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Nous Research · Hermes 4

Hermes 4 405B

Open weightsGenerally availableMETA LLAMA 3 COMMUNITY LICENSE AGREEMENT

Nous Research's open-weights hybrid reasoning fine-tune of Llama 3.1 405B.

AA Intelligence
7.5#119 of 142
Input / output per 1M
$1.00/ $3.00
Output speed
42tok/s
Context window
128K tokens

Composite indexes

  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index#119 of 142
    8independentIntelligence Index v4.3; reasoning; estimatedArtificial Analysis: Hermes 4 - Llama-3.1 405B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 58

Coding

  • LiveCodeBench#28 of 56
    68.6%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Hermes 4 - Llama-3.1 405B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Fugu at 92.9%

Agents and tool use

  • τ²-Bench#64 of 88
    22.2%independenttelecom; reasoningArtificial Analysis: Hermes 4 - Llama-3.1 405B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: GLM-5.2 at 99.1%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • GPQA Diamond#96 of 142
    72.7%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Hermes 4 - Llama-3.1 405B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 96.1%

  • Humanity’s Last Exam#98 of 147
    10.9%independentno tools; reasoningArtificial Analysis: Hermes 4 - Llama-3.1 405B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 61.4%

  • CritPt#89 of 139
    0.3%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Hermes 4 - Llama-3.1 405B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: GPT-5.6 Sol at 32.3%

Vision and long context

  • AA Long Context Reasoning#112 of 139
    22.3%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Hermes 4 - Llama-3.1 405B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 88.7%

Other published results

ResultScoreReported bySource
aime-2025 · AIME 2025; reasoning69.7%independentArtificial Analysis: Hermes 4 - Llama-3.1 405B (Reasoning) ↗
Terminal-Bench Hard (AA) · reasoning11.4%independentArtificial Analysis: Hermes 4 - Llama-3.1 405B (Reasoning) ↗
IFBench · reasoning32.7%independentArtificial Analysis: Hermes 4 - Llama-3.1 405B (Reasoning) ↗
AA-Omniscience Index · reasoning-36 indexindependentArtificial Analysis: Hermes 4 - Llama-3.1 405B (Reasoning) ↗

Specs

Released
August 27, 2025
Parameters
406B
Size class
100 to 500B
Input
text
Output
text
Context
128K tokens
Max output
Not published
Blended 70/30
$1.60 / 1M
First token
2.36s
  • Price: Artificial Analysis: Hermes 4 - Llama-3.1 405B (Reasoning) ↗ No first-party API found; Artificial Analysis median across third-party providers.
  • Speed: Artificial Analysis leaderboard (Hermes 4 - Llama-3.1 405B (Reasoning), median across providers or first-party as shown) ↗

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