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Nous: Hermes 3 405B Instruct vs Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

NNous: Hermes 3 405B Instructnousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-405bVSQQwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instructqwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct wins on more metrics (5 of 8), but the right pick depends on what you optimize for — see the breakdown below.

MetricNous: Hermes 3 405B InstructQwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
Intelligence Index17.6✓17.0
Coding Index18.1✓14.0
GPQA Diamond54%61%✓
Design Arena Elo——
Speed (tokens/sec)2047✓
Latency500ms✓970ms
Input price /M$1.00$0.200✓
Output price /M$1.00$0.880✓
Context window131K262K✓
CapabilitiesJSONToolsJSONVision
Nous: Hermes 3 405B Instruct details →Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct details →