AI Personal Agents
Nous Research's open-source agent with memory and skills: free to run yourself, or $20 to $200 a month on Nous Portal.
Free plan: Free models only.
Paid: Plus $20, Super $100 and Ultra $200 a month, plus usage. API billed separately.
Prices checked November 9, 2026 on portal.nousresearch.comUSD as listed
Hermes Agent
From $20/mo + usage · Free plan
Plans and prices ↓Source: portal.nousresearch.com · USD as listed
| Plan | Monthly | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free plans | ||
| Free | Free | Free models only |
| Individual plans | ||
| Plus | $20 | Base usage, unpublished limits |
| Super | $100 | 5x Nous Portal Plus usage |
| Ultra | $200 | 10x Nous Portal Plus usage |
| API plans | ||
| Pay-as-you-go credits | Usage-based | — |
Nous Portal subscription · App subscription · Primary · From $20/mo
Nous Portal Plus ($20), Super ($100) and Ultra ($200) a month, billed monthly and cancellable any time, include Hermes Agent usage within daily, weekly and monthly limits, the Tool Gateway and one Cloud agent; Super gives five times Plus's usage and Ultra ten times.
Your own provider or ChatGPT plan · Direct API · Usage-based API
The MIT-licensed agent runs free with your own provider keys or local models, or on a ChatGPT plan, either signed in directly in Hermes or through Nous Portal plan sharing; ChatGPT's limits still apply, and Nous charges for other models, tools and Cloud hosting.
Nous Portal credits · Direct API · Usage-based API
A prepaid US-dollar balance pays for paid models at their per-token prices and for extra Hermes Cloud agents; Nous API keys always draw on it, and plan holders can keep going on it past their limits.
Hermes Business · Team workspace · Team pricing
One central balance funds a team on Nous's infrastructure, with per-member spend caps, hosted agents for every member and a shared skills library.
Hermes Enterprise · Enterprise sales · Custom
Hermes on infrastructure you control, on-premises or in a private cloud, with SSO, SLAs and onboarding, on a quote.
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Buyer guide
Hermes Agent sells 5 plans: 1 free, 3 individual, 1 API.
Includes: Free models only, at standard rate limits; the plan card lists no monthly credits, hosted tools or Cloud agent, though Nous's docs give free accounts managed web search. The Hermes Agent software itself is free under the MIT license with any provider.
Includes: Hermes Agent usage with free and paid models within limits that reset daily, weekly and monthly; Nous publishes no numbers, and pricier models use the allowance faster. Past a limit, switch to a free model, wait for the reset or keep going on pay-as-you-go credits. Includes the Tool Gateway. Nous API keys always use credits, not the plan.
Includes: Five times Plus's usage on Nous Portal, with the same daily, weekly and monthly resets; pricier models use it faster.
Includes: Ten times Plus's usage on Nous Portal, with the same daily, weekly and monthly resets; pricier models use it faster.
Includes: A prepaid US-dollar balance, topped up in steps such as $10, $20, $50, $100 or $200, spent at each model's per-token price. Nous API keys always draw on it, and extra or larger Hermes Cloud agents bill from it daily: compute by the second while running, plus storage.
AI Personal Agents
| Product | Free tier | Cheapest paid plan | Top plan | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manus | FreeSee plans on the tool page | $20See plans on the tool page | $200 | Prices checked |
| Meta Muse | Free | $20 | $100 | Prices checked |
| ChatGPT Dots | No free plan | From $100ChatGPT Pro plan access | — | Prices checked |
| Claude Duet | No free plan | From $17Claude Pro, Max or Ultra plan access | — | Prices checked |
| Grok Bot | No free plan | From $25The X Subscription Premium and up | — | Prices checked |
| Manus Cue | FreeSee plans on the tool page | See pricing | — | Last verified |
Hermes Agent is an open-source AI agent from Nous Research that runs on your own computer or server, or as an always-on agent in Nous's cloud. It keeps a persistent memory, writes reusable skills as it works, runs scheduled jobs and can hand tasks to subagents, and you reach the same agent from its desktop app, a terminal or messaging apps.
It suits people who want one long-running personal agent that remembers past work and acts on a schedule, and developers who want to pick their own models, from local ones to paid APIs. The caveat is that most of the cost sits in the model you connect: the agent is free, but Nous does not publish how much usage its subscriptions include, so the size of a plan's allowance is something you find out by using it.
There are three ways to pay. You can bring your own model provider, local models or an eligible ChatGPT plan and pay Nous nothing; top up prepaid Nous credits and pay per use; or subscribe to Nous Portal, which bundles models, hosted tools and one cloud agent and bills anything beyond the plan to those credits.
FAQ
Yes. The software is free and open source under the MIT license. You pay only for the model you connect, and that can cost nothing extra: local models, a free Nous Portal account with free models, or a ChatGPT plan you already pay for, if Nous accepts it.
$0 to $200 a month, and Nous publishes no usage numbers. On Nous's figures Super is five times Plus's price for five times its usage and Ultra ten times for ten (ToolColumn arithmetic), so a bigger plan buys more usage, not cheaper usage.
Yes, in two ways: sign in with ChatGPT inside Hermes, or connect ChatGPT in Nous Portal and approve plan sharing, which needs no paid Nous subscription. Through the Portal, Nous says ChatGPT's plan and app limits still apply and it bills other models, tools and Cloud hosting separately; for the sign-in inside Hermes, its docs do not yet say what your plan covers. Nous lists no eligible ChatGPT plans.
Each paid Nous Portal plan includes one Cloud agent up to a set size, from 4 GB of RAM and 25 GB of disk on Plus to 8 GB and 100 GB on Ultra. A larger or extra agent bills from your Nous credit once a day, by the second of uptime plus storage, with inference and tools on top; Nous shows per-size daily prices only in the signed-in Portal. Deploying one needs $2 of credit or an active subscription.
In the Hermes desktop app for macOS and Windows, in a terminal on macOS, Linux and Windows, and through Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal or email, all with the same memory. A cloud agent also has a browser dashboard.
Nous offers no iOS or Android app. On a phone you reach your agent through messaging apps such as Telegram or WhatsApp, and Android can run the terminal version in Termux.
Through Nous Portal it can. Nous's terms let it use your prompts and outputs to improve its models and license them to third parties, unless you turn on Privacy Mode in your Portal account settings, which applies from then on. You own the outputs made for you.
Hermes Business gives a team one shared balance on Nous's infrastructure, but Nous publishes no price for it. Hermes Enterprise runs on infrastructure you control and is quoted through enterprise@nousresearch.com.
Hermes Agent From $20/mo + usage · Free plan
Prices checked November 9, 2026
Editorial guidance grounded in official product sources.
Prices come from portal.nousresearch.com's official pricing page; the date at the top of this page is the latest check. Plan details and limits are reviewed against official pages every month. Picks are ToolColumn's judgment.
Edited byRick Finch
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