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Hermes 3 70B Instruct vs Granite 4.0 Micro

Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated April 2026

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	H Hermes 3 70B Instruct	G Granite 4.0 Micro
Organization	Nous Research	IBM
OpenTools Score
Family	Hermes	Granite
Status	Current	Current
Release Date	Aug 2024	Oct 2025
Context Window	131K tokens	131K tokens
Input Price	$0.30/M tokens	$0.02/M tokens
Output Price	$0.30/M tokens	$0.11/M tokens
Capabilities	textcode	textcode
API Identifier	`nousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-70b`	`ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-micro`
Benchmarks
MMLU	82openrouter	—
	View Hermes 3 70B Instruct	View Granite 4.0 Micro

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Model	Input	Output	Total / mo	vs Best
Granite 4.0 MicroCheapest	$0.02	$0.06	$0.07	—
Hermes 3 70B Instruct	$0.30	$0.15	$0.45	+525%

Nous Research

Hermes 3 70B Instruct

Hermes 3 70B Instruct is a large language model from Nous Research. Supports up to 131,072 token context window. Achieves 82.0% on MMLU. Available from $0.30/M input tokens.

IBM

Granite 4.0 Micro

Granite 4.0 Micro is a large language model from IBM. Supports up to 131,000 token context window. Available from $0.02/M input tokens.