---
title: "OpenRouter nousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-70b and 1 more expire 2026-11-02 | Harbyn"
description: "OpenRouter nousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-70b and 1 more expire 2026-11-02."
canonical: "https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-21-nousresearch-hermes-3-llama-3-1-70b-expires-2026-11-02"
last-updated: 2026-10-25
---

# OpenRouter nousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-70b and 1 more expire 2026-11-02

Markdown version of <https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-21-nousresearch-hermes-3-llama-3-1-70b-expires-2026-11-02>.

Retirement - OpenRouter. high severity. Announced. Upcoming.

The OpenRouter models API lists an expiration date of 2026-11-02 for nousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-70b, nousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-405b. After that date requests to these model ids are expected to fail on OpenRouter. No replacement is listed by the API.

8 days left: the deadline is Nov 2, 2026.

## Facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Vendor | [OpenRouter](https://harbyn.com/vendors/openrouter.md) |
| Product | models |
| Kind | Retirement |
| Severity | high |
| Status | Announced |
| Announced | Oct 21, 2026 (undated by the vendor; the day it first appeared) |
| Effective | Nov 2, 2026 |
| Added to Harbyn | Oct 25, 2026 |
| Lead time | 8 days of warning |
| Model IDs | `nousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-70b`, `nousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-405b` |
| Review | Reviewed by a person, extracted by a deterministic parser |

## Find it in your code

```sh
npx harbyn scan
```

The scanner reads your repository on your machine and reports every file and line that uses the identifiers above. Nothing leaves your machine.

## Sources

Where this event comes from: the page we read, when we read it, and the hash of that snapshot.

- <https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models> (spec, fetched 2026-10-21 14:31 UTC, sha256 `b17fc211fe65e4347e6808adbb2d35b4d2106aca90e690a81fcc5e66c6b89c9f`)

## Related changes

### More from OpenRouter

- [google/gemini-3.8-flash price change](https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-21-google-gemini-3-8-flash-price-change.md) (Pricing, announced Oct 21, 2026)
- [qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct price change](https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-21-qwen-qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct-price-change.md) (Pricing, announced Oct 21, 2026)
- [z-ai/glm-5.3-flash:batch price change](https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-21-z-ai-glm-5-3-flash-batch-price-change.md) (Pricing, announced Oct 21, 2026)
- [deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash:batch price change](https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-22-deepseek-deepseek-v4-1-flash-batch-price-change.md) (Pricing, announced Oct 22, 2026)

### Changes at other vendors

- [Google Cloud Run and Functions: Node.js 20 runtime decommission](https://harbyn.com/changes/google-cloud/2026-10-08-node-js-20-runtime-decommission.md) (effective Oct 30, 2026)
- [Mistral AI: Z.ai GLM 5.2 (zai-glm-5-2) retires on Mistral on October 31, 2026](https://harbyn.com/changes/mistral/2026-09-29-z-ai-glm-5-2-deprecated-and-scheduled-for-retirement.md) (effective Oct 31, 2026)
- [Fireworks AI: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 retires from Serverless Training November 2](https://harbyn.com/changes/fireworks/2026-10-18-upcoming-serverless-training-deprecation-deepseek-v4-flash-0731.md) (effective Nov 2, 2026)
- [GitHub: GitHub Actions: macOS 14 runner image retired on November 2, 2026](https://harbyn.com/changes/github/2026-10-01-github-actions-macos-14-runner-image-retirement.md) (effective Nov 2, 2026)

[All upcoming deadlines](https://harbyn.com/deadlines.md)
