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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B vs Hermes 3 70B Instruct vs Llama 3 8B Instruct
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Winner summary
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B wins on 3/6 benchmarks
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B wins 3 of 6 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge · math · reasoning.
Category leads
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Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
#64 by perf·no signal
Hermes 3 70B Instruct
#149 by perf·no signal
Llama 3 8B Instruct
#184 by perf·no signal
Best value
Llama 3 8B Instruct
6.9x better value than Hermes 3 70B Instruct
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
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no price
Hermes 3 70B Instruct
128.3 pts/$
$0.30/M
Llama 3 8B Instruct
880.0 pts/$
$0.04/M
Vendor risk
Mixed exposure
One or more vendors flagged
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
nousresearch
private · undisclosed
Meta AI
$1.50T·Tier 1
Head to head
6 benchmarks · 3 models
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14BHermes 3 70B InstructLlama 3 8B Instruct
BBH (HuggingFace)
Hermes 3 70B Instruct leads by +13.1
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
40.7
Hermes 3 70B Instruct
53.8
Llama 3 8B Instruct
18.4
GPQA
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B leads by +3.5
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
18.3
Hermes 3 70B Instruct
14.9
Llama 3 8B Instruct
2.1
IFEval
Hermes 3 70B Instruct leads by +32.8
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
43.8
Hermes 3 70B Instruct
76.6
Llama 3 8B Instruct
24.0
MATH Level 5
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B leads by +36.0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
57.0
Hermes 3 70B Instruct
21.0
Llama 3 8B Instruct
3.9
MMLU-PRO
Hermes 3 70B Instruct leads by +0.7
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
40.7
Hermes 3 70B Instruct
41.4
Llama 3 8B Instruct
17.8
MUSR
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B leads by +5.3
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
28.7
Hermes 3 70B Instruct
23.4
Llama 3 8B Instruct
19.9
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B | Hermes 3 70B Instruct | Llama 3 8B Instruct |
|---|---|---|---|
BBH (HuggingFace) | 40.7 | 53.8 | 18.4 |
GPQA | 18.3 | 14.9 | 2.1 |
IFEval | 43.8 | 76.6 | 24.0 |
MATH Level 5 | 57.0 | 21.0 | 3.9 |
MMLU-PRO | 40.7 | 41.4 | 17.8 |
MUSR | 28.7 | 23.4 | 19.9 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | — | |
| $0.30 | $0.30 | 131K tokens (~66 books) | $3.00 | |
| $0.03 | $0.04 | 8K tokens (~4 books) | $0.33 |