Is Hermes Agent free?

The software is free and MIT licensed. Model usage is paid, either through Nous Portal's credit plans or your own API keys. Magai's plans include the model usage.

Does Hermes train on my data?

The hosted Nous Portal may use prompts, inputs and outputs to train and evaluate its services by default, with an opt-out privacy mode, according to its privacy policy. On Magai, nothing you write, upload or generate trains any model.

Does Magai have a memory like Hermes?

Yes. Magai remembers facts across every model and every chat in a workspace, and you can read, search and delete every memory in the app.

Can Magai schedule tasks like Hermes?

Yes. Standard includes 100 scheduled runs a month, Pro 1,000 and Ultra unlimited, on any model, across 150+ integrations.

Does Hermes have team features?

No. Magai adds seats at $20 a month on Standard with shared workspaces and live collaboration.

Does Magai have a free plan?

No. Every Magai plan is paid, from $20 a month, with a 30 day money back guarantee.

Hermes vs Magai: an open-source agent against a workspace with every model

Hermes vs Magai

Every model, without the server.Hermes is a clever open-source agent with a memory and a cheap hosted gateway. It is also yours to host, meter and secure, and the gateway trains on your prompts unless you switch it off. Magai is every major model in a workspace that is ready when you sign in, with memory built in and training off for good.

Get dozens of AIs in one See the side by side

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Outline a three-post LinkedIn launch for Scheduled Tasks.

GPTAuto

Day 1 the problem: reports you forget. Day 2 the fix: any model, on a schedule. Day 3 proof: a customer's Monday.

DDustin

/Claude write Day 1 in my voice.

Claude

“Every Monday I promised a report. Every Monday I wrote it at 11pm. Then I gave the job to Magai…” Kept your three-day arc from the outline above.

/Gemini turn Day 1 into a 30-second video script.

Claude

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An honest comparison

Hermes Agent, from Nous Research, is a serious piece of software. It keeps a persistent memory, writes its own reusable skills, schedules its own jobs, and reaches you over Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal or email. The software is free and MIT licensed, and the optional Nous Portal gateway turns $20 into $22 of usage across two hundred or more models.

The trade is the same as with any self-hosted agent, with one addition. You run it, secure it and keep it running; there is no rich chat interface, no documents, no team. And by default the hosted Portal may use your prompts, inputs and outputs to train and evaluate its services, with a privacy mode you have to find and switch on.

Magai keeps the ideas that make Hermes interesting, memory across every model, scheduled tasks, agents, and puts them in a workspace you sign in to, with dozens of models included and one training rule that never needs a toggle.

Side by side

Hermes Agent with Nous Portal Plus and Magai's Standard plan, feature by feature.

Feature	Magai	Hermes Agent with Nous Portal Plus
Price	$20 a month, models included	Free software; Portal Plus $20 for $22 of usage
Setup	Sign in	Install, host, configure, maintain
AI models	Dozens from every major lab, included	200+ through Portal, or your own keys, metered
Switch models mid-chat	Yes, with the whole context	Yes, by command
Memory across models	Shared by every model, editable in the app	Persistent memory in the agent
Everyday chat interface	A full workspace with canvas and threads	Chat apps or the terminal
Scheduled tasks	Included, on any model	Built-in scheduler
Video generation	Several video models	Not listed
Team workspaces	$20 a seat on Standard
Uses your prompts to train AI	Never	Portal: yes by default, opt out in settings
Support	In-app live support and a help center	Community

Hermes details reflect the hermes-agent site, its repository and the Nous Portal pricing and privacy pages at the time of writing.

What changes

What you get with Magai

Memory

The same idea, in the app

Hermes is right that an assistant should remember. Magai's memory is workspace-wide and model-agnostic: a fact you tell GPT is there for Claude, and you can read every memory, search them and delete any one from the settings. No agent to run for it, no server to keep up.

Metered or included

$20 that is $20

Portal Plus is honest about what it is: $22 of tokens, with tools such as search and image generation billed to the same balance. Magai's $20 is a plan, with dozens of models included and a top-up at a known price when a heavy week needs it.

The day's work

A workspace, not a channel

Hermes talks to you through Telegram or a terminal, which suits an agent and not a document. Magai is threads, a canvas that exports to PDF and DOCX, images and video in the same conversation, and a picker that names the model.

Team

Seats, workspaces and support

Hermes is personal software with no seats. Magai adds a teammate for $20 a month on Standard, with shared workspaces, shared agents, live collaboration and a support team.

Privacy

Training off, with nothing to switch

Nous Portal's privacy policy allows it to use prompts, inputs and outputs to train, fine-tune and evaluate its services by default, with a privacy mode you enable in account settings. Magai's rule is the same on every model and every plan, with no setting to find: your prompts, files and outputs are never used to train any model, from any provider.

Never used for trainingYour conversations never train a public or a private model.
Private by defaultA conversation is visible to you and the teammates you invite, and nobody else.
Built for regulated workUsed by schools, legal, finance, medical and enterprise teams handling sensitive material.

Teams

Built for more than one person

Hermes has no seats and no shared workspace. Add a teammate to Standard for $20 a month, with shared workspaces, live collaboration and view-only links included. Pro and Ultra seats are quoted for the team. Every model is available to everyone on the account.

Each extra seat on Standard

$20a month