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Hermes 3 70B Instruct vs MiniMax M2

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Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · Hermes 3 70B Instruct · MiniMax M2 are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
Hermes 3 70B Instruct
#200 by perf·no signal
QUIET
MiniMax M2
#20 by perf·#11 by attention
UNDERRATED
Best value
1.7x better value than Hermes 3 70B Instruct
Hermes 3 70B Instruct
55.0 pts/$
$0.70/M
MiniMax M2
92.7 pts/$
$0.75/M
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
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nousresearch
private · undisclosed
Unknown
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MiniMax
$4.0B·Tier 1
Higher risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
nousresearch logoHermes 3 70B Instruct$0.70$0.70131K tokens (~66 books)$7.00
minimax logoMiniMax M2$0.30$1.20205K tokens (~102 books)$5.25