Hermes 3 8B
Hermes 3 8B is Nous Research's language model with a 131K context window, starting at $0.025 / 1M input and $0.04 / 1M output. A compact 8B-parameter LLM from Nous Research in the Hermes 3 series, balancing efficiency with strong instruction-following and reasoning.
| Specifications | |
|---|---|
nousresearch-hermes-3-8b | |
| Language | |
| Active | |
| Nous Research | |
| 131K tokens | |
| Text | |
| Text | |
| 8B | |
Capabilities
Input1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities2/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling✓
Parallel Function Calling✓
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·
Pricing by Provider
US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
| Provider | Standard | |
|---|---|---|
| Input $ / 1M | Output $ / 1M | |
| $0.025 | $0.04 | |
Cost Calculator
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Cheapest Instances to Run It
Cloud GPU instances that can host Hermes 3 8B, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 19 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.
All clouds
FP16 (full precision)
US Dollar ($)
Instance | Cloud | GPU | VRAM | Price | Cheapest region | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| g2-standard-4 |  GCP | nvidia-l4 | 24 GB | $0.705/hr | us-east4 | |
| g6.xlarge |  AWS | L4 | 22 GB | $0.805/hr | us-east-1 | |
| g2-standard-8 | GCP | nvidia-l4 | 24 GB | $0.851/hr | us-east4 | |
Versions
| Version | Released | Context | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hermes 3 8B TEE | — | 16K | $0.150 | $0.600 | Available |
| Hermes 4 405B | 131K | $1.00 | $3.00 | Available | |
| Hermes 4 70B | 131K | $0.130 | $0.400 | Available | |
| Hermes 3 8B | — | 131K | $0.025 | $0.040 | Current |
| DeepHermes 3 Mistral 24B Preview | — | — | — | — | Available |
| DeepHermes 3 Llama 3.1 8B Preview | — | — | — | — | Available |
| Hermes 3 405B | — | 131K | $0.800 | $0.800 | Available |
| Hermes 3 70B | — | 131K | $0.120 | $0.300 | Available |