Models/Nous Research/Hermes 3 70B Instruct

Hermes 3 70B Instruct

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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Identity

131,072Context in
16,384Context out
2024-08-18 (OpenRouter created 1723939200)Released
OpenWeights
Canonical name
Hermes 3 70B Instruct
Aliases
nousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-70b, NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-70B
Continuum hosted id
Not listed as a Continuum hosted id
OpenRouter slug
nousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-70b
Hugging Face
NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-70B
Modalities
text
Open weights Not on Continuum host list Open

Context window on the 2026-08-19 OpenRouter row: 131,072 tokens.

Max completion tokens on that row: 16,384.

Input / output on that row: $0.70 / $0.70 per 1M tokens.

Architecture fields: text->text · Llama3 · chatml.

Hugging Face id on that row: NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-70B.

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Should I use this for coding agents

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 c

When you want the 2024-08-18 catalog SKU, not a later rename.

DeepSWE

No official DeepSWE mini-swe-agent row for this identity on the public board we fetched.

omitted, not invented as of 2026-08-13 source
Artificial Analysispublished integer
5
bench
Artificial Analysis
version
Intelligence Index
harness
published integer
metric
Intelligence Index
value
5
independent as of 2026-08-19 source
Vals Index

We did not open a vals.ai card for this identity. Chip omitted.

omitted, not invented as of 2026-08-19 source

Ranked view: Best coding models: the independent leaderboard puts this row and every other card that carries an independent coding score on one board, with the confidence intervals left visible.

Named benches, printed only

Copied from AA or vals HTML we opened. 0.0% placeholder bars are omitted. Do not average these into the hero tiles, and do not invent CI, $/task, or steps for Artificial Analysis.

BenchPrintedNoteSourceURLAs of
SciCode 23.1% Printed on the AA Intelligence Evaluations grid for Hermes 3 - Llama-3.1 70B. Not a DeepSWE chip. Artificial Analysis Hermes 3 - Llama-3.1 70B source 2026-08-19
Humanity's Last Exam 4% Printed on the AA Intelligence Evaluations grid for Hermes 3 - Llama-3.1 70B. Not a DeepSWE chip. Artificial Analysis Hermes 3 - Llama-3.1 70B source 2026-08-19
GPQA Diamond 40.1% Printed on the AA Intelligence Evaluations grid for Hermes 3 - Llama-3.1 70B. Not a DeepSWE chip. Artificial Analysis Hermes 3 - Llama-3.1 70B source 2026-08-19
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When not to use it

Trust this before you buy

  • When you need a Continuum-hosted SKU from this lab, use the hosted card on this hub instead of this catalog row.
  • $0.70 in / $0.70 out per 1M on the 2026-08-19 OpenRouter row. Context 131,072 in / 16,384 out.
  • Need a denser published sibling on this hub? Hermes 4 is the card already on the cluster.

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Artifact and Hugging Face downloads

Artifact

SPDX / license
llama3
Total params
HF safetensors.total: 70,553,706,496 stored tensors
Native precision
HF tensors BF16
Repo size
HF API usedStorage 141,107,497,872 bytes
HF created
2024-07-29T14:27:57.000Z
Official HF repo
NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-70B
HF downloads
7,910
HF likes
134

Official weights id on the 2026-08-19 OpenRouter row: NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-70B. Community GGUF is a quant, not a second Continuum card.

Official weights

This is the model repo, not Download for Mac. Downloads and likes from the Hugging Face API on 2026-08-19.

Hub file tree

Safetensor shards
30
Shard bytes
141,107,497,872 bytes
Other file bytes
9,215,555 bytes
Tree file count
38
Hub usedStorage
141,107,497,872 bytes

usedStorage and the sum of .safetensors sizes can differ (LFS pointers, non-shard files, duplicate copies). Cited separately. Source: recursive tree API, 2026-08-19.

PathBytes
model-00001-of-00030.safetensors4,584,408,808
model-00002-of-00030.safetensors4,664,167,376
model-00003-of-00030.safetensors4,999,711,704
model-00004-of-00030.safetensors4,966,157,032
model-00005-of-00030.safetensors4,664,134,408
model-00006-of-00030.safetensors4,664,167,408
model-00007-of-00030.safetensors4,664,167,408
model-00008-of-00030.safetensors4,999,711,728
model-00009-of-00030.safetensors4,966,157,056
model-00010-of-00030.safetensors4,664,134,408
model-00011-of-00030.safetensors4,664,167,408
model-00012-of-00030.safetensors4,664,167,408
model-00013-of-00030.safetensors4,999,711,728
model-00014-of-00030.safetensors4,966,157,056
model-00015-of-00030.safetensors4,664,134,408
model-00016-of-00030.safetensors4,664,167,408
model-00017-of-00030.safetensors4,664,167,408
model-00018-of-00030.safetensors4,999,711,728
model-00019-of-00030.safetensors4,966,157,056
model-00020-of-00030.safetensors4,664,134,408
model-00021-of-00030.safetensors4,664,167,408
model-00022-of-00030.safetensors4,664,167,408
model-00023-of-00030.safetensors4,999,711,728
model-00024-of-00030.safetensors4,966,157,056
model-00025-of-00030.safetensors4,664,134,408
model-00026-of-00030.safetensors4,664,167,408
model-00027-of-00030.safetensors4,664,167,408
model-00028-of-00030.safetensors4,999,711,728
model-00029-of-00030.safetensors4,966,173,536
model-00030-of-00030.safetensors2,101,346,432
tokenizer.json9,085,140
model.safetensors.index.json59,615
tokenizer_config.json55,808
README.md11,934
.gitattributes1,519
config.json910
special_tokens_map.json444
generation_config.json185

All 38 files the tree API returned are listed: every one of the 30 safetensor shards plus 8 other files. Files tab: https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-70B/tree/main.

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Continuum serving

OpenRouter slug nousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-70b on the 2026-08-19 catalog.

First party: https://nousresearch.com/.

Not on the Continuum host list fetched 2026-08-19.

Continuum hosted id not on the host list

We list first-party and OpenRouter, plus Continuum only when the live public allowlist named the id. This is not a 15-host routing table.

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Economics

OpenRouter 2026-08-19: $0.70 in / $0.70 out per 1M tokens. Context 131,072 in / 16,384 out.

No separate internal-reasoning price on that row.

Price this model Opens the pricing calculator preloaded with Hermes 3 70B Instruct.
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Provenance

ClaimSourceAs of
OpenRouter id nousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-70b; context 131072; created 1723939200; $0.70 / $0.70 per 1MOpenRouter /api/v1/models2026-08-19
AA Intelligence Index 5; 3 printed Index benchesArtificial Analysis model page2026-08-19
OpenRouter id nousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-70b, context 131,072OpenRouter /api/v1/models2026-08-19
HF downloads 7,910Hugging Face API NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-70B2026-08-19
HF safetensors.total: 70,553,706,496 stored tensors; HF API usedStorage 141,107,497,872 bytes; created 2024-07-29T14:27:57.000Z; HF tensors BF16Hugging Face API NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-70B2026-08-19
30 safetensor shards; shard bytes 141,107,497,872; tree files 38Hugging Face tree API NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-70B2026-08-19
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Compare, FAQ, and Get Plus

No other card in this cluster shares a published DeepSWE official row we can put next to this one. We will not compare on vendor-blog numbers.

Continue through Nous Research's model family with Hermes 3 405B Instruct.

FAQ

Why does the lab blog disagree with DeepSWE or Scale?

Lab posts pick a harness, an effort, a split, and sometimes a private eval set. DeepSWE publishes the official mini-swe-agent row with cost, tokens, and steps. Scale SWE-bench Pro only counts when the public shared-harness board has a row we can fetch. A higher lab number is usually a different test, not a better one.

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