Nous Research

Nous: Hermes 4 405B

Hermes 4 is a large-scale reasoning model built on Meta-Llama-3.1-405B and released by Nous Research. It introduces a hybrid reasoning mode, where the model can choose to deliberate internally with...

ReasoningStreamingJSON mode
131.1K token context Released Aug 26, 2025

Intelligence overview

131.1K tok

Context window

118.0K tok

Max output

Capabilities

What Nous: Hermes 4 405B can do.

Reasoning

Extended reasoning

Works through problems step by step before answering, trading latency for accuracy on harder tasks.

Development

Structured output

Returns responses constrained to a JSON schema, ready to parse without cleanup.

Streaming

Streams tokens as they're generated instead of waiting on the full response.

Pricing

Pay for what you use.

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INPUT

$1 / 1M tok

OUTPUT

$3 / 1M tok

Use cases

Built for serious work.

Build

Generate and refactor code, with the ability to return structured, parseable output.

Think

Works through multi-step problems with extended reasoning before it answers.

Research

Holds up to 131.1K tokens of source material in context without losing the thread.

Preview

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Comparison

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Specification

Technical details.

Specification

Context window
131.1K tokens
Max output
118.0K tokens
Input modalities
Text
Output modalities
Text
Knowledge cutoff
Aug 31, 2024
Release date
Aug 26, 2025
Streaming
Supported
Tool calling
Not supported
JSON mode
Supported

Model identity

Provider ID
nousresearch

Model ID

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