Hermes 4 405B vs GPT-5.4 Mini

Hermes 4 405B at $1.15 in and $3.45 out and GPT-5.4 Mini at $0.863 in and $5.17 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Hermes 4 405B

Nous Research

0.85¢

for a client proposal

$1.15 in · $3.45 out / 1M

131K context · released August 2025

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GPT-5.4 Mini

OpenAI

0.85¢

for a client proposal

$0.863 in · $5.17 out / 1M

400K context · released 5 months ago

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 1.7¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: GPT-5.4 Mini at $0.863 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Hermes 4 405B at $3.45 per million tokens.
Largest context: GPT-5.4 Mini at 400K tokens — about 570 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 4 405B

0.4¢

GPT-5.4 Mini

0.43¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Hermes 4 405B

0.85¢

GPT-5.4 Mini

0.85¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Hermes 4 405B

needs 155K ctx

GPT-5.4 Mini

$0.15

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Hermes 4 405B

4.4¢

GPT-5.4 Mini

3.5¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Hermes 4 405B

needs 250K ctx

GPT-5.4 Mini

$0.23

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 4 405B

GPT-5.4 Mini

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Pricing

Hermes 4 405B

GPT-5.4 Mini

Input / 1M tokens

$1.15

$0.863

Output / 1M tokens

$3.45

$5.17

Cached input / 1M

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$0.086

Web search

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1.1¢ / search

Specs

Hermes 4 405B

GPT-5.4 Mini

Provider

Nous Research

OpenAI

Released

August 2025

5 months ago

Context window

131K

400K

Max output

—

128K

Input

Text

Files, Images, and Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

2024-08-31

2025-08-31

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Hermes 4 405B

Nous Research

0.4¢

for this task

57% input · 43% output

Full pricing →

GPT-5.4 Mini

OpenAI

0.43¢

for this task

40% input · 60% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.83¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 599 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, GPT-5.4 Mini has the largest context window here — 400K tokens.

On price, GPT-5.4 Mini is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.85¢.

For images or files, GPT-5.4 Mini can read them directly; Hermes 4 405B is text-only.

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 4 405B pricing →GPT-5.4 Mini pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Hermes 4 405B or GPT-5.4 Mini?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): GPT-5.4 Mini at 0.85¢; Hermes 4 405B at 0.85¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

GPT-5.4 Mini — 400K tokens, about 570 pages.

Can I run Hermes 4 405B and GPT-5.4 Mini 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 1.7¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 1.7¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.