Hermes 4 405B
Hermes 4 is a large-scale reasoning model built on Meta-Llama-3.1-405B and released by Nous Research.
Model by Nous Research
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{
"model": "nousresearch/hermes-4-405b",
"baseURL": "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"
}OpenAI-compatible API: point any OpenAI SDK at the base URL and use this model id.
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OPENROUTER_API_KEYrequiredsecret
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Use cases: model-inference
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Price and limits
| Variant | Input $/M tokens | Output $/M tokens | Cached input $/M |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | $1 | $3 | — |
Price as of Oct 26, 2026 from OpenRouter. Prices change often; check before you rely on one.
- Provider
- Nous Research
- Model id
nousresearch/hermes-4-405b- Context window
- 131,072 tokens (131K)
- Max output
- 117,964 tokens
- Input
- text
- Output
- text
- Tool calling
- Not listed
- Structured outputs
- Yes
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Weights
- Open: NousResearch/Hermes-4-405B
- Released
- Aug 26, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2024-08-31
Details
- Auth
- API key
- License
- License unknown
- Website
- nousresearch.com
- First seen
- Oct 24, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 26, 2026
- Source
- OpenRouter
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Hermes 4 405B: price, context window, tool use. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/models/nousresearch-hermes-4-405b (last updated 2026-10-26)