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Hermes 4 405B frontierruns locally

nous/hermes-4-405b

Hermes 4 is a large-scale reasoning model built on Meta-Llama-3.1-405B and released by Nous Research. It introduces a hybrid reasoning mode, where the model can choose to deliberate internally with...

Input / 1M

$1.00

USD per million tokens

Output / 1M

$3.00

USD per million tokens

Est. cost / token

$0.0000015

$1.50 per 1M, 3:1 mix

Context window

131K

max output 118K

Major features

Open weightsCachingReasoningJSON schema

Task suitability (heuristic 1–5, not a benchmark)

  • coding5
  • reasoning5
  • math5
  • summarization5
  • extraction5
  • classification5
  • chat5
  • creative5
  • translation5
  • vision1
  • long context3
  • agentic3

Run it locally

Will it run on my machine? →
QuantizationQualityMemory needed (8K ctx)
Q2_Kpoor185 GB
Q3_K_Mfair214 GB
Q4_K_Mrecommendedgood267 GB
Q5_K_Mvery good309 GB
Q6_Kexcellent356 GB
Q8_0near-lossless459 GB
F16lossless859 GB

Estimates.

Price history

RecordedInputOutputCachedSource
2026-11-05 03:20$1.00$3.00$0.20openrouter

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Pricing (USD per 1M tokens)

Input
$1.00
Output
$3.00
Cached input
$0.20
Blended (3:1)
$1.50

Details

Company
Nous Research
Version
4
Family
Hermes
Released
2025-08-26
Parameters
405.9B
Max output
118K
Open weights
Yes
Inputs
text
Last synced
21 min ago