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# Nous: Hermes 3 405B Instruct — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Nous: Hermes 3 405B Instruct: $1.00/M in, $1.00/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Hermes 3 405B Instruct

Nous Research · released 2024-08-16

 $1.00 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## No independent quality score.

No benchmark we track has measured this model. That is not the same as measuring it and finding it wanting — we simply cannot rank it, so we do not.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $1.00 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $1.00 /M |

### Independent scores

No independent benchmark has measured this model.

### Capability

| Context window | 131K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 16K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | no |
| Reasoning | no |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2023-12-31 |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| 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...