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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 | Phi 4 MultimodalmicrosoftRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | nousresearch | microsoft |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Open weights |
| Added | Jan 7, 2026 | Jul 26, 2025 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 65.54K | 128KBest |
| Max output | 8.19K | 16.38KBest |
| Average output | 177 tokens | — |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.41 | $0.07Best |
| Output | $0.41 | $0.11Best |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 32.5 tok/s | — |
| Time to first token | 1.9 s | — |
| Request success (24h) | 100.0% | — |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 6.0Best | 5.8 |
| 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
- Phi 4 Multimodal
Intelligence Index
- Hermes 3 70B6.0
- Phi 4 Multimodal5.8
Hermes 3 70B: Better than 3% of 326 scored models
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Hermes 3 70B: 4.0%
- Phi 4 Multimodal: 5.0%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Hermes 3 70B: 40.1%Top
- Phi 4 Multimodal: 31.5%
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Hermes 3 70B: 57.1%Top
- Phi 4 Multimodal: 48.5%
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- Hermes 3 70B: 18.8%Top
- Phi 4 Multimodal: 13.1%
Math
AIME
Competition mathematics
- Hermes 3 70B: 2.3%
- Phi 4 Multimodal: 9.3%Top
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- Hermes 3 70B: 53.8%
- Phi 4 Multimodal: 69.3%Top
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026.
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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