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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/M2Gemini
Gemini 3 Flash
$0.5/M3OpenAI
GPT-5.4 Mini
$0.75/M4MoonshotAI
Kimi K2.5
$0.375/M5Minimax
MiniMax-M3
$0.3/M
Full ranking

Best free models for Hermes

1OpenRouter
Owl Alpha
Free2OpenRouter
Free Models Router
Free3MoonshotAI
Kimi K2.6
$0.66/M4Qwen
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
$0.22/M5L
Laguna M.1
$0.2/M
Full ranking

Best models for Hermes

1OpenAI
GPT-5.4
$2.5/M2OpenAI
GPT-5.4 Mini
$0.75/M3Claude
Claude Sonnet 5
$2/M4Gemini
Gemini 3 Flash
$0.5/M5DeepSeek
DeepSeek V4
$0.435/M
Full ranking

Best open-source models for Hermes

1MoonshotAI
Kimi K2.6
$0.66/M2DeepSeek
DeepSeek V4
$0.435/M3GLM 5.1 logo
GLM 5.1
$0.98/M4Qwen
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
$0.22/M5M
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

    377
#ModelTokens
  • 1
    1OpenRouterOwl Alphaopenrouter
    Tokens6.5T
  • 2
    2DeepSeekDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek
    Tokens4.6T
  • 3
    3MinimaxMiniMax M3minimax
    Tokens2.2T
  • 4
    4StepfunStep 3.7 Flashstepfun
    Tokens1.6T
  • 5
    5DeepSeekDeepSeek V4 Prodeepseek
    Tokens1.4T
  • 6
    6NvidiaNemotron 3 Supernvidia
    Tokens756B
  • 7
    7ClaudeClaude Opus 4.8anthropic
    Tokens532B
  • 8
    8ClaudeClaude Sonnet 4.6anthropic
    Tokens530B
  • 9
    9MMiMo-V2.5xiaomi
    Tokens468B
  • 10
    10MMiMo-V2.5-Proxiaomi
    Tokens380B

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

    99

  • OpenRouter rank

    #1
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