OpenHermes vs Nous Hermes

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

OpenHermes Teknium's Mistral 7B fine-tune — 2023's go-to local chat model Visit Nous Hermes Nous Research's open Hermes models — steerable, minimally filtered Visit
RECATOOLS Score 5.9 / 10 6.8 / 10
Capability 5 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 500k+ downloads 500k+ downloads
Founded 2023 2023
Maker Nous Research Nous Research Community
Verdict

OpenHermes 2.5 (Mistral-7B) by Teknium is a widely respected open fine-tune that became a go-to general-purpose 7B model, noted for solid instruction-following, conversation and a notable coding bump from its training mi...

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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