What are Hermes 4 70B's benchmark scores?

As of 25 Oct 2026, Hermes 4 70B (thinking effort) scores 41.1 ±3.2 on the BenchLeader Index, strongest in reasoning (41) and weakest in long context (29). That rests on 6 independent benchmark results, and every score on this page links to its publisher.

How does Hermes 4 70B rank?

Hermes 4 70B (thinking effort) is #640 of 785 ranked configurations on 25 Oct 2026. 276 other configurations score within its margin, so the exact position matters less than the band. The leader is Claude Opus 5.5 (max effort) at 72.6.

When was Hermes 4 70B released?

Nous Research released Hermes 4 70B on 27 Aug 2025. BenchLeader has results for it at 2 reasoning-effort settings.

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Hermes 4 70B

Reasoning effort

Hermes 4 70B is a Nous Research open-weights reasoning model, released 27 Aug 2025. Its best configuration (thinking reasoning effort) ranks #640 of 785 on the BenchLeader Index at 41.1 ±3.2, in the lower half. The ± is the point: 276 other configurations score within that range, so they and this one cannot be told apart on quality alone — price and speed are what separate them. It scores highest in reasoning (41) and lowest in long context (29). It has been measured at 2 reasoning-effort settings; this summary describes the best-scoring one, and the tabs above switch between them. Last measured 27 Aug 2025.stale: no new result in six months

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Released: 27 Aug 2025

How it scores by categoryDashed line = average model (50). One step of 15 = one standard deviation.

Overall index41
Reasoning41
Agents & tools38
Knowledge39
Instruction following35
Long context29
Composite38

Reasoning-effort configurations

The same model behaves differently depending on how much it is allowed to think. Each row is one setting, scored only on the benchmarks that were run at that setting. “Not stated” collects results from publishers that did not say which setting they used; for a reasoning model that is usually its thinking mode, but we do not assume it. Pick a setting here or at the top of the page to see its price, speed and category scores.

Effort	Index	Rank	Speed	First answer	Chat reply cost	Categories
no reasoning	40.0	#668	–	–	–	Agents & tools 34 · Composite 37 · Instruction following 33 · Knowledge 40 · Long context 26 · Reasoning 41
thinkingbest	41.1	#640	–	–	–	Agents & tools 38 · Composite 38 · Instruction following 35 · Knowledge 39 · Long context 29 · Reasoning 41

How its index has moved

9 Sept 2026 to 21 Oct 2026

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The index is recomputed from scratch every day, so a line moves when a new benchmark result lands, when a publisher revises a score, or when the models it is normalised against change. Early movement usually means the score is still settling.

Benchmark results

See all LLM benchmarks. One column per reasoning effort. Rank is among every configuration of every model on that benchmark. Hover a score for the run it came from.

Reasoning

Benchmark	no reasoning	thinking	Source
GPQA Diamond (AA)not in index	49.1%#433	69.9%#299	Artificial Analysis
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)not in index	3.6%#586	8.8%#343	Artificial Analysis
CritPt	0.0%#315	0.0%#315	Artificial Analysis

Agents & tools

Benchmark	no reasoning	thinking	Source
Terminal-Bench Hard	0.0%#362	4.5%#284	Artificial Analysis
τ²-Bench Telecom (AA)not in index	21.6%#319	22.5%#311	Artificial Analysis

Knowledge

Benchmark	no reasoning	thinking	Source
AA-Omniscience	-48.6#378	-49.4#385	Artificial Analysis
AA-Omniscience: accuracynot in index	18.7%#329	23.6%#256	Artificial Analysis
AA-Omniscience: non-hallucinationnot in index	17.3%#317	4.6%#528	Artificial Analysis

Instruction following

Benchmark	no reasoning	thinking	Source
IFBench	29.0%#370	31.3%#356	Artificial Analysis

Long context

Benchmark	no reasoning	thinking	Source
AA-LCR	4.7%#489	9.7%#469	Artificial Analysis

Composite

Benchmark	no reasoning	thinking	Source
AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2	6.7#516	7.9#449	Artificial Analysis

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What are Hermes 4 70B's benchmark scores?: As of 25 Oct 2026, Hermes 4 70B (thinking effort) scores 41.1 ±3.2 on the BenchLeader Index, strongest in reasoning (41) and weakest in long context (29). That rests on 6 independent benchmark results, and every score on this page links to its publisher.
How does Hermes 4 70B rank?: Hermes 4 70B (thinking effort) is #640 of 785 ranked configurations on 25 Oct 2026. 276 other configurations score within its margin, so the exact position matters less than the band. The leader is Claude Opus 5.5 (max effort) at 72.6.
When was Hermes 4 70B released?: Nous Research released Hermes 4 70B on 27 Aug 2025. BenchLeader has results for it at 2 reasoning-effort settings.

Data as of 25 Oct 2026. Compare these configurations.

Cite as: BenchLeader, “Hermes 4 70B: benchmarks, pricing, speed and rank”, data as of 25 Oct 2026, https://www.benchleader.com/models/hermes-4-llama-3-1-70b.