Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B on Fireworks AI

Hermes 2 · Nous Research

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Why use Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B on Fireworks AI?

Fireworks AI offers Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B. Fireworks AI offers a generative AI platform as a service, focusing on rapid product iteration and cost-efficient AI deployment.

Compare Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B across 4 providers to find the best fit for your use case
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Output / 1M
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Cache
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Batch
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Setup recipe

Python + curl
Install
pip install openai
Auth
export FIREWORKS_API_KEY=...
Call
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["FIREWORKS_API_KEY"],
Model ID
accounts/fireworks/models/nous-hermes-2-mixtral-8x7b-dpo

Request example

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["FIREWORKS_API_KEY"],
    base_url="https://api.fireworks.ai/inference/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="accounts/fireworks/models/nous-hermes-2-mixtral-8x7b-dpo",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Gotchas

  • Use provider model ID "accounts/fireworks/models/nous-hermes-2-mixtral-8x7b-dpo", not the LLMReference slug "nous-hermes2-mixtral-8x7b".
  • Fireworks model IDs use "accounts/fireworks/models/{model-name}" format, e.g. "accounts/fireworks/models/llama4-scout-instruct-basic" or "accounts/fireworks/models/deepseek-r1".
  • The examples expect FIREWORKS_API_KEY; rename it only if your application config maps the new variable.

Compare Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B Across Providers

ProviderInput (per 1M)Output (per 1M)
OctoAI API (Deprecated)——
Fireworks AI——
Together AI$0.40$0.40
OctoML (Deprecated)$0.40$0.60

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

About Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B

Mixtral MoE variant of Hermes trained on 1M+ GPT-4 entries for content generation and customer service. Available in quantized formats (GGUF, GPTQ, AWQ) for flexible deployment.

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Model Specs

Released2023-12-12
Parameters8x7B
Context32K
ArchitectureMixture of Experts
Knowledge cutoff2023-12

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