Hermes 4 - Llama-3.1 405B (Reasoning)
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Editorial Analysis
Profile. Hermes 4 - Llama-3.1 405B (Reasoning) is a budget-tier option from Nous Research at $3.00/M output tokens. Despite the low price, it scores competitively on measurable benchmarks — making it a candidate for high-volume production workloads where unit cost dominates.
Latency. On latency, Hermes 4 - Llama-3.1 405B (Reasoning) reports 43 tok/s output speed and 2490ms time-to-first-token. Output speed is on the slower end; for real-time chat consider pairing with a streaming front-end or routing latency-sensitive requests to a faster model.
Cost model. For a workload of 1M input tokens + 100K output tokens, Hermes 4 - Llama-3.1 405B (Reasoning) costs $1.30 per million input-equivalent requests. Multiply by your monthly request volume to project the bill, and compare against the speed/correctness profile above to decide if the trade-off is worth it for your workload.
Editorial summary generated from public pricing and benchmark data (Artificial Analysis API). All numbers are sourced — see the Artificial Analysis methodology for benchmark definitions. Last refreshed 2026-09-06.
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