DeepSeek-R1 vs Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-405B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.

deepseek-ai · A · Open weights
Params
684.5 B
Context
163,840
30d
1.5 M
mit · commercial OK
NousResearch · B · Open weights
Params
405.9 B
Context
131,072
30d
1 K
llama3 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-R1 Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-405B
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 684.5 B 405.9 B
Architecture DeepseekV3ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 163,840 131,072
Licence mit llama3
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 1,468,488 1,327
Downloads all time 50.4 M 958 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-01-20 2024-08-13
API input price / 1M tokens $0.70 $1.00
API output price / 1M tokens $2.50 $1.00
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $3.20 $2.00
Cached input / 1M tokens — —
AA Intelligence Index 11.4 —
AA Coding Index 24.6 —
AA Agentic Index 1.1 —
Max output tokens 16,000 16,384
API providers — 1
Tool calling Yes No
Reasoning mode Yes No

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

DeepSeek-R1 $3.20
Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-405B $2.00

Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-405B is 1.6× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)

9.9 M1 K
DeepSeek-R1 Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-405B

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-405B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 1,867.4 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
DeepSeek-R1 · fp16 @ 160K ctx 2,811.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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