Hermes 3 405B Instruct API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: February 7, 2026 at 08:06 AM

Overview

Hermes 3 405B Instruct was released on August 16, 2024. Pricing starts at $1.00 per million input tokens and $1.00 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 131K tokens. API access is available through Nousresearch.

Context Window

131K

tokens

Pricing

Input$1.00

Output$1.00

per 1M tokens

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Pricing Comparison

Compare Hermes 3 405B Instruct with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider	Model	Input $/M	Output $/M	Coding	MMLU	GPQA	Context	Actions
NO Nousresearch	Hermes 3 405B Instruct	$1.000	$1.000	—	—	—	131,072	Try in Playground
R Relace	Relace Apply 3	$0.850	$1.250	—	—	—	256,000	Try in Playground
SW Switchpoint	Switchpoint Router	$0.850	$3.400	—	—	—	131,072	Try in Playground
MO Morph	Morph V3 Large	$0.900	$1.900	—	—	—	262,144	Try in Playground
AR Arcee AI	Maestro Reasoning	$0.900	$3.300	—	—	—	131,072	Try in Playground
NS Neversleep	Noromaid 20B	$1.000	$1.750	—	—	—	4,096	Try in Playground
R Relace	Relace Search	$1.000	$3.000	—	—	—	256,000	Try in Playground
A Anthropic	Claude Haiku 4.5	$1.000	$5.000	51.1	80.0	64.6	200,000	Try in Playground
NO Nousresearch	Hermes 4 405B	$1.000	$3.000	54.6	72.9	53.6	131,072	Try in Playground
P Perplexity	Sonar	$1.000	$1.000	29.5	68.9	47.1	127,072	Try in Playground
QW Qwen	Qwen3 Coder Plus	$1.000	$5.000	—	—	—	128,000	Try in Playground

* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

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Hermes 3 405B Instruct is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

Providers

$1.000

Cheapest Input/M

$1.000

Cheapest Output/M

DeepInfra

Best Price

Provider Pricing

1 models

Provider	Input $/M	Output $/M	Uptime
D DeepInfra Best Price	$1.000	$1.000	100.0%

Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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