Beluga vs Nous Hermes
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Beluga
Stability AI's 2023 Llama fine-tunes — non-commercial, abandoned
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Nous Hermes
Nous Research's open Hermes models — steerable, minimally filtered
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| RECATOOLS Score | 4.3 / 10 | 6.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | Fully free | Fully free |
| Paid from | — | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 200k+ downloads | 500k+ downloads |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | Stability AI | Nous Research Community |
| Verdict | Stable Beluga is a closed chapter. The Llama-2-70B Beluga 2 briefly led the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard in mid-2023 on the strength of Orca-style synthetic training data, but both models shipped under a non-commerc... |
The Hermes series is the closest thing open-source AI has to a house brand: Llama- and Mistral-based fine-tunes known for strong instruction-following, steerability and refusal rates far below the big labs' defaults. Her... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.