Hermes 3 405B - NC Bench

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Hermes 3 405B

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Release Date

Aug 15th, 2024

Context Size

128k

Reasoning

Benchmark Cost

$2.57

Speed

19.3 tok/s

Subcategories

Bad Writing Habits

Detects common prose quality anti-patterns in AI-generated creative writing, including passive voice, past progressive overuse, weak dialogue tags, filter words, purple prose, cliches, AI-ism words/adverbs/names, and more.

Scenario	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	Total
Detailed Writing Rules
Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin Creative Writing Hallucination	87	77	76	73	72	77%
Horror: alone in an eerie place at night Creative Writing Hallucination	86	86	86	80	69	81%
Literary fiction: old friends reunite Creative Writing Hallucination	93	86	86	84	76	85%
Mystery: examining a crime scene Creative Writing Hallucination	91	88	83	82	79	84%
Romance: separated couple reunites Creative Writing Hallucination	88	87	87	81	76	84%
Thriller: chase through city streets Creative Writing Hallucination	90	89	85	80	78	84%
Detailed Writing Rules						82.61%
genre
Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin Creative Writing Hallucination	85	85	80	78	73	80%
Horror: alone in an eerie place at night Creative Writing Hallucination	85	78	77	71	69	76%
Literary fiction: old friends reunite Creative Writing Hallucination	83	80	78	76	73	78%
Mystery: examining a crime scene Creative Writing Hallucination	88	86	82	78	76	82%
Romance: separated couple reunites Creative Writing Hallucination	82	81	80	79	77	80%
Thriller: chase through city streets Creative Writing Hallucination	88	83	83	76	75	81%
genre						79.52%
Novelcrafter Default Prompt
Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin Creative Writing Hallucination	88	78	76	72	68	76%
Horror: alone in an eerie place at night Creative Writing Hallucination	87	86	83	80	75	82%
Literary fiction: old friends reunite Creative Writing Hallucination	88	83	83	81	73	82%
Mystery: examining a crime scene Creative Writing Hallucination	88	85	84	79	74	82%
Romance: separated couple reunites Creative Writing Hallucination	87	85	76	75	68	78%
Thriller: chase through city streets Creative Writing Hallucination	79	78	76	73	70	75%
Novelcrafter Default Prompt						79.28%
80.47%

Codex Extraction

Evaluates a model's ability to extract structured codex entries (characters, locations, objects, lore) from prose passages and return them as well-formed XML.

Scenario	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	Total
Long: The Spire of Echoes (Dense) Tooling Reasoning	94	93	93	92	90	93%
Medium: The Hollow (Inferred) Tooling Reasoning	94	92	92	89	89	91%
Medium: Through the Thornveil (Scattered) Tooling Reasoning	94	93	93	93	90	93%
Short: The Rusty Lantern (Explicit) Tooling Reasoning	99	99	99	98	98	99%
93.74%

Codex Red Herring (False Positive Detection)

Tests whether models correctly report "no violations" when a codex is fully consistent with the prose passage. Models that hallucinate false violations (false positives) fail. Uses a 2×2 matrix of text length × codex size, with bare and detailed-entry variants.

Scenario	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	#7	#8	#9	#10	Total
basic entries
Long text (~1594 words), big codex (51 entries) Hallucination	100	100	17	17	13	10	10	8	6	6	29%
Long text (~1594 words), small codex (11 entries) Hallucination	100	25	17	13	13	13	10	10	10	8	22%
Short text (~524 words), big codex (51 entries) Hallucination	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	25	17	10	75%
Short text (~524 words), small codex (11 entries) Hallucination	100	100	100	100	17	17	17	17	13	8	49%
basic entries											43.58%
detailed entries
Long text (~1594 words), big codex (51 detailed entries) Hallucination	38	17	17	17	13	13	10	10	7	6	15%
Long text (~1594 words), small codex (11 detailed entries) Hallucination	100	100	17	13	13	13	13	10	10	10	30%
Short text (~524 words), big codex (51 detailed entries) Hallucination	100	17	13	13	13	13	10	10	7	6	20%
Short text (~524 words), small codex (11 detailed entries) Hallucination	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	17	13	13	74%
detailed entries											34.59%
39.09%

Codex Violation Detection

Detects factual inconsistencies between a story bible and prose passages. The model must output structured XML identifying each violation with paragraph number and substring.

Scenario	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	#7	#8	#9	#10	Total
matrix
Large codex (40 entries), long passage (1,019 words) Tooling Reasoning	73	70	64	58	55	55	55	51	50	47	58%
Large codex (40 entries), short passage (165 words) Tooling Reasoning	82	80	78	76	75	74	69	66	66	60	73%
Small codex (7 entries), long passage (734 words) Tooling Reasoning	84	80	76	75	71	71	71	70	70	70	74%
Small codex (7 entries), short passage (165 words) Tooling Reasoning	100	100	100	97	97	97	97	93	92	87	96%
matrix											75.03%
tiers
5 codex entries Tooling Reasoning	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100%
10 codex entries Tooling Reasoning	100	94	89	86	86	86	86	86	79	40	83%
20 codex entries Tooling Reasoning	94	91	86	81	77	73	69	61	60	58	75%
40 codex entries Tooling Reasoning	83	83	83	83	80	75	72	71	70	70	77%
tiers											83.88%
79.45%

Data extraction

Extract key details from a given block of text.

Scenario	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	#7	#8	#9	#10	Total
All valid emails Utility	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100%
Contextual pronoun Utility	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100%
Fruits excluding citrus Utility	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	0	0	80%
Future event time Reasoning	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50%
Guess the pet Reasoning	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100%
Highest-rated movie Reasoning	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	50	95%
Indirect birth year Reasoning	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	0	0	80%
What instrument does Lucy play? Reasoning	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100%
What's the color of the car? Utility	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100%
What's the correct time? Reasoning	100	100	100	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	30%
Who's the sister? Reasoning	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100%
Who's the tallest? Reasoning	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100%
86.25%

Dialogue tags

Various tasks related to dialogue tags in text.

Scenario	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	#7	#8	#9	#10	Total
dialogue-200
Write 200 words with 10% dialogue Rule Following Utility	50	50	45	41	38	34	7	5	0	0	27%
Write 200 words with 50% dialogue Rule Following Utility	96	85	82	55	54	51	41	26	22	1	51%
Write 200 words with 90% dialogue Rule Following Utility	60	55	51	51	45	41	34	26	14	10	39%
dialogue-200											38.95%
dialogue-500
Write 500 words with 30% dialogue Rule Following Utility	50	45	41	34	30	10	1	0	0	0	21%
Write 500 words with 50% dialogue Rule Following Utility	49	45	38	31	5	1	0	0	0	0	17%
Write 500 words with 70% dialogue Rule Following Utility	44	36	15	11	2	0	0	0	0	0	11%
dialogue-500											16.29%
Ungrouped
Write unattributed dialogue Rule Following	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100%
37.96%

Language Comprehension

Does the model understand more than just English?

Scenario	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	Total
Asking for directions (Dutch) Language	100	100	100	100	100	100%
Asking for directions (German) Language	100	100	100	100	100	100%
Friend got new kittens (German) Language	100	100	100	100	100	100%
Friend got new kittens (Tagalog) Language	100	100	100	100	100	100%
100.00%

Language Writing

Can the model generate text in different languages?

Scenario	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	Total
Character dialogue (French) in a story Language	100	100	100	100	100	100%
Character dialogue (German) in a story Language	100	100	100	100	91	98%
Character dialogue (Hindi) in a story Language	100	100	100	100	88	98%
Character dialogue (Italian) in a story Language	100	100	100	100	100	100%
Character dialogue (Spanish) in a story Language	100	100	100	100	100	100%
99.14%

N-Length Sentences

Write sentences with exactly N words

Scenario	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	#7	#8	#9	#10	Total
Write sentences with 5 words each Utility	90	90	88	87	85	84	83	80	76	69	83%
Write sentences with 10 words each Utility	97	97	92	92	88	87	87	87	84	67	88%
Write sentences with 20 words each Utility	20	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4%
58.24%

Novel outline

Handle questions about the outline of a novel in various formats

Scenario	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	#7	#8	#9	#10	Total
outline-count
Count acts Utility	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100%
Count chapters Utility	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100%
Count scenes Utility	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0%
outline-count											66.67%
pov-count
Count point of views for Jack and Olivia Utility	50	50	50	50	50	50	0	0	0	0	30%
Count point of views for Jack Harper Utility	100	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10%
Count point of views for Olivia Utility	100	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10%
pov-count											16.67%
41.67%

Text Replacement

Tests deterministic text transformations: renaming characters/locations, expanding contractions, tense rewriting, POV shifts, gender swaps, combined transformations, and word avoidance. Scored by checking each expected change independently.

Scenario	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	#7	Total
Generic Prompt
Avoid said/asked/replied/answered Text Editing	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100%
Character rename: Elena->Mirabel, Gregor->Aldric Text Editing	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100%
Combined: 3rd person past → 1st person present Text Editing	99	99	99	99	99	99	99	99%
Expand all contractions Text Editing	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100%
Location rename: market square, outer ring, bridge, northern mines Text Editing	100	100	100	100	100	96	96	99%
Multi-character gender swap: Priya(F)->Rohan(M), Mara unchanged Text Editing	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100%
Passive voice → active voice Text Editing Hallucination	79	78	78	78	76	76	75	77%
POV shift: 3rd person to 1st person (Elena's perspective) Text Editing	100	100	100	100	100	100	68	95%
Tense rewriting: past to present Text Editing	93	93	93	93	93	89	85	91%
Generic Prompt								95.74%
Specific Prompt
Avoid said/asked/replied/answered Text Editing	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100%
Character rename: Elena->Mirabel, Gregor->Aldric Text Editing	100	100	100	100	100	100	33	90%
Combined: 3rd person past → 1st person present Text Editing	99	99	99	99	99	99	99	99%
Expand all contractions Text Editing	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100%
Location rename: market square, outer ring, bridge, northern mines Text Editing	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100%
Multi-character gender swap: Priya(F)->Rohan(M), Mara unchanged Text Editing	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100%
Passive voice → active voice Text Editing Hallucination	98	98	97	96	95	94	78	94%
POV shift: 3rd person to 1st person (Elena's perspective) Text Editing	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100%
Tense rewriting: past to present Text Editing	100	100	100	100	100	97	97	99%
Specific Prompt								98.00%
96.87%

Tool usage within Novelcrafter

Output messages that are related to tool usage within Novelcrafter

Scenario	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	#7	#8	#9	#10	Total
Create alternate prose sections Tooling	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100%
100.00%

Voice/dialogue sheets

Extract dialogue from given text as voice sheets.

Scenario	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	#7	#8	#9	#10	Total
Multiple speakers Rule Following	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0%
Simple Rule Following	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100%
Simple (1-shot) 1-shot Rule Following	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	0	90%
Simple (5-shot) Few-shot Rule Following	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100%
Unattributed dialogue Rule Following	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0%
58.00%

Write N of X

Write exactly N words/sentences/paragraphs...

Scenario	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	#7	#8	#9	#10	Total
paragraphs
1 paragraph summary Utility	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100%
3 paragraph summary Utility	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	0	90%
5 paragraph summary Utility	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	0	0	0	70%
paragraphs											86.67%
sentences
1 sentence summary Utility	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100%
3 sentence summary Utility	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100%
10 sentence summary Utility	98	98	92	92	92	92	77	77	77	2	80%
20 sentence summary Utility	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	0	0	0	70%
50 sentence summary Utility	100	100	100	100	100	0	0	0	0	0	50%
sentences											79.99%
words
10 word summary Utility	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	98	98	54	95%
20 word summary Utility	100	100	100	100	100	100	98	92	92	0	88%
50 word summary Utility	100	98	98	98	92	77	27	9	2	0	60%
100 word summary Utility	100	100	98	98	77	77	27	0	0	0	58%
200 word summary Utility	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0%
words											60.29%
73.95%