Model Comparison

Hermes 3 70B vs Qwen2.5 14B Instruct

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct shows notably better performance in the majority of benchmarks.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

7 benchmarks

Hermes 3 70B outperforms in 2 benchmarks (GPQA, TruthfulQA), while Qwen2.5 14B Instruct is better at 5 benchmarks (ARC-C, BBH, MATH, MMLU, MMLU-Pro).

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct shows notably better performance in the majority of benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Cost data unavailable.

Lowest available price from all providers
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Nous Research
Hermes 3 70B
Input tokens$0.35
Output tokens$1.40
Best providerDeepinfra
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
Best providerUnknown Organization
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Model Size

Parameter count comparison

55.3B diff

Hermes 3 70B has 55.3B more parameters than Qwen2.5 14B Instruct, making it 376.2% larger.

Nous Research
Hermes 3 70B
70.0Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
14.7Bparameters
70.0B
Hermes 3 70B
14.7B
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Hermes 3 70B specifies input context (131,072 tokens). Only Hermes 3 70B specifies output context (16,384 tokens).

Nous Research
Hermes 3 70B
Input131,072 tokens
Output16,384 tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
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License

Usage and distribution terms

Both models are licensed under Apache 2.0.

Both models share the same licensing terms, providing consistent usage rights.

Hermes 3 70B

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Hermes 3 70B was released on 2024-08-15, while Qwen2.5 14B Instruct was released on 2024-09-19.

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct is 1 month newer than Hermes 3 70B.

Hermes 3 70B

Aug 15, 2024

1.7 years ago

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct

Sep 19, 2024

1.6 years ago

1mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

Nous Research
Larger context window (131,072 tokens)
Higher GPQA score (66.1% vs 45.5%)
Higher TruthfulQA score (63.3% vs 58.4%)
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Higher ARC-C score (67.3% vs 65.5%)
Higher BBH score (78.2% vs 67.8%)
Higher MATH score (80.0% vs 20.8%)
Higher MMLU score (79.7% vs 79.1%)
Higher MMLU-Pro score (63.7% vs 47.2%)

Detailed Comparison

AI Model Comparison Table
Feature
Nous Research
Hermes 3 70B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct

FAQ

Common questions about Hermes 3 70B vs Qwen2.5 14B Instruct

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct shows notably better performance in the majority of benchmarks. Hermes 3 70B is made by Nous Research and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct is made by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their benchmark scores, pricing, and capabilities above.
Hermes 3 70B scores MT-Bench: 89.9%, HellaSwag: 88.2%, BoolQ: 88.0%, PIQA: 84.4%, Winogrande: 83.2%. Qwen2.5 14B Instruct scores GSM8k: 94.8%, HumanEval: 83.5%, MBPP: 82.0%, MATH: 80.0%, MMLU-Redux: 80.0%.
Hermes 3 70B supports 131K tokens and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.
Hermes 3 70B is developed by Nous Research and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.