Nous: Hermes 3 405B Instruct (free)

NOUSRESEARCH Developer Architecture Profile

Intelligence (ELO)1484Chatbot Arena Verified

Max Context131,072Tokens

API Cost / 1MFREEBlended Prompt + Completion

Model Capabilities

Coding & Logic
Roleplay
Fictional
Classification
Conversational

Hermes 3 is a generalist language model with many improvements over Hermes 2, including advanced agentic capabilities, much better roleplaying, reasoning, multi-turn conversation, long context coherence, and improvements across the...

Granular Pricing Matrix

Input Tokens (Prompt)Free / 1M

Output Tokens (Completion)Free / 1M

Pricing data via OpenRouter. Sync: 4/30/2026

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