Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B on OpenRouter

Hermes 2 · Nous Research

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Why use Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B on OpenRouter?

OpenRouter offers Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B with pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.14/1M input tokens. OpenRouter is a multi-provider LLM aggregator offering unified API access to 300+ models from all major labs and emerging providers, with automatic failover for reliability.

Compare Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B across 4 providers to find the best fit for your use case
Input / 1M
$0.14
Output / 1M
$0.14
Cache
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Batch
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Setup recipe

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Install
Use the provider REST API or SDK
Auth
Create a provider API key
Call
model: nousresearch/hermes-2-pro-llama-3-8b
Model ID
nousresearch/hermes-2-pro-llama-3-8b

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Curated snippets for this provider are not sourced yet. Use OpenRouter documentation with model ID nousresearch/hermes-2-pro-llama-3-8b.

Gotchas

  • Use provider model ID "nousresearch/hermes-2-pro-llama-3-8b", not the LLMReference slug "hermes2-pro-llama3-8b".

Compare Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B Across Providers

ProviderInput (per 1M)Output (per 1M)
OctoAI API (Deprecated)——
Microsoft Foundry$0.37$1.10
OpenRouter$0.14$0.14
Novita AI$0.14$0.14

Pricing

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$0.14
Output tokens$0.14

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

About Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B

8B Hermes model merging Hermes 2 Pro with Llama 3 architecture for superior function calling and structured outputs. Excels in ChatML format multi-turn conversations.

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Model Specs

Released2023-12-12
Parameters8B
Context8k
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2023-12