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Hermes 3 as an agent: function calling and tool use on your own server
Hermes 3 from Nous Research is a Llama 3.1 fine-tune tuned for function calling and role-based prompting. What it can do as an agent and why teams pick it over OpenAI when data cannot leave the perimeter.
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Hermes 3 8B vs OpenAI: cost and quality on typical workloads
When does it make sense to run your own Hermes 3 8B on an A10 vs paying OpenAI for gpt-4o-mini. Real numbers across three workloads: ticket classification, document summaries, function-calling agents.
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