Hermes 3 405B Instruct is 15.0× cheaper per million tokens (blended). Claude Opus 5 has the larger context window (1,000,000 vs 131,072 tokens, 7.6×). Hermes 3 405B Instruct is open-weights; the other is not.
Claude Opus 5 vs Hermes 3 405B Instruct
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Claude Opus 5
Anthropic · anthropic__claude-opus-5
Hermes 3 405B Instructopen
Nous Research · nousresearch__hermes-3-llama-3.1-405b
Identity
| Field | anthropic__claude-opus-5 | nousresearch__hermes-3-llama-3.1-405b |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Nous Research |
| Slug | anthropic__claude-opus-5 | nousresearch__hermes-3-llama-3.1-405b |
| Status | live | live |
| Open weights | No | Yes |
| License | — | — |
| HuggingFace | — | NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-405B |
Quality
| Field | anthropic__claude-opus-5 | nousresearch__hermes-3-llama-3.1-405b |
|---|---|---|
| Quality index (0–100) | 93.4 | — |
Cost
| Field | anthropic__claude-opus-5 | nousresearch__hermes-3-llama-3.1-405b |
|---|---|---|
| Input $ / 1M tokens | $5.00 | $1.00 |
| Cached input $ / 1M | $0.50 | — |
| Output $ / 1M tokens | $25.00 | $1.00 |
Context
| Field | anthropic__claude-opus-5 | nousresearch__hermes-3-llama-3.1-405b |
|---|---|---|
| Max context tokens | 1,000,000 | 131,072 |
| Max output tokens | 128,000 | 16,384 |
Modalities
| Field | anthropic__claude-opus-5 | nousresearch__hermes-3-llama-3.1-405b |
|---|---|---|
| Input | text, image, file | text |
| Output | text | text |