Hermes-4-405B vs GPT-4o (2024-05-13)

API pricing, benchmark indices and specs — updated 19 October 2026.

NousResearch · A · Open weights
Params
405.9 B
Context
131,072
30d
1 K
llama3 licence · conditional
openai · B · API-only
Input / 1M
$5.00
Output / 1M
$15.00
AA index
7.3
proprietary · 128K context

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Hermes-4-405B GPT-4o (2024-05-13)
Deployment Open weights · also via API API-only (closed weights)
Parameters 405.9 B n/a — API-only
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM n/a — API-only
Context length 131,072 128,000
Licence llama3 Proprietary
Commercial use Conditional Per API terms
Languages 1 n/a — API-only
Downloads 30d 1,216 n/a — API-only
Downloads all time 8 K n/a — API-only
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS n/a — API-only
Gated No n/a — API-only
First seen on the Hub 2025-08-06 n/a — API-only
API input price / 1M tokens $1.00 $5.00
API output price / 1M tokens $3.00 $15.00
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $4.00 $20.00
Cached input / 1M tokens — —
AA Intelligence Index 7.5 7.3
AA Coding Index — 24.2
AA Agentic Index — —
Max output tokens 117,964 4,096
API providers 1 2
Tool calling No Yes
Reasoning mode Yes No

API cost

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

Hermes-4-405B $4.00
GPT-4o (2024-05-13) $20.00

Hermes-4-405B is 5.0× cheaper at list price.

VRAM side by side

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

Hermes-4-405B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 1,867.4 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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