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Hermes

Everything for the Hermes agent: skills, integrations, self-hosting, and the best models to run it on.

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Model rankings:All rankings

Best cheap models for Hermes

1DeepSeek
DeepSeek V4

$0.435/M
2Gemini
Gemini 3 Flash

$0.5/M
3OpenAI
GPT-5.4 Mini

$0.75/M
4MoonshotAI
Kimi K2.5

$0.375/M
5Minimax
MiniMax-M3

$0.3/M
Full ranking

Best free models for Hermes

1OpenRouter
Owl Alpha

Free
2OpenRouter
Free Models Router

Free
3MoonshotAI
Kimi K2.6

$0.66/M
4Qwen
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B

$0.22/M
5L
Laguna M.1

$0.2/M
Full ranking

Best models for Hermes

1OpenAI
GPT-5.4

$2.5/M
2OpenAI
GPT-5.4 Mini

$0.75/M
3Claude
Claude Sonnet 4.6

$3/M
4Gemini
Gemini 3 Flash

$0.5/M
5DeepSeek
DeepSeek V4

$0.435/M
Full ranking

Best open-source models for Hermes

1MoonshotAI
Kimi K2.6

$0.66/M
2DeepSeek
DeepSeek V4

$0.435/M
3GLM 5.1 logo
GLM 5.1

$0.98/M
4Qwen
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B

$0.22/M
5M
MiMo-V2.5-Pro

$0.435/M
Full ranking
Guides & setup:

Installation

Install, set up, and run the agent.
1 page

Guides

Tips, workflows, and how-tos.
Coming soon

Integrations

Connect your agent to the skills you already use.
1 page

Self-hosting

Self-host, VPS, and hosting playbooks.
1 page

Weighing your options? See what Hermes costs to run and the best Hermes alternatives.

Skills for Hermes:All skills

find-skills

Official
Helps users discover and install agent skills when they ask questions like "how do I do X", "find a skill for X", "is there a skill that can...", or express in…
AI DevelopmentDeveloper Tools

frontend-design

Official
Create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality.
Design

vercel-react-best-practices

Official
React and Next.js performance optimization guidelines from Vercel Engineering.
Developer Tools

microsoft-foundry

Official
Deploy, evaluate, and manage Foundry agents end-to-end: Docker build, ACR push, hosted/prompt agent create, container start, batch eval, continuous eval, promp…
AI DevelopmentCloud Infrastructure

web-design-guidelines

Official
Review UI code for Web Interface Guidelines compliance.
Design

azure-ai

Official
Use for Azure AI: Search, Speech, OpenAI, Document Intelligence.
AI DevelopmentCloud Infrastructure
OpenRouter usage:
  • OpenRouter rank


    #1
  • Tokens per day


    814B
  • Models used


    380

See how Hermes stacks up against every other agent on the agent leaderboard.

Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/apps), as of 2026-06-10.

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  • Website


    hermes-agent.nousresearch.com
  • Self-hostable


    Yes
  • Verified skills


    98
  • OpenRouter rank


    #1
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