Hermes Agent
Open-source agent from Nous Research that you run yourself. One agent with persistent memory reachable from Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, email, or the CLI, with scheduled automations, subagents, browser automation, and sandboxed execution (local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal).
- Supervision needed
- High You host it, pick the model, and decide what it can touch. Unattended schedules and shell access mean you own the safety setup.
- Where it tends to fail
- Setup and model-provider config trouble, and scheduled jobs failing quietly when the gateway is down.
- Pricing
- Free and open source (MIT). You pay your model provider; optional Nous Portal paid tiers include model and tool credits. Pricing page (Checked Oct 2026)
- Website
- https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com
The supervision level and failure notes are our editorial judgment from how these tools are built and used, not test results or ratings. Your setup may differ.