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Hermes 3 70B Instruct vs Claude Opus 4.6
Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.
Winner summary
Claude Opus 4.6 wins on 0/0 benchmarks
Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · Hermes 3 70B Instruct · Claude Opus 4.6 are still filling in scores.
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Hermes 3 70B Instruct
#149 by perf·no signal
Claude Opus 4.6
#56 by perf·#4 by attention
Best value
Hermes 3 70B Instruct
33.5x better value than Claude Opus 4.6
Hermes 3 70B Instruct
128.3 pts/$
$0.30/M
Claude Opus 4.6
3.8 pts/$
$15.00/M
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
nousresearch
private · undisclosed
Anthropic
$380.0B·Tier 1
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 | |
| $5.00 | $25.00 | 1.0M tokens (~500 books) | $100.00 |