What are the hardware requirements for Hermes 4 70B?

Hermes 4 70B requires approximately 141.9 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Hermes 4 70B and how large is it?

Hermes 4 70B is developed by NousResearch, a model with 70b 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 70B?

Hermes 4 70B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Hermes 4 70B by NousResearch — VRAM 141.9GB, 128K context

Name: Hermes 4 70B
Author: NousResearch

Hermes 4 70B is an open-source language model by NousResearch. Features: 70b LLM, VRAM: 141.9GB, Context: 128K, License: llama3, LLM Explorer Score: 0.25.

Arxiv:2508.18255 Atropos Base model:finetune:meta-llama... Base model:meta-llama/llama-3.... Chat Chatml Conversational Dataforge En Endpoints compatible Finetuned Function calling Hybrid-mode Instruct Json mode Llama Llama-3.1 Long context Reasoning Region:us Roleplaying Safetensors Sharded Structured outputs Tensorflow Tool use

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Hermes-4-70B

Hermes 4 70B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Hermes 4 70B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Hermes-4-70B
Base Model(s)	meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-70B meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-70B
Model Size	70b
Required VRAM	141.9 GB
Updated	2026-07-08
Maintainer	NousResearch
Model Type	llama
Model Files	4.6 GB: 1-of-30 4.7 GB: 2-of-30 5.0 GB: 3-of-30 5.0 GB: 4-of-30 4.7 GB: 5-of-30 4.7 GB: 6-of-30 4.7 GB: 7-of-30 5.0 GB: 8-of-30 5.0 GB: 9-of-30 4.7 GB: 10-of-30 4.7 GB: 11-of-30 4.7 GB: 12-of-30 5.0 GB: 13-of-30 5.0 GB: 14-of-30 4.7 GB: 15-of-30 4.7 GB: 16-of-30 4.7 GB: 17-of-30 5.0 GB: 18-of-30 5.0 GB: 19-of-30 4.7 GB: 20-of-30 4.7 GB: 21-of-30 4.7 GB: 22-of-30 5.0 GB: 23-of-30 5.0 GB: 24-of-30 4.7 GB: 25-of-30 4.7 GB: 26-of-30 4.7 GB: 27-of-30 5.0 GB: 28-of-30 5.0 GB: 29-of-30 2.1 GB: 30-of-30
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.52.4
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizer
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Quantized Models of the Hermes 4 70B

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Hermes 4 70B 8bit	2	87	75 GB
Hermes 4 70B 5bit	2	49	48 GB

Best Alternatives to Hermes 4 70B

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... Chat 1048K Chinese Llama3 70B	1024K / 141.9 GB	9069	5
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Llama3 Function Calling 1048K	1024K / 141.9 GB	5	1
...a 3 70B Instruct Gradient 524K	512K / 141.9 GB	24	23
...a 3 70B Instruct Gradient 262K	256K / 141.9 GB	20	56
...ama 3 70B Arimas Story RP V2.0	256K / 141.1 GB	10	3
...ama 3 70B Arimas Story RP V1.6	256K / 141.2 GB	5	0
...ama 3 70B Arimas Story RP V1.5	256K / 141.2 GB	21	3
Yi 70B 200K RPMerge Franken	195K / 142.4 GB	3	1