Nous Research: Hermes 2 Pro - Llama-3 8B

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NousResearch: Hermes 2 Pro - Llama-3 8B is a text model for general chat, analysis, and production use. It combines steady general-purpose performance with a 8K tokens context window and a low-cost profile. Use it for general chat, analysis, and production workloads when quality, speed, and cost matters.

Input

$0.14/1M

Output

$0.14/1M

Cached

$0.00/1M

Batch

$0.01/1M

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Technical specifications

Hermes 2 Pro - Llama-3 8B at a glance.

Memory

8,192

tokens

Max reply

8,192

tokens

Memory tier

Small

a few emails or a short document

Tokenizer

llama3

Released

May 2024

Training cutoff

Dec 2023

Availability

Public pricing

Status

active

Benchmarks

Quality benchmarks

Independent evaluations from public leaderboards. Higher is better.

  • ifeval

    53.62

  • bbh

    30.67

  • mmlu_pro

    22.8

What it can do

Capabilities & limits.

  • Understands images
  • Deep step-by-step thinking
  • Uses tools / calls functions
  • Strict JSON output
  • Streams replies
  • Fine-tunable on your data

When to pick Hermes 2 Pro - Llama-3 8B

  • Agentic workflows that call tools or APIs.
  • High-volume workloads where unit cost matters.

When to look elsewhere

  • Your workload involves images — pick a vision-capable model instead.
  • Your inputs routinely exceed short documents.

Alternatives

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FAQ

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At a typical workload of 50,000 conversations a month with 1,500-token prompts and 800-token replies, Hermes 2 Pro - Llama-3 8B costs roughly $16 per month. Input is $0.14 /1M tokens and output is $0.14 /1M tokens.
Hermes 2 Pro - Llama-3 8B has a 8,192-token context window (small memory — a few emails or a short document). That means you can fit about 1,536 words of input and history in a single call.
Beyond text generation, Hermes 2 Pro - Llama-3 8B supports calling functions / tools, strict JSON output, fine-tuning on your own data. It streams replies by default.
Hermes 2 Pro - Llama-3 8B was released in May 2024, with training data cut off around December 2023.
Models in a similar class include Hermes 4 70B, Hermes 3 405B Instruct, Hermes 3 70B Instruct. The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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