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Yes. Hermes Agent is free and open source under the MIT license, and local models are free to run. For other models you pay a provider such as OpenRouter, or use a Nous Portal plan with Hermes Agent usage included, within limits that reset daily, weekly and monthly. Every paid plan includes one Hermes Cloud agent; larger or extra agents bill daily from credits.

Both are free, MIT-licensed agents you can host yourself and reach from more than 20 messaging platforms. Hermes Agent adds Hermes Cloud, an always-on hosted instance from Nous Research; OpenClaw states it has no hosted service. One Nous Portal login covers hundreds of models and hosted tools, and skill changes can wait for your review. hermes migrate openclaw brings an OpenClaw setup over, with a preview before anything is written.

On a fresh install, hermes setup looks for an existing setup from agents such as OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex CLI and Cursor and offers to import it, with a preview and a confirmation. On an existing install, run hermes migrate, or hermes migrate followed by the agent's name. From any other agent, run hermes setup --portal to sign in to Nous Portal and pick a model.

Hermes Agent supports ChatGPT sign-in for Codex models through the OpenAI Codex provider, and a SuperGrok or X Premium+ subscription works the same way for Grok models. For Claude, use an Anthropic API key; a Claude Max sign-in draws only on purchased extra usage credits, and Claude Pro cannot sign in. One Nous Portal login also covers Claude, GPT and Gemini models among hundreds.

Yes. Hermes Cloud runs Hermes Agent for you on a dedicated, always-on instance with its own workspace and dashboard, in the nearest available region. Every paid Nous Portal plan includes one Hermes Cloud agent; without a plan, a small credit balance lets you deploy one. You can also host Hermes Agent on your own VPS, and its commands can run in Docker, over SSH, or in Modal, Daytona or Vercel Sandbox.

Yes. Hermes Agent has skills that delegate coding work to the Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode command-line tools, so you keep one agent in your chat apps and use the coding tool you prefer. It also has OpenCode Zen and OpenCode Go built in as model providers.

Hermes Agent works on more than 20 messaging platforms, including Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Microsoft Teams, Matrix, LINE, SMS, email and iMessage (through BlueBubbles), plus X Chat through an official plugin. One gateway process handles all of them, and by default it accepts only allowlisted or paired users. It can send spoken replies in Telegram and Discord and talk in Discord voice channels.

Yes. Message it from Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, Discord or any of the more than 20 messaging platforms it connects to. You can also use Hermes Desktop in any browser, your phone's included, with the Webapp, which serves the Desktop workspace from your own gateway. A Hermes Agent mobile app is in beta and coming soon.