As of August 30, 2026, Gemma 4 E2B is 97% cheaper per million tokens than Hermes 3 70B. Gemma 4 E2B is $0.02 / $0.04 per million input/output tokens versus Hermes 3 70B at $0.35 / $1.40. Sources: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing and https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing
Sources: Gemini API pricing (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing); AnotherWrapper LLM pricing (https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing)
Gemma 4 E2B
Input
$0.02
Output
$0.04
Hermes 3 70B
Nous Research
Input
$0.35
Output
$1.40
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Gemma 4 E2BHermes 3 70BVerdict
Both models are closely matched on benchmarks. Gemma 4 E2B has the pricing advantage, making it the better value unless Hermes 3 70B's specific capabilities are critical to your workflow.
As of August 30, 2026, Gemma 4 E2B is 97% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. Gemma 4 E2B costs $0.02 per million input tokens and $0.04 per million output tokens ($0.06 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). Hermes 3 70B costs $0.35 / $1.40 per million tokens ($1.75 blended). Sources: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing and https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
Gemma 4 E2B Gemini API pricing is $0.02 input and $0.04 output per million tokens via Google. Hermes 3 70B Nous Research API pricing is $0.35 input and $1.40 output per million tokens via Nous Research. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
Neither Gemma 4 E2B nor Hermes 3 70B has a published SWE-bench or LiveCodeBench score on this page yet. Use the comparison table for the evals that do exist.
Gemma 4 E2B supports a 131K token context window, while Hermes 3 70B supports 131K tokens. Both models have the same context window size. Filling a larger window bills more input tokens, so the cheaper-per-million model can still cost more on long documents.
Gemma 4 E2B and Hermes 3 70B are tied across 2 shared benchmarks. Check the table for category-level strengths. Check the comparison table for GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench, MMLU, HLE, and the other evals we track. Token price and benchmark score together are the usual LLM comparison, not either number alone.
Both Gemma 4 E2B and Hermes 3 70B are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, Gemma 4 E2B has better economics on the blended 1M-in + 1M-out scale. For maximum capability, weight the benchmark table for your domain. Many production stacks route cheap models for drafts and a frontier model for the hard turn, which is usually cheaper than sending everything to the expensive API.
Yes. Call Gemma 4 E2B through Google and Hermes 3 70B through Nous Research with separate API keys, or through a gateway that already wraps both. Keep prompts in tokens, not characters, when you estimate the invoice. AnotherWrapper templates can swap providers without rewriting auth and billing.
List rates are the latest published Gemini API pricing and Nous Research API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing and https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing. Prompt caching, batch APIs, and committed-use discounts can change the invoice. Benchmark scores are from official publications and independent evals, updated as new numbers land.
Gemma 4 E2B supports up to an unspecified number of output tokens per request, while Hermes 3 70B supports up to 16K output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.
Neither Gemma 4 E2B nor Hermes 3 70B has published throughput data on this page yet. Throughput (tokens per second) and time-to-first-token are why two models with the same per-million-token price can still feel different in chat and agents.
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open Gemma 4 E2B or Hermes 3 70B from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.
This comparison covers API pricing, context window, throughput, and benchmark scores. Gemma 4 E2B costs $0.02/M input and $0.04/M output. Hermes 3 70B costs $0.35/M input and $1.40/M output.
Rank both on the LLM leaderboard, SWE-bench, and Humanity's Last Exam.
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