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 unsloth, 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 unsloth — VRAM 141.9GB, 128K context

Name: Hermes 4 70B
Author: unsloth

Hermes 4 70B is an open-source language model by unsloth. Features: 70b LLM, VRAM: 141.9GB, Context: 128K, License: llama3, LLM Explorer Score: 0.2.

Arxiv:2508.18255 Atropos Base model:finetune:nousresear... Base model:nousresearch/hermes... 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 Unsloth

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

Hermes 4 70B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Hermes 4 70B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Hermes-4-70B
Base Model(s)	Hermes 4 70B NousResearch/Hermes-4-70B
Model Size	70b
Required VRAM	141.9 GB
Updated	2026-08-10
Maintainer	unsloth
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	4.55.4
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|finetune_right_pad_id\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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