Hermes 3 405B Instruct vs Mistral Large vs Aya Expanse 32B

Mistral Large is the better all-round choice, scoring 45/100 against Aya Expanse 32B (32) and Hermes 3 405B Instruct (29). It leads on inputs & features. The score weighs price 50%, inputs & features 30%, context window 20%. None of the shared benchmarks cover every model here yet, so capability is left out of this verdict.

Mistral Large is cheaper at $0.50 input / $1.50 output per million tokens (official Mistral API price). Aya Expanse 32B costs $0.50 input / $1.50 output per million tokens (official Cohere API price); Hermes 3 405B Instruct costs $1.00 input / $1.00 output per million tokens (median across 5 API providers). At a typical mix of three input tokens to one output token, that is $0.75 per million tokens for Mistral Large versus $0.75 for Aya Expanse 32B (1× as much) and $1.00 for Hermes 3 405B Instruct (1.3× as much).

There is no independent benchmark that covers all three models yet. Hermes 3 405B Instruct has not been scored yet, Mistral Large has an ECI of 122.0 and Aya Expanse 32B has not been scored yet.

There are no published SWE-bench Verified results for Hermes 3 405B Instruct, Mistral Large and Aya Expanse 32B yet, so there is no like-for-like coding score. Test both on a sample of your own tasks. Note that Hermes 3 405B Instruct and Aya Expanse 32B does not support tool calling, which most coding agents need.

Hermes 3 405B Instruct has the largest context window at 131,072 tokens, against 128,000 for Mistral Large and 128,000 for Aya Expanse 32B. Maximum output per response: Hermes 3 405B Instruct up to 16,384, Mistral Large up to 102,400, Aya Expanse 32B up to 4,000 tokens.

Hermes 3 405B Instruct accepts text; Mistral Large accepts text and PDFs; Aya Expanse 32B accepts text. Mistral Large handles the widest range of inputs.

Hermes 3 405B Instruct and Aya Expanse 32B publishes its weights (CC-BY-NC-4.0) and can be self-hosted; Mistral Large is proprietary.

Aya Expanse 32B is the newest, released Oct 24, 2024. Hermes 3 405B Instruct came out Aug 16, 2024; Mistral Large came out Feb 26, 2024. Knowledge cutoff: Hermes 3 405B Instruct Dec 31, 2023, Mistral Large Nov 30, 2024.

Each model gets a 0–100 score on capability (50%, independent benchmark results); price (25%, blended price per million tokens (3 input : 1 output), log scale); inputs & features (15%, image, PDF, audio and video input, tool calling, structured output and reasoning); context window (10%, maximum tokens per request, log scale). Dimensions missing for any model are dropped and the remaining weights rescaled, so every model is judged on the same evidence. Specs and prices come from public model listings and the labs’ own API pages; capability scores come from independent benchmark runs. Data updated Nov 2, 2026.