As of August 30, 2026, Hermes 3 70B is 39% cheaper per million tokens than Kimi K2 Base. Hermes 3 70B is $0.35 / $1.40 per million input/output tokens versus Kimi K2 Base at $0.57 / $2.30. Sources: https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing and https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k2
Sources: AnotherWrapper LLM pricing (https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing); OpenRouter pricing (https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k2)
Hermes 3 70B
Nous Research
Input
$0.35
Output
$1.40
Kimi K2 Base
Moonshot AI
Input
$0.57
Output
$2.30
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Hermes 3 70BKimi K2 BaseVerdict
Hermes 3 70B offers significantly lower pricing, while Kimi K2 Base leads on benchmark performance. Your choice depends on whether cost efficiency or raw capability matters more for your use case.
As of August 30, 2026, Hermes 3 70B is 39% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. Hermes 3 70B costs $0.35 per million input tokens and $1.40 per million output tokens ($1.75 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). Kimi K2 Base costs $0.57 / $2.30 per million tokens ($2.87 blended). Sources: https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing and https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k2. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
Hermes 3 70B Nous Research API pricing is $0.35 input and $1.40 output per million tokens via Nous Research. Kimi K2 Base OpenRouter API pricing is $0.57 input and $2.30 output per million tokens via OpenRouter. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
Neither Hermes 3 70B nor Kimi K2 Base has a published SWE-bench or LiveCodeBench score on this page yet. Use the comparison table for the evals that do exist.
Hermes 3 70B supports a 131K token context window, while Kimi K2 Base 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.
Kimi K2 Base leads on 3 of 4 shared benchmarks versus Hermes 3 70B's 1 wins. 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 Hermes 3 70B and Kimi K2 Base are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, Hermes 3 70B 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 Hermes 3 70B through Nous Research and Kimi K2 Base through OpenRouter 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 Nous Research API pricing and OpenRouter API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing and https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k2. 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.
Hermes 3 70B supports up to 16K output tokens per request, while Kimi K2 Base supports up to an unspecified number of 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 Hermes 3 70B nor Kimi K2 Base 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 Hermes 3 70B or Kimi K2 Base 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. Hermes 3 70B costs $0.35/M input and $1.40/M output. Kimi K2 Base costs $0.57/M input and $2.30/M output via OpenRouter.
Rank both on the LLM leaderboard, SWE-bench, and Humanity's Last Exam.
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