Hermes 3 405B Instruct vs Qwen3 Coder Plus

Hermes 3 405B Instruct at $1.15 in and $1.15 out and Qwen3 Coder Plus at $0.748 in and $3.74 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Hermes 3 405B Instruct

Nous Research

0.67¢

for a client proposal

$1.15 in · $1.15 out / 1M

131K context · released August 2024

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Qwen3 Coder Plus

Qwen

0.67¢

for a client proposal

$0.748 in · $3.74 out / 1M

1M context · released September 2025

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 1.3¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Qwen3 Coder Plus at $0.748 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Hermes 3 405B Instruct at $1.15 per million tokens.
Largest context: Qwen3 Coder Plus at 1M tokens — about 1,400 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

Hermes 3 405B Instruct

0.29¢

Qwen3 Coder Plus

0.34¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Hermes 3 405B Instruct

0.67¢

Qwen3 Coder Plus

0.67¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Hermes 3 405B Instruct

needs 155K ctx

Qwen3 Coder Plus

$0.39

Long-context rate applied at this input size.

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Hermes 3 405B Instruct

4.1¢

Qwen3 Coder Plus

$0.05

Long-context rate applied at this input size.

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Hermes 3 405B Instruct

needs 250K ctx

Qwen3 Coder Plus

$0.59

Long-context rate applied at this input size.

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

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80% Input20% Output

Hermes 3 405B Instruct

Qwen3 Coder Plus

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Pricing

Hermes 3 405B Instruct

Qwen3 Coder Plus

Input / 1M tokens

$1.15

$0.748

Output / 1M tokens

$1.15

$3.74

Cached input / 1M

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$0.149

Specs

Hermes 3 405B Instruct

Qwen3 Coder Plus

Provider

Nous Research

Qwen

Released

August 2024

September 2025

Context window

131K

Max output

16K

66K

Input

Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Knowledge cutoff

2023-12-31

2025-06-30

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Hermes 3 405B Instruct

Nous Research

0.29¢

for this task

80% input · 20% output

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Qwen3 Coder Plus

Qwen

0.34¢

for this task

44% input · 56% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.62¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 801 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Qwen3 Coder Plus has the largest context window here — 1M tokens.

On price, Hermes 3 405B Instruct is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.67¢.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

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Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Hermes 3 405B Instruct or Qwen3 Coder Plus?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Hermes 3 405B Instruct at 0.67¢; Qwen3 Coder Plus at 0.67¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Qwen3 Coder Plus — 1M tokens, about 1,400 pages.

Can I run Hermes 3 405B Instruct and Qwen3 Coder Plus side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 1.3¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 1.3¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.