Hermes Agent AI Agent Hosting

A server that runs Hermes Agent for you around the clock. You bring an API key from your AI provider and a Telegram or Discord bot token; the panel stores them encrypted and starts Hermes Agent with them. You then talk to your agent from Telegram or Discord, and it keeps its memory, skills and scheduled jobs running while your computer is off. Your AI provider bills your model use directly; our plan covers the server.

PlayNHost is not affiliated with Nous Research. Hermes Agent is open-source software under the MIT licence, and its docs say it collects no telemetry.

Hermes Agent is light once it runs, but installing and updating it is not. We measured version 0.23.0 on our own servers, on one CPU core, before selling it:

That is why our plans start at 2 GB, although the agent needs far less once it runs. The install takes about 2.5 GB of disk, 3 GB after an update; the 2 GB plan has 12 GB.

Paste a key from any one of these on the Agent page: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, xAI or OpenRouter. One key is enough: Hermes Agent picks the provider from the key, and you can change the model from the chat with its /model command. Keys are stored encrypted, never shown again, and reach only your server. In our tests Hermes Agent kept only a fingerprint of the key in its files. Your provider bills your model use directly; our plan covers the server, not the AI.

Hermes Agent can run commands and send messages for you, so it answers only you. On the Agent page you enter your Telegram user ID or your Discord user ID, and messages from anyone else are ignored. Do not know your Telegram ID? Send your bot any message: your Telegram user ID appears in the console. Your agent has no port open to the internet; it connects out to Telegram and Discord on its own. If a setting opens it to other people while it runs, the server stops the agent, and the next start lets only you in again.

• A web dashboard. Hermes Agent's own docs say its password sign-in is not for the public internet, so we do not open it. You use Hermes Agent from Telegram or Discord.
• Other chat apps. Telegram and Discord only. WhatsApp is not allowed: Hermes Agent's WhatsApp bridge imitates WhatsApp Web, which breaks WhatsApp's terms. Slack, Signal, Matrix and the other apps are switched off.
• Browser automation. Hermes Agent is installed without its browser, so tasks that need it to drive a real browser will not work.

No. Hermes Agent's official Docker image starts as root under its own process manager, and on a VPS you install and update it yourself. Here the server already runs it: the first start installs Hermes Agent with Nous Research's installer, which takes about three to four minutes, every later start checks for a new stable release, and an in-chat restart or update starts it again on its own. You get a console, files and SFTP if you want to look inside, and backups keep your agent's settings, memories, skills, sessions and scheduled jobs (about 5 MB in our test).