IndustryTuesday, October 6, 2026Trended 2 nights
Hermes Index: same harness, score and dollars per task
Nous Research launched Hermes Index, a mean of four suites run inside the same Hermes Agent harness with reasoning set high where the model offers it. Suites: new Hermes Bench (150 tasks, 25 categories: skills, research, diagrams and creation, memory, tool use, safety), Terminal-Bench 4.0, Terminal-Bench Science, and SkillsBench. Graders look at workspace files, task state, and tool use. Portal: https://portal.nousresearch.com/bench. Official first board: Claude Opus 5.5 at 63.31 and $4.99/task, GPT 6 Astra at 56.25 and $11.61, Sonnet 5.5 at 53.14 and $2.82. Cheap end from the same thread: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 36.91 at $0.26, Ling 3.0 Flash 21.56 at $0.054. Community recaps also put GPT 6 Sol near 44.10 / $2.23 and Grok 4.7 near 39.32 / $10.77, and flag some Opus and Sonnet cells as provisional. Treat those extras as secondary until checked on the portal.
Why it matters
This is the first public board that scores models on Hermes work, not a generic coding eval, and it prices the run. Operators can stop guessing which frontier tier is worth the bill.
