Model comparison
Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Hermes 4 405B
Claude Sonnet 5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#10); Hermes 4 405B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads 52.4 to 25.3.
- Hermes 4 405B is cheaper at $1 / $3 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $10 for Claude Sonnet 5.5.
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.
- Hermes 4 405B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Hermes 4 405B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Nous Research |
| Noometry Index | 60.5 | 37.1 |
| Released | 2026-09-28 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1M | 131K |
| Max output | 128K | 118K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2 | $1 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | $3 |
| Results tracked | 16 | 2 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 65.5 (#6), Hermes 4 405B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Hermes 4 405B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode | 52.1% | — |
| CursorBench | 55.5% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1699 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 61.9% | — |
| SciCode | 61% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 1,819 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 44.9 (#14), Hermes 4 405B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Hermes 4 405B |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 75.5% | — |
Reasoning Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 52.4 (#29), Hermes 4 405B: 25.3
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Hermes 4 405B |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 55.8% |
| CritPt | 31.4% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 65% | — |
Math Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 88.7 (#4), Hermes 4 405B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Hermes 4 405B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 88.8% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 80.5% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 100% | — |
| ProofBench | 100% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#11), Hermes 4 405B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Hermes 4 405B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 95.6% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 46.5% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 53.2 (#5), Hermes 4 405B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Hermes 4 405B |
|---|---|---|
| Furniture Assembly | 75% | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: —, Hermes 4 405B: 53.0
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Hermes 4 405B |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1421 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 better than Hermes 4 405B?
Claude Sonnet 5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#10); Hermes 4 405B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 5.5 or Hermes 4 405B?
Hermes 4 405B is cheaper. It lists at $1 per million input tokens and $3 per million output tokens; Claude Sonnet 5.5 lists at $2 and $10.
Which has the bigger context window?
Claude Sonnet 5.5 does, with 1M tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Hermes 4 405B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5.5 has 16 scored results on Noometry and Hermes 4 405B has 2.