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title: "Hermes Agent pricing, platforms and integrations"
description: "Nous Research's open source general purpose agent with a terminal TUI, file and shell tools, git worktrees and subagents. Any provider, or a Nous Portal login for 300 plus models."
canonical_url: "https://whichcoding.tools/tools/hermes"
---
# Hermes Agent

> Nous Research's open source general purpose agent with a terminal TUI, file and shell tools, git worktrees and subagents. Any provider, or a Nous Portal login for 300 plus models.

- **Layer**: Terminal agent
- **Vendor**: Nous Research
- **Platforms**: macOS, Windows, Linux, Android
- **License**: MIT
- **Pricing**: Free tier
- **Status**: Active
- **JSON**: /api/v1/tools/hermes.json

## Links

- [Website](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com)
- [Pricing](https://portal.nousresearch.com)
- [Repo](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent)
- [Docs](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/)
- [Changelog](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases)
- [Discord](https://discord.gg/NousResearch)

## Pricing

| Plan | Price | Included | Beyond that | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Open source (individual) | Free | — | — | Your own keys or a free Nous Portal account with standard rate limits |
| Nous Portal Plus (individual) | $20/mo (per user) | $22/mo. $22 of monthly credits with a $10 rollover cap | Credit packs. Top up $10 to $200 of credits at a time. | High rate limits, hosted tool usage through the Tool Gateway |
| Nous Portal Super (individual) | $100/mo (per user) | $110/mo. $110 of monthly credits with a $50 rollover cap | Credit packs | — |
| Nous Portal Ultra (individual) | $200/mo (per user) | $220/mo. $220 of monthly credits with a $100 rollover cap | Credit packs | — |

The agent is free. Nous Portal is an optional subscription that bundles inference plus web search, image generation, text to speech and a cloud browser. The docs describe Hermes as an autonomous assistant rather than a coding copilot, it also runs as a gateway on Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal and email. Windows installs with a PowerShell one liner.

Source: [portal.nousresearch.com](https://portal.nousresearch.com), verified 2026-09-23.

## Works with

What Hermes Agent runs, and what can run Hermes Agent. "With your existing login" means the wrapped tool's subscription is reused, no second bill.

### Runs inside

- [agent-manager](https://whichcoding.tools/tools/agent-manager) (via CLI, Free with your existing login): Go terminal UI on tmux that runs Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini and other agent CLIs side by side, with live status in one list and diff comments sent back to the agent.
- [Multica](https://whichcoding.tools/tools/multica) (via CLI, Free with your existing login): Self-hostable platform that assigns issues to AI coding agent CLIs like Claude Code and Codex, and tracks their work in one workspace.

## Models

- **Providers**: Vendor models, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, Mistral, DeepSeek, Moonshot, Alibaba, Zhipu, MiniMax, OpenRouter
- **Bring your own key**: BYOK
- **Local models**: Yes
- **Signs in with**: Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, SuperGrok

Nous Portal is one OAuth login across 300 plus hosted models. The providers page also lists Claude Max over OAuth, ChatGPT over the Codex device flow, GitHub Copilot, SuperGrok, and Ollama, vLLM, llama.cpp, LM Studio, SGLang or any OpenAI compatible endpoint. Switch with hermes model.

## Features

- **Git worktrees**: One isolated checkout per task
- **Parallel agents**: Several agents running at once
- **Subagents**: The agent can delegate to child agents
- **MCP client**: Connects to MCP servers
- **Browser automation**: Drives a browser to verify UI
- **Sandboxing**: Runs commands in an isolated sandbox
- **Remote execution**: Runs on a remote machine or over SSH
- **Scheduled tasks**: Automations that run on a schedule
- **Plugins**: Extensible through plugins or a marketplace

## Install

- **curl**: `curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash`
- **download**: [hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/)

## License

- **SPDX**: MIT
- **Kind**: Open source
- **Repo**: [github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent)

## Sources

Every fact above points at a vendor page and the date someone last checked it.

| Source | Covers | Verified |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [portal.nousresearch.com](https://portal.nousresearch.com) | pricing | 2026-09-23 |
| [github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent) | platforms, models, features, license, general | 2026-08-23 |
| [hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/integrations/providers](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/integrations/providers) | models | 2026-08-23 |
| [hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/cli](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/cli) | features | 2026-08-23 |
| [hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/features/tools](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/features/tools) | features | 2026-08-23 |

Source data: [content/tools/hermes.yml](https://github.com/benjamincanac/whichcodingtools/blob/main/content/tools/hermes.yml)

## Related

- [Compare Hermes Agent with another tool](https://whichcoding.tools/compare?tools=hermes)
- [All terminal agents](https://whichcoding.tools/layers/harness)
- [Everything on Claude](https://whichcoding.tools/plans/claude)
- [Everything on ChatGPT](https://whichcoding.tools/plans/chatgpt)
- [Everything on GitHub Copilot](https://whichcoding.tools/plans/copilot)
- [Everything on SuperGrok](https://whichcoding.tools/plans/grok)

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