Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct

Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct is a text-only model from NousResearch with a 131,072-token context window and a 16,384-token completion limit. It accepts text input only and does not support tool use, built-in reasoning, or structured output, so workflows that depend on those features will require a different option. At $0.70 per million tokens for both input and output, the pricing is symmetric and sits in the mid-tier range among similarly sized models. The practical catch for buyers is that there is currently no independent benchmark coverage, so performance relative to competitors is unverified. It may appeal to developers running long-context summarization or generation tasks on a moderate budget, but anyone selecting a model for a production use case should treat it as unproven and weigh that uncertainty against alternatives with documented benchmark scores before committing.