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Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 vs Hermes 3 405B Instruct

Detailed technical comparison between Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 (Google) and Hermes 3 405B Instruct (Nous Research). Review live API token pricing, context window capabilities, time-to-first-token latency, and verified benchmark scores side-by-side.

⚡ Executive Summary & Verdict

Comparison Snapshot

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06: 6 WinsvsHermes 3 405B Instruct: 0 Wins

Context Leader

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06

1,048,576 tokens

Agentic Tool-Calling

Tie

Equal Capability

Lowest Latency (TTFT)

Tie

Equal Speed

Input Price Leader

Hermes 3 405B Instruct

$1.00 / MTok

Googleactive

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06

Gemini 2.5 Pro is Google’s state-of-the-art AI model designed for advanced reasoning, coding, mathematics, and scientific tasks. It employs “thinking” capabilities, enabling it to reason through responses with enhanced accuracy...

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Nous Researchactive

Hermes 3 405B Instruct

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...

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Technical Specifications

🏆 = Superior Spec

Specification	Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06	Hermes 3 405B Instruct
Provider	Google	Nous Research
Context Window	1,048,576 tokens🏆	131,072 tokens
Agent Suitability	N/A	N/A
Time to First Token (TTFT)	N/A	N/A
Deployment Model	managed api	self hostable
Production Stability	beta	stable
API Available	Yes	Yes
Released Date	2025-05-07	2024-08-16

API Pricing Comparison

Input Price per Million Tokens

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06

$1.25

Hermes 3 405B Instruct

$1.00

Output Price per Million Tokens

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06

$10.00

Hermes 3 405B Instruct

$1.00

💡 Cost Ratio: Hermes 3 405B Instruct is 1.3x cheaper per input token than Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06.

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Benchmark Performance Metrics

Standardized Scores (0–100%)

Scores show verified raw accuracy percentages across standardized AI evaluation suites. Higher bars indicate superior performance in that domain.

MMLUGeneral knowledge & multi-task understanding

86.4%vs78.8%+7.6% Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06