Model index · Text · text generation · standard · open weights · Nous · released 2024-08-18

Hermes 3 70B Instruct pricing

Served by 3 providers from $0.7000 to $0.7000 per 1M tokens on the standard tier.

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...

Nous · 70.55B parameters · llama3 · first published 2024-08-18 · Text model · text generation · 131k context · description as published by the source, not written by us

Open weights: NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-70B · 70.55B parameters counted from the weight files · licence llama3 · 0.0M downloads in the last 30 days . Parameter count and licence come from the public weights registry, not from a seller — and the download figure exists only for models published this way, so it is not a market-wide popularity measure.

$0.7000

Cheapest standard /1M — DeepInfra

131k

Native context window

5

Providers serving it

Quality not measured yet

Quality not measured yet

We measure models on request rather than pre-scoring the whole catalog, so this one has no score yet. Absence of a score is not a low score.

Every provider and service tier

Standard on-demand rows first, cheapest of each group first. Tiers are not interchangeable — see the note below the table.

Provider In /1M Out /1M Blended /1M Tier Region Source
DeepInfra cheapest standard $0.7000 $0.7000 $0.7000 standard third_party
OpenRouter (default route) *
resells other hosts
$0.7000 $0.7000 $0.7000 standard provider_api
DeepInfra $0.7000 $0.7000 $0.7000 standard provider_api
DeepInfra $0.5600 $0.5600 $0.5600 flex provider_api
DeepInfra $1.05 $1.05 $1.05 priority provider_api

Not every row is the same product

This table mixes service tiers, and they are not interchangeable. Rows marked standard are ordinary on-demand requests. The others trade delivery for price:

  • flex — queued at lower priority, so latency is higher and requests can be deferred under load
  • priority — reserved capacity for tighter, more predictable latency

Every comparison elsewhere on this site uses the standard tier, so a model is never shown at a queued rate beside another model's on-demand rate.

Cheaper if your workload can wait: flex at $0.5600 per 1M on DeepInfra — 20% below standard , queued at lower priority, so latency is higher and requests can be deferred under load.

* OpenRouter chooses a host for each request, and the figure above is what its default choice costs — not a fixed rate for this model. Selecting a specific host through the same account costs whatever that host charges, which is why this row can sit above or below the hosts listed beside it. Token rates are passed through from the underlying provider with no markup, so the per-1M price above is what that host charges directly — OpenRouter's own charge sits on funding instead: 5.5% (min $0.80) by Stripe or 5% by Coinbase to buy credits, 5% of the equivalent spend if you bring your own provider key. So budget about 5% above the rate shown unless you already hold credit. Fee schedule.

Compare Hermes 3 70B Instruct with alternatives

One model per vendor, ordered by how prominent the vendor is and how many independent providers serve the model — hosts only carry what customers ask for, so that is a real demand signal. This is not traffic or popularity data, which we do not have. Every alternative below does the same job — text generation — because a price comparison between a generator and, say, an upscaler is arithmetic rather than advice. Prices on both sides are standard on-demand rates, so the comparison is like for like — a discounted batch or flex rate is never shown against another model’s standard rate.

AlternativeVendor $/1M vs Hermes 3 70B Instruct QualityKindContextHosts
Llama 4 Maverick Meta $0.3240
DigitalOcean
54% cheaper 80/100 standard 1.05M 5
WizardLM-2 8x22B Microsoft $0.4800
DeepInfra
31% cheaper 100/100 standard 66k 3
Kimi K2 0905 MoonshotAI $1.00
OpenRouter (default route)
43% dearer not measured standard 262k 3
Nova Pro 1.0 Amazon $1.40
OpenRouter (default route)
100% dearer not measured standard 300k 2
Command R (08-2024) Cohere $0.2625
Cohere
63% cheaper not measured standard 128k 1
Gemma 3 27B Google $0.1000
DeepInfra
86% cheaper not measured standard
open weights
262k 9
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct Alibaba $0.3700
DeepInfra
47% cheaper not measured standard
open weights
33k 5
Llama 3 8B Lunaris Sao10K $0.0425
OpenRouter (default route)
94% cheaper not measured standard 8k 3

Prices are the cheapest host for each model, blended at a 3:1 input:output ratio. "Quality" is our own probe suite where we have run it — see what it measures. A cheaper alternative is only a real saving if it also passes on the capability your workload needs.

6 of these alternatives cost less than Hermes 3 70B Instruct — the cheapest being Llama 3 8B Lunaris at $0.0425 per 1M tokens blended (94% cheaper).

Cheaper is not automatically better: check the quality column, and confirm the context window and capabilities your workload depends on before switching.

Before you switch

Identical weights do not guarantee identical output. Check that the cheaper host serves the model at full precision rather than a quantised copy, that its context window matches what you need, and that its rate limits carry your peak traffic. A cheaper host that cannot take your throughput is not cheaper — it is an outage.

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Frequently asked

How much does Hermes 3 70B Instruct cost?

The cheapest standard-tier provider is DeepInfra at $0.7000 per 1M tokens blended (3:1 input:output). A flex tier is available at $0.5600, 20% less, if the work can be queued. Prices change often; verify with the provider before budgeting.

Which provider is best for Hermes 3 70B Instruct?

Cheapest is not automatically best. Compare quantisation (a lossy copy of the weights changes output), the context window each host actually serves, and rate limits. Where a provider serves less context than the model's native window we flag it in the table above.

Can I switch providers for Hermes 3 70B Instruct without changing code?

Yes, if you route through an abstraction. VernaOne exposes one API across every provider listed here, so switching host is a config change and you keep automatic fallback if the new one degrades.

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