Nous: Hermes 4 405B

Hermes 4 is a large-scale reasoning model built on Meta-Llama-3.1-405B and released by Nous Research. It introduces a hybrid reasoning mode, where the model can choose to deliberate internally with \u...

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INPUT PRICE

$1per 1M

OUTPUT PRICE

$3per 1M

CONTEXT

131.1K

RELEASED

Aug 27, 2025

Provider				Uptime	Chat
FastAPI	—	$1	$3

Capabilities

Input modalities

text

Output modalities

text

Features

frequency_penaltyinclude_reasoningmax_tokenspresence_penaltyreasoningrepetition_penaltyresponse_formattemperaturetop_ktop_p

Get your API key

Create an API key from the Keys page, then set it as an environment variable:

export ONLIST_API_KEY=sk-...

Make your first request

Endpoints

POSThttps://onlist.io/v1/chat/completions

OpenAI Chat Completions format

Request Headers

Authorization:Bearer $ONLIST_API_KEY

Content-Type:application/json

Model:nousresearch/hermes-4-405b

POSThttps://onlist.io/v1/responses

OpenAI Responses format

Request Headers

Authorization:Bearer $ONLIST_API_KEY

Content-Type:application/json

Model:nousresearch/hermes-4-405b

POSThttps://onlist.io/v1/messages

Anthropic Messages format

Request Headers

Authorization:Bearer $ONLIST_API_KEY

Content-Type:application/json

Model:nousresearch/hermes-4-405b

Code samples

curl https://onlist.io/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ONLIST_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
       "model": "nousresearch/hermes-4-405b",
       "messages": [
         {
           "role": "user",
           "content": "Explain quantum entanglement in one paragraph."
         }
       ]
     }'

Replace $ONLIST_API_KEY with the API key from your Keys page.

Authentication

All requests must include an Authorization: Bearer <TOKEN> header. Generate keys from the Keys page; keys can be scoped to specific models, groups, IP ranges, and rate limits.

Enable streaming

Add "stream": true to receive partial responses as server-sent events in real time.

Streaming example

curl https://onlist.io/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ONLIST_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
       "model": "nousresearch/hermes-4-405b",
       "messages": [
         {
           "role": "user",
           "content": "Write a haiku about recursion."
         }
       ],
       "stream": true
     }'

Supported parameters

Name	Type	Description
`frequency_penalty`	number	Penalizes new tokens based on their existing frequency in the text (-2.0 to 2.0).
`include_reasoning`
`max_tokens`	integer	Maximum number of tokens to generate in the completion.
`presence_penalty`	number	Penalizes new tokens based on whether they appear in the text so far (-2.0 to 2.0).
`reasoning`
`repetition_penalty`	number	Penalizes repeated tokens. Values > 1 discourage repetition.
`response_format`	object	Specifies the output format. Use {"type": "json_object"} for JSON mode.
`temperature`	number	Sampling temperature between 0 and 2. Higher values make output more random.
`top_k`	integer	Limits token selection to the k most likely candidates at each step.
`top_p`	number	Nucleus sampling. The model considers tokens with top_p probability mass.

These are the request parameters this model accepts. Parameter semantics follow the OpenAI Chat Completions specification.