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Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-70B

Hermes 3 is the latest version of our flagship Hermes series of LLMs by Nous Research.

Params
70.6 B
Context
131,072
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Likes
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Commercial use: conditional · llama3 Not gated SAFETENSORS 1 languages View on Hugging Face ↗

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Can you run it?

Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.

FileQuantSizeEst. VRAMVerdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB
model.safetensors bf16 141.1 GB 166.3 GB ❌ Won’t fit
model.safetensors (bf16, full) bf16 + 128K ctx 141.1 GB 325.0 GB ❌ Won’t fit
Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.

Run it

copy-paste, exact tags checked against the Hub
~ · curl · api/v1
$ curl -s https://aimodelscomparison.com/api/v1/models/hermes-3-llama-3-1-70b
{
  "hf_id": "NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-70B",
  "params_b": 70.55,
  "context_length": 131072,
  "license": { "id": "llama3", "commercial": "conditional" },
  "downloads_30d": 2075,
  "vram_estimates": [
    { "quant": "bf16", "gb": 166.3 }
  ],
  "updated_at": "2026-10-19T06:01:33Z"
}
est. VRAM —on RTX 4090 · 24 GBJSON API →

Use via API

via OpenRouter · USD per 1M tokens · synced 2026-10-24
$0.70
input / 1M
$0.70
output / 1M
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cached input / 1M
$1.40
1M in + 1M out
Context window
131,072 tokens
Max output
16,384 tokens
Providers
1
Cheapest provider
DeepInfra · $0.70 / $0.70
Best throughput
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AA Intelligence / Coding / Agentic
6.7 / — / —
✗ Tool calling ✗ Reasoning ✓ Structured outputs ✗ Image input ✗ File input ✗ Audio input ✗ Prompt caching

Specifications

Architecture
LlamaForCausalLM
Parameters
70.6 B
Tensor type
BF16
Context length
131,072
Vocabulary
128,256
Layers / heads
80 / 64
Licence
llama3
First seen on the Hub
2024-07-29
Training datasets
undisclosed
Added to our catalog
2026-10-20
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