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Hermes 3 is a generalist language model with many improvements over [Hermes 2](/models/nousresearch/nous-hermes-2-mistral-7b-dpo), including advanced agentic capabilities, much better roleplaying, reasoning, multi-turn conversation, long context coherence, and improvements across the...
How much does Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct cost for a real workload?
At 10M input + 2M output tokens per month, Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct costs about $8.4 ($7 input + $1.4 output). Try your own volumes in the cost calculator.
What are cheaper alternatives to Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct?
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Frequently asked questions
How much does Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct cost?
Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct costs $0.7 per 1M input tokens and $0.7 per 1M output tokens (list price, snapshot October 21, 2026). At 10M input + 2M output tokens per month that is about $8.4.
What is the context window of Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct?
Nous: Hermes 3 70B 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 70B Instruct?
Cheaper models include Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B ($0.04 in / $1.35 out), TheDrummer: Skyfall 36B V2 ($0.55 in / $0.8 out), StepFun: Step 3.7 Flash ($0.2 in / $1.15 out). See the full list on this page.
Is Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct free to use?
No. Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct is a paid model at $0.7 input / $0.7 output per 1M tokens. 20 free models are listed on the free models page.
Provider: nousresearch · Model ID: nousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-70b · Modality: text->text · Price snapshot October 21, 2026, refreshed daily. How we collect prices