — unrated, not ranked, not scored zero. [Check base rates for this workload](/check/nousresearch__hermes-3-llama-3.1-405b/) [Cheaper alternatives](/alternatives/) [Family](/families/hermes/) [Compare models](https://undominated.ai/compare/?models=nousresearch%2Fhermes-3-llama-3.1-405b) Comparison context Choose up to three standard models in Compare. Requirements and prompt length apply in Compare. This page keeps its stated price basis and workload controls. MODEL PROOF # Hermes 3 405B Instruct Nous Research · 16 Aug 2024 Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic NOT INDEPENDENTLY RATED ## No independent LMArena score is published for this model. **$1.00** / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026 [openrouter/models](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) Independent LMArena score Not independently rated Context window 131.07K Maximum output 16.38K Input modalities text Output modalities text Published input price $1.00 / 1M tokens Published output price $1.00 / 1M tokens Pricing kind fixed Inspect [complete billing conditions](#billing-details) and endpoint terms below. Price from DeepInfra: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at a declared precision that is not 4-bit (fp8), at its standard rate. The maker’s own precision is not known. Every price dimension · USD per million tokens | Input | $1.00 /M | | --- | --- | | Output | $1.00 /M | | Cached input | Unknown /M | | Cache write | Unknown /M | | Cache write 1h | Unknown /M | | Reasoning | Unknown /M | ### Who sells it The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs. 1 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test. | Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Seller DeepInfra deepinfra/fp8 Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 131,072 tokens Output limit 16,384 tokens Tools Not listed by endpoint Reasoning Not listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $1.00 | Output $1.00 | Precision fp8 | Uptime (1d) 100.00% | ### Independent scores No independent benchmark has measured this model. Unrated is not a score of zero. ### Capability | Context window | 131K | | --- | --- | | Max output | 16K | | Input modes | text | | Tool use | no | | Reasoning | no | | Knowledge cutoff | 2023-12-31 | | Open weights | Unknown | ### Provenance | Price source | [openrouter.ai](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) | | --- | --- | | Fetched | 2026-10-06 | | Quality data | unrated | 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... ## Questions this page answers What does Hermes 3 405B Instruct cost? $1.00/M in, $1.00/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription. Does Hermes 3 405B Instruct have an independent quality score? Hermes 3 405B Instruct has no independent quality score in this catalogue. Unrated is not a score of zero. What beats Hermes 3 405B Instruct? Hermes 3 405B Instruct has no independent quality score. Unrated is not a score of zero. Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Hermes 3 405B Instruct? No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated. Does a missing score mean Hermes 3 405B Instruct scored zero? Unrated is not a score of zero. MODEL MONUMENT ## Save or share this proof Download proof card · 1200 × 630 Preview and more sharing options Nous: Hermes 3 405B Instruct. Balanced workload. Not independently rated. Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026. Copy model link Download square card · 1080 × 1080 Copy landscape image Share landscape card ## Related No independent quality score, so there is no dominator to name. 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