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Nous: Hermes 3 405B Instruct vs Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking

NNous: Hermes 3 405B Instructnousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-405bVSQQwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinkingqwen/qwen3-vl-8b-thinking

Nous: Hermes 3 405B Instruct and Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking are evenly matched; the right pick depends on your priorities.

MetricNous: Hermes 3 405B InstructQwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking
Intelligence Index17.6✓16.7
Coding Index18.1✓9.8
GPQA Diamond54%58%✓
Design Arena Elo——
Speed (tokens/sec)19108✓
Latency463ms✓870ms
Input price /M$1.00$0.117✓
Output price /M$1.00✓$1.36
Context window131K256K✓
CapabilitiesJSONReasoningToolsJSONVision
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