Nous Hermes 3 70B Instruct vs Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is 1.9× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct accepts longer prompts: 262K vs 131K tokens.
- Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is the newer model (released 2025-10-14).
| Hermes 3 70B Instruct | Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Nous | Qwen |
| Released | 2024-08-18 | 2025-10-14 |
| Input / 1M | $0.70 | $0.25 |
| Output / 1M | $0.70 | $0.75 |
| Cached input / 1M | — | $0.12 |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.70 | $0.375 |
| Context | 131K | 262K |
| Max output | 16K | 236K |
| Accepts | text | text, image |
| Reasoning | No | No |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 1 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $0.70 | $0.75 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 99.86% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | — | Operational |
Cost calculator
Hermes 3 70B Instruct
$52.50 per month$1.75 per day
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
$26.25 per month$0.88 per day
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct saves $26.25 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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