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Benchmarks & performance
Independent benchmark scores for Hermes 3 70B Instruct, measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better.
About this model
Hermes 3 70B Instruct is an open-weight AI model by Nous Research. You can download and self-host it for free; the prices below are hosted-API list prices, tracked hourly, for when you prefer convenience over self-hosting.
Frequently asked questions
What is Hermes 3 70B Instruct?
Hermes 3 70B Instruct is an AI language model from Nous Research. It is open-weight: you can download it and run it on your own hardware, for free. It scores 5.1 on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index.
Is Hermes 3 70B Instruct free?
The weights are free and open — you can self-host Hermes 3 70B Instruct and pay nothing per token. If you prefer a hosted API, list prices are $0.7 per million input tokens and $0.7 per million output tokens.
What is Hermes 3 70B Instruct good at?
Independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis give it GPQA 40.1%, MMLU-Pro 57.1%, Humanity's Last Exam 4.1%, LiveCodeBench 18.8%, SciCode 23.1%, MATH-500 53.8%, AIME 2.3%.
Can I self-host Hermes 3 70B Instruct?
Yes. Hermes 3 70B Instruct has open weights, so you can download it and run it on your own GPU or server with tools like Ollama, vLLM or llama.cpp — with no per-token cost.
Open-source alternatives
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