DeepSeek R1 is here: Performance on par with [OpenAI o1](/openai/o1), but open-sourced and with fully open reasoning tokens. It's 671B parameters in size, with 37B active in an inference pass....
Model details →DeepSeek: R1 vs Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct
DeepSeek: R1 wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Hermes 3 is a generalist language model with many improvements over [Hermes 2](/models/nousresearch/nous-hermes-2-mistral-7b-dpo), including advanced agentic capabilities, much better roleplaying, reasoning, multi-turn conversation, long co…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | DeepSeek: R1 | Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 164K | 131K | 🏆 DeepSeek: R1 |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $0.70 | $0.70 | Tie |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $2.50 | $0.70 | 🏆 Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | — | 🏆 DeepSeek: R1 |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | — | — | Tie |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | Yes | — | 🏆 DeepSeek: R1 |
Frequently asked questions
Is DeepSeek: R1 better than Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct?
DeepSeek: R1 wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between DeepSeek: R1 and Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct?
Input: $0.70 vs $0.70 per 1M tokens. Output: $2.50 vs $0.70 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do DeepSeek: R1 and Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct support?
DeepSeek: R1 supports up to 164K tokens. Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct supports up to 131K tokens.
Do both DeepSeek: R1 and Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct support tool calling?
DeepSeek: R1: yes. Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instruct: not advertised.
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