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Claude Opus 4.6 vs Hermes 3 70B Instruct

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Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · Claude Opus 4.6 · Hermes 3 70B Instruct are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
Claude Opus 4.6
#56 by perf·#4 by attention
DESERVED
Hermes 3 70B Instruct
#149 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
33.5x better value than Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.6
3.8 pts/$
$15.00/M
Hermes 3 70B Instruct
128.3 pts/$
$0.30/M
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$380.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
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nousresearch
private · undisclosed
Unknown
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude Opus 4.6$5.00$25.001.0M tokens (~500 books)$100.00
nousresearch logoHermes 3 70B Instruct$0.30$0.30131K tokens (~66 books)$3.00