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Hermes 3 70B
Hermes 3 is a generalist language model with many improvements over Hermes 2, including advanced agentic capabilities, better roleplaying, reasoning, multi-turn conversation, and long context coherence. This 70B model is a competitive finetune of Llama-3.1-70B focused on aligning LLMs to the user with powerful steering capabilities.
- Tools
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.41
- Output
- $0.41
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 65.5K
- Max output
- 8.2K
- Average output (7 days)
- 177 tokens
- Longer than 18% of 468 models
Side by side
Hermes 3 70B compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Hermes 3 70BnousresearchThis model | Ministral 14BMistralRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | nousresearch | Mistral |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Open weights |
| Added | Jan 7, 2026 | Dec 4, 2025 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 65.54K | 262.14KBest |
| Max output | 8.19K | 32.77KBest |
| Average output | 177 tokens | 176 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.41 | $0.20Best |
| Output | $0.41 | $0.20Best |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 32.5 tok/s | — |
| Time to first token | 1.9 s | — |
| Request success (24h) | 100.0% | — |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 6.0 | 6.0 |
| Coding Index | — | 14.4 |
| Math Index | — | 30.0 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Tools | Yes | No |
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Hermes 3 70B
- Ministral 14B
Intelligence Index
- Hermes 3 70B6.0
- Ministral 14B6.0
Hermes 3 70B: Better than 3% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- Hermes 3 70B: —
- Ministral 14B: 14.4
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- Hermes 3 70B: —
- Ministral 14B: 30.0
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Hermes 3 70B: —
- Ministral 14B: 0.6%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Hermes 3 70B: —
- Ministral 14B: 0.2%
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Hermes 3 70B: —
- Ministral 14B: 131 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Hermes 3 70B: —
- Ministral 14B: 247 Elo
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Hermes 3 70B: —
- Ministral 14B: 1.2%
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Hermes 3 70B: —
- Ministral 14B: 26.3%
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- Hermes 3 70B: —
- Ministral 14B: 2.2%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Hermes 3 70B: 4.0%
- Ministral 14B: 4.6%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Hermes 3 70B: 40.1%
- Ministral 14B: 57.2%Top
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Hermes 3 70B: 57.1%
- Ministral 14B: 69.3%Top
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Hermes 3 70B: —
- Ministral 14B: 32.0%
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Hermes 3 70B: —
- Ministral 14B: 0.0%
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Hermes 3 70B: —
- Ministral 14B: 23.8%
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- Hermes 3 70B: 18.8%
- Ministral 14B: 35.1%Top
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- Hermes 3 70B: —
- Ministral 14B: 30.0%
AIME
Competition mathematics
- Hermes 3 70B: 2.3%
- Ministral 14B: —
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- Hermes 3 70B: 53.8%
- Ministral 14B: —
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Hermes 3 70B: —
- Ministral 14B: 4.5%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Hermes 3 70B: —
- Ministral 14B: 27.2%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Hermes 3 70B: —
- Ministral 14B: 26.3%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Throughput
- 32.5 tok/s
- Faster than 22% of 263 models
- Time to first token
- 1.9 s
- Quicker than 84% of 263 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 0.0%
- Request success (24h)
- 100.0%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "nousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-70b",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="nousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-70b",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)nousresearch
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