LLM Reference

Nous Hermes 13B

Released
2023-12-15
Last refreshed
2026-04-15
Status
Researched 154d ago

Nous Hermes 13B is worth evaluating for general LLM work when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating general LLM work
  • Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route

Do not use it for

  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
Family
Hermes
Released
2023-12-15
Parameters
13B
Architecture
Decoder Only
Specialization
general
Training
finetuned
Created by

Human-centric AI model innovation

New York, New York, United States
Founded 2023
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$0.130
Input / 1M
$0.130

Cheapest of 1 route · Lepton AI API

About

The Nous Hermes 13B is a cutting-edge large language model fine-tuned on over 300,000 instructions and built upon the Llama 13B architecture. Developed by Nous Research, with significant contributions from Teknium, Karan4D, and Redmond AI, the model excels in generating coherent long-form responses and performs comparably to GPT-3.5-turbo. It avoids OpenAI's content censorship, offering more open dialogues. Additionally, Nous Hermes 13B achieves top rankings in various benchmark tests and is available for download on Hugging Face, with future plans for model quantization and further benchmarking 123.

Nous Hermes 13B is a model in the Hermes family. This page tracks provider routes through Lepton AI API, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.13 input and $0.13 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Nous Hermes 13B yet.

Top use-case fit

No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.

Provider price ladder

Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
Lepton AI API$0.130$0.130
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