How much does Hermes 3 405B Instruct cost per million tokens?

Hermes 3 405B Instruct costs $1 per million input tokens and $1 per million output tokens at list price.

What is the context window of Hermes 3 405B Instruct?

Hermes 3 405B Instruct accepts up to 131,072 tokens of context and returns up to 16,384 output tokens.

How much do 1,000 chat messages cost with Hermes 3 405B Instruct?

About $1.50, assuming 1,000 input + 500 output tokens per message.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Hermes 3 405B Instruct?

In the same price range, OpenAI GPT-6 Luna Pro ($0.1 / $0.5), OpenAI GPT-6 Luna ($0.1 / $0.5), Qwen Qwen3.8 Omni Flash ($0.15 / $0.47) cost less per token. Quality differs: test on your own prompts.

Where can I buy Nous API credits for less?

Discount credit books resell OpenRouter usage below face value within their depth, OpenRouter adds a 5.5% card fee, and Nous sells its own credits at face value. The live table on this page ranks them for $100 of usage.

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Hermes 3 405B Instruct API pricing

Hermes 3 is a generalist language model with many improvements over Hermes 2, including advanced agentic capabilities, much better roleplaying, reasoning, multi-turn conversation, long context coherence, and improvements across the...

Mid-range ($1–5 per 1M)

Input: $1; per 1M tokens
Output: $1; per 1M tokens
Cached input: –; per 1M tokens
Context: 131K; 16K max output

List price from OpenRouter, which passes Nous's price through without markup. Refreshed hourly. Released August 16, 2024. Model id nousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-405b.

What Hermes 3 405B Instruct costs in practice

At list price, before any batch or caching discount.

1,000 chat messages

$1.50

1,000 input + 500 output tokens each

1,000 RAG questions

$8.50

8,000 input + 500 output tokens each

100 coding-agent steps

$3.20

30,000 input + 2,000 output tokens each, no caching

Hermes 3 405B Instruct price history

No price change since we started tracking on 2026-10-01. We record prices daily; changes will show here.

Hermes 3 405B Instruct price by host

One host serves this model through OpenRouter.

DeepInfra$1 in · $1 out · 131K ctx · 100.0% uptime 24h

Where to buy Nous credits for less

Hermes 3 405B Instruct costs the same per token everywhere it's sold through OpenRouter. What changes is the price of the credits. Live quotes for $100 of usage:

#	Where you buy	You payYou pay for $100.00 of usage	vs list price	Price source
1	OrbioCardCheapest right now Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee and card processing, both included in the quote.	$85.10 incl. $2.60 card processing	-14.9%	live quote
2	smaaartCard Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee on face value. Card processing and taxes shown at checkout.	$95.00 + card processing and tax at checkout (not in this number)	-5.0%	live quote
3	Direct from the labCard Prepaid credits at face value (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google…). Taxes may apply.	$100.00 no top-up fee	list price	face value
4	OpenRouterCrypto 5% on crypto purchases. No markup on model prices.	$105.00 fees included	+5.0%	published fee
5	OpenRouterCard 5.5% on card purchases, $0.80 minimum. No markup on model prices.	$105.50 fees included	+5.5%	published fee

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Hermes 3 405B Instruct cost calculator

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Model$1.00 in / $1.00 out per 1M tokens · list price, liveInput tokens / month (millions)Output tokens / month (millions)

Usage at list price$60.00/ month

Cheaper alternatives to Hermes 3 405B Instruct

Other labs' models in the same price range or the one below, cheaper per token.

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro	$0.1	$0.5	$0.2	1.1M
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna	$0.1	$0.5	$0.2	1.1M
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Omni Flash	$0.15	$0.47	$0.23	1M
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 FlashX	$0.37	$1.25	$0.59	1.0M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash	$0.03	$0.5	$0.147	1.0M
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash	$0.15	$0.47	$0.23	1M

Other Nous models

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
Hermes 3 70B Instruct	$0.7	$0.7	$0.7	131K
Hermes 4 405B	$1	$3	$1.50	131K

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