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Hermes 3 405B Instruct

Nous Research · released August 2024

Hermes 3 405B Instruct is a Nous Research model with a 131K token context window — about 190 pages of text. It reads Text and replies in Text.

$1.15

input / 1M tokens

$1.15

output / 1M tokens

131K

context — about 190 pages

0.67¢

a client proposal

Pricing

Input
$1.15 per million tokens
Output
$1.15 per million tokens

Billed from your Alyph wallet. Prices can change when the provider changes theirs — last checked August 9, 2026.

The numbers

Provider
Nous Research
Released
August 2024 (2024-08-16)
Context window
131K tokens — about 190 pages
Max output
16K tokens per reply
Input
Text
Output
Text
Reasoning
Answers directly
Knowledge cutoff
2023-12-31

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Questions, answered

How much does Hermes 3 405B Instruct cost on Alyph?

Hermes 3 405B Instruct costs $1.15 per million input tokens and $1.15 per million output tokens on Alyph. A typical task — 5K tokens in, 800 out — works out to about 0.67¢. Billed from your Alyph wallet, with hard spending limits. Prices can change when the provider changes theirs; this page was last checked on August 9, 2026.

What is Hermes 3 405B Instruct's context window?

131K tokens — about 190 pages. Replies can be up to 16K tokens long.

Can Hermes 3 405B Instruct read images and files?

Hermes 3 405B Instruct is text-only. The canvas still serializes uploads into plain text, so you can work with files — but it cannot see images.

Does Hermes 3 405B Instruct show its reasoning?

No — Hermes 3 405B Instruct answers directly, without a visible thinking pass.

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