Hermes 3 70B Instruct vs GLM 4.6

Hermes 3 70B Instruct at $0.805 in and $0.805 out and GLM 4.6 at $0.575 in and $2.30 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Hermes 3 70B Instruct

Nous Research

0.47¢

for a client proposal

$0.805 in · $0.805 out / 1M

131K context · released August 2024

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GLM 4.6

Z.ai

0.47¢

for a client proposal

$0.575 in · $2.30 out / 1M

203K context · released September 2025

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.94¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: GLM 4.6 at $0.575 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Hermes 3 70B Instruct at $0.805 per million tokens.
Largest context: GLM 4.6 at 203K tokens — about 290 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 70B Instruct

0.2¢

GLM 4.6

0.23¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Hermes 3 70B Instruct

0.47¢

GLM 4.6

0.47¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Hermes 3 70B Instruct

needs 155K ctx

GLM 4.6

$0.10

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Hermes 3 70B Instruct

2.9¢

GLM 4.6

2.2¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Hermes 3 70B Instruct

needs 250K ctx

GLM 4.6

needs 250K ctx

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 70B Instruct

GLM 4.6

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

Hermes 3 70B Instruct

GLM 4.6

Input / 1M tokens

$0.805

$0.575

Output / 1M tokens

$0.805

$2.30

Cached input / 1M

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$0.115

Specs

Hermes 3 70B Instruct

GLM 4.6

Provider

Nous Research

Z.ai

Released

August 2024

September 2025

Context window

131K

203K

Max output

16K

131K

Input

Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

2023-12-31

2025-03-31

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Hermes 3 70B Instruct

Nous Research

0.2¢

for this task

80% input · 20% output

Full pricing →

GLM 4.6

Z.ai

0.23¢

for this task

50% input · 50% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.43¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 1,159 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, GLM 4.6 has the largest context window here — 203K tokens.

On price, Hermes 3 70B Instruct is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.47¢.

If you want to watch the model think, GLM 4.6 shows reasoning; the other answers directly.

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 →

Hermes 3 70B Instruct pricing →GLM 4.6 pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Hermes 3 70B Instruct or GLM 4.6?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Hermes 3 70B Instruct at 0.47¢; GLM 4.6 at 0.47¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

GLM 4.6 — 203K tokens, about 290 pages.

Can I run Hermes 3 70B Instruct and GLM 4.6 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 0.94¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.94¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.