# Hermes Agent

> Open-source Nous Research agent with memory, tools, skills, and messaging gateways.

## Core Metadata

- **Category:** AI Agents
- **Pricing Model:** Freemium
- **Last Verified:** July 2026

## Detailed Pricing

Hermes Agent is free and MIT licensed to install. Costs depend on how you run it: self-hosting resources, BYOK API usage, or optional Nous Portal subscription tiers for unified model and tool access.

- **Open Source:** Free
- **BYOK Providers:** Custom
- **Nous Portal:** Custom


### Other Pricing Notes

- The Hermes Agent codebase is open source under the MIT license.
- Actual usage cost depends on model providers, tools, hosting, and message volume.
- Nous Portal is optional; check public pricing before buying.


- **Official Pricing:** https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/integrations/nous-portal

## About the Tool

Hermes Agent is an open-source AI agent from Nous Research built for people who want a persistent agent instead of a one-off chatbot. It runs through desktop, CLI, messaging apps, servers, or cloud backends, then keeps memory, project context, skills, and tool configuration across sessions.

The product is strongest for technical users who want an agent that can live outside a single IDE. Hermes can work through Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, email, CLI, and other gateways, while using tools for web search, browsing, image generation, TTS, voice mode, MCP servers, cron scheduling, terminals, and sandboxed execution.

Its learning loop is the main difference. Hermes can create reusable skills from prior work, use persistent memory, manage context files, delegate to subagents, and route across model providers such as Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, or compatible endpoints. That makes it useful for research, coding support, scheduled reports, lightweight operations, and personal automation.

Hermes is not the easiest beginner AI app. Setup, provider selection, API keys, model costs, tool approvals, and cloud hosting choices still matter. It is best for developers, founders, and power users who want a flexible self-hostable agent with serious control rather than a polished consumer assistant.

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