Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 70B
Larger Hermes 3 variant on top of Llama 3.1 70B. Widely used in agent-heavy workloads that need strong tool use combined with reliable function-calling schemas.
- Parameters
- 70B
- Context length
- 128K
- Modality
- text
- Released
- 2024-08-15
- Tokenizer
- Llama 3
Memory & hardware
- VRAM (fp16)
- 140 GB
- VRAM (Q4)
- 42 GB
- Recommended
- 1× H100 80GB (fp16) or RTX 4090 (Q4)
- Quantizations
- fp16, fp8, q8_0, q5_k_m, q4_k_m
License: Llama 3 Community License
- SPDX
- —
- Commercial use
- Yes
- Modification
- Yes
- Redistribution
- Yes
Benchmarks
Hosted inference pricing
USD per million tokens.
| Provider | Input | Output | |
|---|---|---|---|
| openrouterCheapest | $0.70 | $0.70 | Visit ↗ |
Run it yourself
Drop-in commands for the three most common open-source inference paths. The Ollama tag is a best-effort match against the registry; verify the size variant before pulling.
ollama run llama3.1:70b
vllm serve NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-70B
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-70B")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
"NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-70B", device_map="auto", torch_dtype="auto"
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