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Hermes 3 70B
Hermes 3 70B is Nous Research's flagship instruction-following model, fine-tuned for advanced reasoning, creative writing, and complex task completion.
Updated Aug 12, 2026. Default version: Hermes 3 70B
LLMBoard score8.0Hermes 3 70B
Coverage80%16 benchmark families
Context window131.1KTokens
Official input priceN/AOfficial price unavailable
Hermes 3 70B Specifications
Technical details for the model's default version.
- Version
- Hermes 3 70B
- Released
- Aug 15, 2024
- Knowledge cutoff
- Unknown
- Parameters
- 70B
- Context window
- 131.1K
- Max output
- 16.4K
- Inputs
- text
- Outputs
- text
- Open weights
- No
- License
- Apache 2.0
Hermes 3 70B Capability Profile
This profile uses the model's current scored version. Arena ratings and prices are shown separately.
Hermes 3 70B Benchmark Results
Benchmark scores for Hermes 3 70B.
| BoolQ | 0.9 | 1 | 10 | 100.0% | C | |
| MuSR | 0.5 | 2 | 2 | 0.0% | C | |
| PIQA | 0.8 | 2 | 11 | 90.0% | C | |
| ARC-E | 0.8 | 3 | 8 | 71.4% | C | |
| IFBench | 0.8 | 3 | 29 | 92.9% | C | |
| AGIEval | 0.6 | 4 | 10 | 66.7% | C | |
| MT-Bench | 9.0 | 4 | 12 | 72.7% | C | |
| OpenBookQA | 0.5 | 5 | 5 | 0.0% | C | |
| TruthfulQA | 0.6 | 6 | 18 | 70.6% | C | |
| HellaSwag | 0.9 | 7 | 27 | 76.9% | C | |
| Winogrande | 0.8 | 7 | 22 | 71.4% | C | |
| BBH | 0.7 | 11 | 12 | 9.1% | C | |
| ARC-C | 0.7 | 27 | 34 | 21.2% | C | |
| MMLU | 0.8 | 66 | 100 | 34.3% | C | |
| MATH | 0.2 | 70 | 71 | 1.4% | C | |
| MMLU-Pro | 0.5 | 118 | 129 | 8.6% | C | |
| GPQA | 0.7 | 145 | 234 | 38.2% | C |
Hermes 3 70B Arena Results
Preference and agent-evaluation results for the default version.
No Arena results
The default version does not have a matching Arena result yet.
Hermes 3 70B Pricing
Official vendor API pricing appears first, followed by individual provider offers.
- Official API
- N/A
- Official provider
- N/A
- Lowest third-party
- From $0.408 input, $0.408 output per 1M via NanoGPT
- Tracked offerings
- 1
| NanoGPT | NousResearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-70b | global | $0.408 | $0.408 | 65.5K |
Official prices use only the vendor's configured official Provider and positive standard USD PAYG rates. Third-party offers remain explicitly labeled.
Hermes 3 70B Versions
Available versions of this model. The score column identifies the version used in the overall ranking.
| Hermes 3 70B | 8.0 | 70B | 131.1K | 16.4K | No | Apache 2.0 |
What is Hermes 3 70B?
Key information about Hermes 3 70B and its available data.
Hermes 3 70B is Nous Research's flagship instruction-following model, fine-tuned for advanced reasoning, creative writing, and complex task completion. It features exceptional instruction adherence and strong performance across multiple domains.
Data as of 2026-08-11.
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FAQ
Common questions about Hermes 3 70B.
When was Hermes 3 70B released?
Hermes 3 70B's default version was released on Aug 15, 2024.
How much does Hermes 3 70B cost?
No official standard PAYG price is currently available for Hermes 3 70B. The lowest tracked third-party offer starts at $0.408 input and $0.408 output via NanoGPT.
Who created Hermes 3 70B?
Hermes 3 70B was created by Nous Research.
What is the context window for Hermes 3 70B?
The default version has a 131.1K token context window.
Is Hermes 3 70B open weight?
No. The default version is not marked as having publicly available weights.
How many API providers offer Hermes 3 70B?
1 provider offerings are linked to the default version.
What models should I compare Hermes 3 70B with?
Nearby ranked alternatives include Mistral Small 3.1 24B, Qwen2.5 14B, GPT-4o-mini.