What are the hardware requirements for Hermes 4 14B?

Hermes 4 14B requires approximately 29.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 40K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Hermes 4 14B and how large is it?

Hermes 4 14B is developed by NousResearch, a model with 14b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Hermes 4 14B?

Hermes 4 14B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Hermes 4 14B by NousResearch — VRAM 29.5GB, 40K context

Name: Hermes 4 14B
Rating: 2.5 (4 reviews)
Author: NousResearch

Hermes 4 14B is an open-source language model by NousResearch. Features: 14b LLM, VRAM: 29.5GB, Context: 40K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.3.

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Hermes-4-14B

Hermes 4 14B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Hermes 4 14B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Hermes-4-14B
Base Model(s)	Qwen3 14B Qwen/Qwen3-14B
Model Size	14b
Required VRAM	29.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-20
Maintainer	NousResearch
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-6 5.0 GB: 2-of-6 4.9 GB: 3-of-6 5.0 GB: 4-of-6 4.9 GB: 5-of-6 4.7 GB: 6-of-6
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	40960
Model Max Length	40960
Transformers Version	4.54.0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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Quantized Models of the Hermes 4 14B

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Hermes 4 14B 4bit	5	1122	8 GB
Hermes 4 14B 8bit	2	368	15 GB

Best Alternatives to Hermes 4 14B

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
...JA Qwen3 14B Agentic 256K V0.1	256K / 29.5 GB	28	8
SimpleChat 14B V1	195K / 29.5 GB	10	2
...0528DistillQwen 14B V27.3 200K	195K / 29.5 GB	9	5
...uct 21B Brainstorm20x 128K Ctx	128K / 84.1 GB	8	0
NousCoder 14B	80K / 29.5 GB	379	221
MiroThinker 14B DPO V0.2	64K / 29.7 GB	28	6
UIGEN T3 14B Preview	40K / 29.5 GB	24	22
Qwen3 14B	40K / 29.7 GB	2722973	437
...Svamp14 Sft Merged Bf16 R8 A16	40K / 29.5 GB	466	0
Qwen3 14B NVFP4	40K / 10.6 GB	125214	13

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than NousResearch/Hermes-4-14B.