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Hermes-3-Llama-3.2 is an open-weight language model from NousResearch. Hermes-3-Llama-3.2-3B (BF16) weighs 6.4 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.
Summary of the NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.2-3B model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | NousResearch |
|---|---|
| Released | 2024-12-03 |
| Parameters | 3.2B |
| VRAM | 6.4 GB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Requests at once | Context max | Memory | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8K each | 32K each | |||
| RTX 3060 12 GB | 4 | 1 | 38K | 11.6 GB |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | 8 | 2 | 70K | 15.4 GB |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | 17 | 4 | all 128K | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | 17 | 4 | all 128K | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | 25 | 6 | all 128K | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | 39 | 9 | all 128K | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | 75 | 18 | all 128K | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | 71 | 17 | all 128K | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | 88 | 22 | all 128K | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | 102 | 25 | all 128K | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | 135 | 33 | all 128K | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | 175 | 43 | all 128K | 176 GB |
| 2× RTX 3060 12 GB tensor parallel | 16 | 4 | all 128K | 11.6 GB a card |
| Requests at once | 8K tokens each | 32K tokens each |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8.0 GB | 10.9 GB |
| 5 | 11.8 GB | 25.9 GB |
| 8 | 14.6 GB | 37.2 GB |
| 16 | 22.1 GB | 67.2 GB |
| 32 | 37.2 GB | 127 GB |
| 64 | 67.2 GB | 248 GB |
One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.
From the model card
Hermes 3 3B is a small but mighty new addition to the Hermes series of LLMs by Nous Research, and is Nous's first fine-tune in this parameter class.
For details on Hermes 3, please see the Hermes 3 Technical Report.
Hermes 3 is a generalist language model with many improvements over Hermes 2, including advanced agentic capabilities, much better roleplaying, reasoning, multi-turn conversation, long context coherence, and improvements across the board.
Hermes 3 3B is a full parameter fine-tune of the Llama-3.2 3B foundation model, focused on aligning LLMs to the user, with powerful steering capabilities and control given to the end user.
The Hermes 3 series builds and expands on the Hermes 2 set of capabilities, including more powerful and reliable function calling and structured output capabilities, generalist assistant capabilities, and improved code generation skills.
Hermes 3 3B was trained on H100s on LambdaLabs GPU Cloud. Check out LambdaLabs' cloud offerings here.
Hermes 3 is competitive, if not superior, to Llama-3.1 Instruct models at general capabilities, with varying strengths and weaknesses attributable between the two.
| Tasks |Version|Filter|n-shot| Metric | |Value | |Stderr|
|-------------|------:|------|-----:|--------|---|-----:|---|-----:|
|arc_challenge| 1|none | 0|acc |↑ |0.4411|± |0.0145|
| | |none | 0|acc_norm|↑ |0.4377|± |0.0145|
|arc_easy | 1|none | 0|acc |↑ |0.7399|± |0.0090|
| | |none | 0|acc_norm|↑ |0.6566|± |0.0097|
|boolq | 2|none | 0|acc |↑ |0.8327|± |0.0065|
|hellaswag | 1|none | 0|acc |↑ |0.5453|± |0.0050|
| | |none | 0|acc_norm|↑ |0.7047|± |0.0046|
|openbookqa | 1|none | 0|acc |↑ |0.3480|± |0.0213|
| | |none | 0|acc_norm|↑ |0.4280|± |0.0221|
|piqa | 1|none | 0|acc |↑ |0.7639|± |0.0099|
| | |none | 0|acc_norm|↑ |0.7584|± |0.0100|
|winogrande | 1|none | 0|acc |↑ |0.6590|± |0.0133|
Average: 64.00
| Tasks |Version|Filter|n-shot| Metric | |Value | |Stderr|
|------------------------------|------:|------|-----:|--------|---|-----:|---|-----:|
|agieval_aqua_rat | 1|none | 0|acc |↑ |0.2283|± |0.0264|
| | |none | 0|acc_norm|↑ |0.2441|± |0.0270|
|agieval_logiqa_en | 1|none | 0|acc |↑ |0.3057|± |0.0181|
| | |none | 0|acc_norm|↑ |0.3272|± |0.0184|
|agieval_lsat_ar | 1|none | 0|acc |↑ |0.2304|± |0.0278|
| | |none | 0|acc_norm|↑ |0.1957|± |0.0262|
|agieval_lsat_lr | 1|none | 0|acc |↑ |0.3784|± |0.0215|
| | |none | 0|acc_norm|↑ |0.3588|± |0.0213|
|agieval_lsat_rc | 1|none | 0|acc |↑ |0.4610|± |0.0304|
| | |none | 0|acc_norm|↑ |0.4275|± |0.0302|
|agieval_sat_en | 1|none | 0|acc |↑ |0.6019|± |0.0342|
| | |none | 0|acc_norm|↑ |0.5340|± |0.0348|
|agieval_sat_en_without_passage| 1|none | 0|acc |↑ |0.3981|± |0.0342|
| | |none | 0|acc_norm|↑ |0.3981|± |0.0342|
|agieval_sat_math | 1|none | 0|acc |↑ |0.2500|± |0.0293|
| | |none | 0|acc_norm|↑ |0.2636|± |0.0298|
Average: 34.36
| Tasks |Version|Filter|n-shot| Metric | |Value | |Stderr|
|-------------------------------------------------------|------:|------|-----:|--------|---|-----:|---|-----:|
|leaderboard_bbh_boolean_expressions | 1|none | 3|acc_norm|↑ |0.7560|± |0.0272|
|leaderboard_bbh_causal_judgement | 1|none | 3|acc_norm|↑ |0.6043|± |0.0359|
|leaderboard_bbh_date_understanding | 1|none | 3|acc_norm|↑ |0.3280|± |0.0298|
|leaderboard_bbh_disambiguation_qa | 1|none | 3|acc_norm|↑ |0.5880|± |0.0312|
|leaderboard_bbh_formal_fallacies | 1|none | 3|acc_norm|↑ |0.5280|± |0.0316|
|leaderboard_bbh_geometric_shapes | 1|none | 3|acc_norm|↑ |0.3560|± |0.0303|
|leaderboard_bbh_hyperbaton | 1|none | 3|acc_norm|↑ |0.6280|± |0.0306|
|leaderboard_bbh_logical_deduction_five_objects | 1|none | 3|acc_norm|↑ |0.3400|± |0.0300|
|leaderboard_bbh_logical_deduction_seven_objects | 1|none | 3|acc_norm|↑ |0.2880|± |0.0287|
|leaderboard_bbh_logical_deduction_three_objects | 1|none | 3|acc_norm|↑ |0.4160|± |0.0312|
|leaderboard_bbh_movie_recommendation | 1|none | 3|acc_norm|↑ |0.6760|± |0.0297|
|leaderboard_bbh_navigate | 1|none | 3|acc_norm|↑ |0.5800|± |0.0313|
|leaderboard_bbh_object_counting | 1|none | 3|acc_norm|↑ |0.3640|± |0.0305|
|leaderboard_bbh_penguins_in_a_table | 1|none | 3|acc_norm|↑ |0.3836|± |0.0404|
|leaderboard_bbh_reasoning_about_colored_objects | 1|none | 3|acc_norm|↑ |0.3560|± |0.0303|
|leaderboard_bbh_ruin_names | 1|none | 3|acc_norm|↑ |0.4160|± |0.0312|
|leaderboard_bbh_salient_translation_error_detection | 1|none | 3|acc_norm|↑ |0.3080|± |0.0293|
|leadQuoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.