AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Hermes 4
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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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Llama▲3123.1-405B: an open source model to rival GPT-4o / Claude-3.5
2024 · developer.meta.com · its alternatives →
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DeepHermes 3▲111Intuitive responses and deep reasoning, in one model
2025 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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Llama 4▲422A new era of natively multimodal AI innovation
2025 · developer.meta.com · its alternatives →
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Google Gemma 4▲437Google's most intelligent open models to date
Apr 2026 · blog.google · its alternatives →
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I spent a lot of time and money on this rather big side project of mine that attempts to replicate the mechanistic interpretability research on proprietary LLMs that was quite popular this year and produced great research papers by Anthropic [1], OpenAI [2] and Deepmind [3]. I am quite proud of this project and since I consider myself the target audience for HackerNews did I think that maybe some of you would appreciate this open research replication as well. Happy to answer any questions or face any feedback. Cheers [1]…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hermes Desktop▲215An open source terminal agent that builds its own skills
Jun 2026 · hermes-agent.nousresearch.com · its alternatives →
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Llama 2▲263The next generation of Meta's open source LLM
2023 · developer.meta.com · its alternatives →
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Qwen's most advanced reasoning model yet
2025 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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Claude Opus 4.7 is Anthropic's most capable generally available model, released April 16, 2026. It outperforms Opus 4.6, GPT-5.4, and Gemini 3.1 Pro on key benchmarks including agentic coding, multidisciplinary reasoning, scaled tool use, and agentic computer use. It is benchmarked below Claude Mythos Preview — which remains restricted to Project Glasswing partners. https://vucense.com/ai-intelligence/ai-tools/claude-opus-4-7...
2025 · anthropic.com · its alternatives →
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Meta Llama 3▲159The most capable openly available LLM to date
2024 · ai.meta.com · its alternatives →
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Llama 3.3 70B▲347Llama 405B-level performance, at a fraction of the cost
2024 · developer.meta.com · its alternatives →
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NativeMind▲468Your fully private, open-source, on-device AI assistant
2025 · nativemind.app · its alternatives →
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Transform generic AI models into specialized solutions
2025 · tokenfactory.nebius.com · its alternatives →
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Social intelligence plugin for Hermes Agent
Jul 2026 · humalike.ai · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, We've been building a multi-model API for LLMs called OpenRouter since we launched the Window AI extension in April this year [0]. The events of the last week make it clear the LLM landscape is unpredictable, so LLM aggregators are picking up interest. Unlike others, we're making a router on top of a public, explorable dataset. We recently built a way to rank and visualize this data, including the token counts we see going to and from different models, both open-sourced (like Llama, Mistral, finetunes, and variants) and closed-sourced (OpenAI, Anthropic). The API supports - 50+…
Apr 2026 · openrouter.ai · its alternatives →
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LLM Gatewayfree tier▲296I built an OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway that routes requests to OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, vLLM, llama-server, SGLang... anything that speaks /v1/chat/completions. Single Go binary, one YAML config file, no infrastructure. It does the things you'd expect from this kind of gateway... semantic routing via a three-layer cascade (keyword heuristics, embedding similarity, LLM classifier) that picks the best model when clients omit the model field, weighted round-robin load balancing across local inference servers with health checks and failover. The part I think is most…
2025 · llmgateway.io · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! The day has finally come to stop adding features and start sharing what I've been building the last 5-6 months. It's a bit of CrewAI, OpenDevon, LangFuse/Cloud all in one, providing devs who prefer TypeScript an integrated framework thats provides a lot out of the box to start experimenting and building agents with. It started after peeking at the LangChain docs a few times and never liking the example code. I began experimenting with automating a simple Jira request from the engineering team to add an index to one of our Google Spanner databases (for context I'm the…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Advanced Visual Reasoning & Agentic Tool Use
2025 · openai.com · its alternatives →
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Run leading vision models locally with the new engine
2025 · ollama.com · its alternatives →
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Open AI o3 API▲141Advanced reasoning models with safety-first innovation.
2024 · openai.com · its alternatives →
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