What are the hardware requirements for Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B DPO?

Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B DPO requires approximately 93.6 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B DPO and how large is it?

Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B DPO is developed by NousResearch, a model with 46.7b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B DPO perform on standard benchmarks?

Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B DPO has the following published scores: MMLU 72.28, LMSYS ELO 1164. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B DPO by NousResearch — VRAM 93.6GB, 32K context

Name: Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B DPO
Author: NousResearch

Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B DPO is an open-source language model by NousResearch. Features: 46.7b LLM, VRAM: 93.6GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, MoE, LLM Explorer Score: 0.37, ELO: 1164, Arc: 71.4, HellaSwag: 87.2, MMLU: 72.3, GSM8K: 70.7.

Base model:finetune:mistralai/... Base model:mistralai/mixtral-8... Chatml Conversational Dataset:teknium/openhermes-2.5 Deploy:azure Distillation Dpo En Endpoints compatible Finetuned Gpt4 Instruct Mixtral Moe Region:us Rlhf Safetensors Sharded Synthetic data Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-DPO

Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B DPO Benchmarks

LMSys ELO 1164 vs 1272 (so35) -8.5%

^nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").

What is the LLM Explorer Rank (Score)

Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B DPO Parameters and Internals

Model Type

instruct, finetune, chatml, DPO, RLHF, gpt4, synthetic data, distillation

Additional Notes

Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B DPO is the new flagship Nous Research model.

Supported Languages

en (English)

Training Details

Data Sources:

teknium/OpenHermes-2.5

Data Volume:

1,000,000 entries

Methodology:

SFT + DPO

Model Architecture:

Mixtral 8x7B MoE LLM

Input Output

Input Format:

ChatML

Accepted Modalities:

text

Output Format:

text

LLM Name	Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B DPO
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-DPO
Base Model(s)	mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1 mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1
Model Size	46.7b
Required VRAM	93.6 GB
Updated	2026-07-25
Maintainer	NousResearch
Model Type	mixtral
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-19 5.0 GB: 2-of-19 5.0 GB: 3-of-19 4.9 GB: 4-of-19 5.0 GB: 5-of-19 5.0 GB: 6-of-19 4.9 GB: 7-of-19 5.0 GB: 8-of-19 5.0 GB: 9-of-19 4.9 GB: 10-of-19 5.0 GB: 11-of-19 5.0 GB: 12-of-19 5.0 GB: 13-of-19 4.9 GB: 14-of-19 5.0 GB: 15-of-19 5.0 GB: 16-of-19 4.9 GB: 17-of-19 5.0 GB: 18-of-19 4.2 GB: 19-of-19
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	MixtralForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.37.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	</s>
Vocabulary Size	32002
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Quantized Models of the Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B DPO

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
...Horizon AI Korean Advanced 56B	1	31	93 GB
...Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B DPO GGUF	66	2013	17 GB
...Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B DPO GGUF	2	277	17 GB
...Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B DPO GPTQ	26	31	23 GB
... Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B DPO AWQ	22	30	24 GB
...Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B DPO GPTQ	1	5	24 GB

Best Alternatives to Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B DPO

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Mixtral 8x7B Instruct V0.1	32K / 93.6 GB	842893	4720
Mixtral 8x7B V0.1	32K / 93.6 GB	49231	1820
Sensualize Mixtral Bf16	32K / 93.6 GB	0	0
Skadi Mixtral V1	32K / 93.5 GB	0	0
Franziska Mixtral V1	32K / 93.5 GB	0	0
Typhon Mixtral V1	32K / 93.4 GB	0	0
GritLM 8x7B KTO	32K / 93.6 GB	7976	3
Mixtral 8x7B Instruct V0.1	32K / 93.6 GB	7	0
Smaug Mixtral V0.1	32K / 187.7 GB	8437	12
Mixtral 8x7B Instruct V0.1 FP8	32K / 47.1 GB	3383	0

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-DPO.