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Hermes 4 405B: price, performance and context
Open Hermes 4 405B by Nousresearch costs $1.00 per 1M input and $3.00 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 131.1K tokens in one request (≈ 390 pages of text) and scores 7.5 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 182 of 212.
Privacy: zero data retention with one provider, not in the EU. Availability over the last 24 h: 100%.
Open in the interactive comparisonKey facts
- Licence
- Open weights: free to download and self-host
- Input / 1M tokens
- $1.00
- Output / 1M tokens
- $3.00
- Context window
- 131.1K tokens
- Max. output
- 118K tokens
- Performance index
- 7.5 points · rank 182 of 212
- Coding index
- n/a
- Agentic index
- n/a
- Cost at your usage
- $1.75 / month
- Knowledge cutoff
- Aug 2024
- In the catalog since
- Aug 26, 2025
- Capabilities
- Reasoning
What do you get for $10.00?
Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.
| Task | Cost per task | For $10.00 |
|---|---|---|
| Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer | $0.002 | 5,600 |
| Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out | $0.001 | 6,900 |
| Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary | $0.005 | 2,100 |
| Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code | $0.009 | 1,200 |
| Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go | $0.106 | 94 |
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