OpenChat vs Nous Hermes

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

OpenChat C-RLFT-tuned open 7B that once matched ChatGPT on benchmarks Visit Nous Hermes Nous Research's open Hermes models — steerable, minimally filtered Visit
RECATOOLS Score 6.3 / 10 6.8 / 10
Capability 6 7
Value for money 8 8
Ease of use 5 5
ASEAN readiness 7 5
API quality 0 5
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 Tsinghua University Nous Research Community
Verdict

OpenChat earned its reputation honestly: the 7B OpenChat 3.5 traded blows with early-2023 ChatGPT on public benchmarks thanks to C-RLFT, a training method that squeezes signal out of mixed-quality data, all under Apache...

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.