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DiffusionGemma vs Hermes 3 405B Instruct
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated September 2026
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| Organization | ||
| OpenTools Score | 29 | |
| Family | Gemma | Hermes |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Jun 2026 | Aug 2024 |
| Context Window | 256K tokens | 131K tokens |
| Input Price | — | — |
| Output Price | — | — |
| Pricing Notes | Google publishes open weights for local deployment. A hosted API price has not been verified; hosting and infrastructure costs depend on the provider or deployment. | Free tier available on OpenRouter with rate limits |
| Capabilities | textvisioncodereasoninglocal-inference | textcode |
| API Identifier | google/diffusiongemma-26b-a4b-it | nousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-405b:free |
| Benchmarks | ||
| MMLU Pro | 77.6official-google-model-card | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 73.2official-google-model-card | — |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 69.1official-google-model-card | — |
| MMMLU | 81.5official-google-model-card | — |
| HLE no tools | 11official-google-model-card | — |
| MMLU | — | 87.3openrouter |
| HumanEval | — | 84.9openrouter |
| View DiffusionGemma | View Hermes 3 405B Instruct | |
DiffusionGemma
DiffusionGemma is Google DeepMind’s experimental open-weights text-diffusion model based on Gemma 4 26B A4B. It uses discrete diffusion and parallel canvas denoising to trade some benchmark quality for much faster local generation on dedicated GPUs.
Nous Research
Hermes 3 405B Instruct
Hermes 3 405B Instruct is a large language model from Nous Research. Supports up to 131,072 token context window. Achieves 87.3% on MMLU. Available free with rate limits on OpenRouter.
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