Hermes 3 70B Instruct
by Nous Research · nousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-70b · #151 cheapest of 325 paid models
Prices updated Jul 22, 2026, 2:52 AM UTC · refreshed hourly
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...
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Pricing
Input
$0.70
per 1M tokens
Output
$0.70
per 1M tokens
Blended (3:1)
$0.70
3 input : 1 output
Cache read
—
per 1M cached tokens
Cache write
—
per 1M tokens
Cache & batch economics
Effective prices for Hermes 3 70B Instruct (no cache-read rate published — hits billed as normal input).
| Cache hit rate | Effective blended $/1M | Example request* | vs no cache |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0% | $0.70 | $0.0721 | — |
| 50% | $0.70 | $0.0721 | −0% |
| 90% | $0.70 | $0.0721 | −0% |
*Example: 100K sticky context + 2K new input + 1K output. Batch discount is an approximate 50% off list rates (available for OpenAI / Anthropic / Google — not flagged for this creator). Confirm on the vendor’s pricing page.
What a request costs
| Workload | Input tokens | Output tokens | Cost / request | Cost / 1K requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat message | 500 | 300 | $0.00056 | $0.56 |
| Document summary | 8,000 | 1,000 | $0.0063 | $6.30 |
| Codebase question (RAG) | 30,000 | 2,000 | $0.0224 | $22.40 |
| Long-context analysis | 150,000 | 5,000 | $0.1085 | $108.50 |
Specs
Context window
131K
tokens
Max output
16K
tokens
Input modalities
text
Tokenizer
Llama3