Platypus vs Nous Hermes
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
| PLA Platypus 2023 leaderboard-topper trained on just 25k curated STEM examples Visit |
Nous Hermes
Nous Research's open Hermes models — steerable, minimally filtered
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| RECATOOLS Score | 4.8 / 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 | 100k+ downloads | 500k+ downloads |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | Boston University / MIT | Nous Research Community |
| Verdict | Platypus is a research project from Boston University: a family of LLaMA-based models fine-tuned on the curated Open-Platypus dataset using LoRA and PEFT, which briefly topped the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard while... |
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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