Nous Research
35 models across 8 families · Latest: Hermes-4-70B (2025-09)
Human-centric AI model innovation
Nous Research's portfolio covers 35 active models across 8 current families, spanning agents, long context, and classification. Open a model detail page to compare provider routes and sourced benchmarks.
Covers 4 workload areas across 35 active tracked models; last verified 2026-05-19.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating agents, long context, and classification across this lab's releases
- Comparing model families before committing to a flagship
- Migration and pricing follow-ups across 35 tracked models
Do not use it for
- Choosing a hosting provider without opening a model page for price ladders
Active models
35
Current models from this lab, excluding deprecated ones
Active families
8
Current model families from this lab
Open catalog
35 open
22 open source / 13 open weights
Lowest output price
$0.130 /1M
Cheapest tracked output across active models, per 1M tokens
Latest dated release
2025-09-22
Hermes-4-70B
Freshness
2026-05-19
Researched 106d ago
Information
Release cadence
- Dated releases
- 5
- Latest model
- Hermes-4-70B
- Latest date
- 2025-09-22
Where this lab wins
- Agentic: 1 tracked model with BFCL, tau-bench, and SWE-bench tool-use coverage.
- Long-context: 9 tracked models with context-token or InfiniteBench-class signal.
- Classification: 3 tracked models with MMLU-class moderation/safety coverage.
- JSON/tool-use: 4 tracked models with BFCL / Nexus strict-JSON routing coverage.
Flagship quality / price signal
- Flagship
- Hermes 2 Pro Llama 3 8B
- Selection source
- Best sourced coding Q/$
- Coding grade
- unknown
- Benchmark / output price
- Not enough sourced benchmark and price coverage
About
Nous Research, founded in 2023 and based in New York, NY, stands as a beacon of innovation within the realm of artificial intelligence. As a private applied research group, it specializes in AI and machine learning within the technology sector, emphasizing the development of human-centric simulators and models. The team at Nous Research is distinguished by their groundbreaking work in the architecture of large language models (LLMs), data synthesis, and output steering, all aimed at aligning AI systems with real-world user experiences. Committed to challenging the traditional closed-model approach, Nous Research prioritizes open-source, human-compatible models.
Featured models
| Model | Released | Context | Input price ($/1M) | Output price ($/1M) | License | Openness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hermes-4-70B | 2025-09-22 | 128k | $0.05 | $0.20 | Llama 3 Community | Open weights |
| Hermes-4-405B | 2025-09-22 | 128k | $0.09 | $0.37 | Llama 3 Community | Open weights |
| Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 405B | 2024-11-01 | 128k | $1 | $1 | Llama 3 Community | Open weights |
Model families
Recent releases
- Hermes-4-70B- 2025-09-22
- Hermes-4-405B- 2025-09-22
- Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 405B- 2024-11-01
- Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 70B- 2024-11-01
- Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 8B- 2024-11-01
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Last reviewed: 2026-05-19. Data sourced from public lab announcements and provider documentation.