R1 vs Hermes 3 405B Instruct

R1 at $0.805 in and $2.88 out and Hermes 3 405B Instruct at $1.15 in and $1.15 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

DeepSeek

0.63¢

for a client proposal

$0.805 in · $2.88 out / 1M

64K context · released January 2025

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Hermes 3 405B Instruct

Nous Research

0.67¢

for a client proposal

$1.15 in · $1.15 out / 1M

131K context · released August 2024

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 1.3¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: R1 at $0.805 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Hermes 3 405B Instruct at $1.15 per million tokens.
Largest context: Hermes 3 405B Instruct at 131K tokens — about 190 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

0.3¢

Hermes 3 405B Instruct

0.29¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

0.63¢

Hermes 3 405B Instruct

0.67¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

needs 155K ctx

Hermes 3 405B Instruct

needs 155K ctx

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

3.1¢

Hermes 3 405B Instruct

4.1¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

needs 250K ctx

Hermes 3 405B Instruct

needs 250K ctx

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

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Hermes 3 405B Instruct

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Pricing

Hermes 3 405B Instruct

Input / 1M tokens

$0.805

$1.15

Output / 1M tokens

$2.88

$1.15

Specs

Hermes 3 405B Instruct

Provider

DeepSeek

Nous Research

Released

January 2025

August 2024

Context window

64K

131K

Max output

16K

Input

Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Answers directly

Knowledge cutoff

2024-07-31

2023-12-31

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

DeepSeek

0.3¢

for this task

53% input · 47% output

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Hermes 3 405B Instruct

Nous Research

0.29¢

for this task

80% input · 20% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.59¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 844 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Hermes 3 405B Instruct has the largest context window here — 131K tokens.

On price, R1 is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.63¢.

If you want to watch the model think, R1 shows reasoning; the other answers directly.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

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Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, R1 or Hermes 3 405B Instruct?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): R1 at 0.63¢; Hermes 3 405B Instruct at 0.67¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Hermes 3 405B Instruct — 131K tokens, about 190 pages.

Can I run R1 and Hermes 3 405B Instruct side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 1.3¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 1.3¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.