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Hermes Agent — Model & Provider Research

Last updated: 2026-07-03

Current Setup

  • Config: ~/.hermes/config.yaml
  • Default model: google/gemini-3.5-flash
  • Provider: nous (Nous Portal)
  • Subscription: Free tier ($0.10/month credits)

Provider Options

Nous Portal

  • Free: $0.10/month credits (barely enough to test)
  • Plus: 20/month →22 in credits — recommended minimum
  • Super: 100/month →110 credits
  • Includes Tool Gateway (web search, browser, image gen, TTS)
  • Subscription proxy: hermes proxy start → http://127.0.0.1:8645/v1 — lets Cursor/Cline share the subscription

US-hosted providers for DeepSeek V4 Flash

Provider Price/1M tokens Notes
Nous Portal ~$0.07–0.14 Already set up, Tool Gateway included
Fireworks AI ~$0.30 Best tool-calling reliability
Together AI ~$0.29 Best throughput
DeepInfra ~$0.28 Budget option
Hyperbolic ~$0.28 Good free trial
OpenRouter ~$0.30 One key for 50+ models

Models on Nous Portal

Non-Chinese companies

Model ID Company Notes
google/gemini-3.5-flash Google Very fast, current default
anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 Anthropic Fast, cheap
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 Anthropic Best tool calling
anthropic/claude-opus-4.8 Anthropic Most capable
openai/gpt-5.4-mini OpenAI Fast, cheap
x-ai/grok-4.3 xAI Moderate
nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b Nvidia Only non-Chinese open-weight

Chinese-origin, US-hosted (your data stays in US)

Model ID Company Notes
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash DeepSeek Community favorite for Hermes
deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro DeepSeek Harder reasoning tasks
qwen/qwen3.7-plus Alibaba
stepfun/step-3.7-flash StepFun Previous default

Recommendations

Goal Pick
Fastest + cheapest everyday deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via Nous
Best quality, non-Chinese company anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 via Nous
Best open-weight, non-Chinese origin nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b

Gemini Subscription (July 2026 status)

  • google-gemini-cli OAuth provider broke June 18, 2026 — Google sunset Gemini CLI
  • Antigravity-oauth replacement PRs unmerged
  • Workaround: GEMINI_API_KEY from Google AI Studio (requires billing)

Config Snippets

# Switch to DeepSeek V4 Flash
model:
  default: deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash
  provider: nous
  base_url: https://inference-api.nousresearch.com/v1

# Use Nous subscription proxy with Cursor/Cline
hermes proxy start
# Base URL: http://127.0.0.1:8645/v1  API key: anything
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