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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...
How much does Nous: Hermes 3 405B Instruct cost for a real workload?
At 10M input + 2M output tokens per month, Nous: Hermes 3 405B Instruct costs about $12 ($10 input + $2 output). Try your own volumes in the cost calculator.
What are cheaper alternatives to Nous: Hermes 3 405B Instruct?
- OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini — $0.4 in / $1.6 out per 1M
- Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 — $0.26 in / $1.56 out per 1M
- Cohere: Command A+ — $0.3 in / $1.5 out per 1M
- Qwen: Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct — $0.8 in / $1 out per 1M
- DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 — $0.44 in / $1.32 out per 1M
- Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) — $0.25 in / $1.5 out per 1M
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Frequently asked questions
How much does Nous: Hermes 3 405B Instruct cost?
Nous: Hermes 3 405B Instruct costs $1 per 1M input tokens and $1 per 1M output tokens (list price, snapshot October 21, 2026). At 10M input + 2M output tokens per month that is about $12.
What is the context window of Nous: Hermes 3 405B Instruct?
Nous: Hermes 3 405B Instruct has a context window of 131,072 tokens and can return up to 16,384 output tokens per response.
What are cheaper alternatives to Nous: Hermes 3 405B Instruct?
Cheaper models include OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini ($0.4 in / $1.6 out), Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 ($0.26 in / $1.56 out), Cohere: Command A+ ($0.3 in / $1.5 out). See the full list on this page.
Is Nous: Hermes 3 405B Instruct free to use?
No. Nous: Hermes 3 405B Instruct is a paid model at $1 input / $1 output per 1M tokens. 20 free models are listed on the free models page.
Provider: nousresearch · Model ID: nousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-405b · Modality: text->text · Price snapshot October 21, 2026, refreshed daily. How we collect prices