Deploy Hermes
Private Telegram & Discord AI agents, live in under a minute
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Deploy Hermes is a managed hosting platform purpose-built for Nous Research's Hermes agents—giving anyone the ability to deploy a persistent, private AI agent on Telegram, Discord, or Slack without managing servers. You connect your bot credentials and choose your AI provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, or others via your own API key), and the agent is live in under 60 seconds with encrypted key storage and isolated runtime instances. What distinguishes this from generic cloud functions or Docker deployments is the feature set baked into the managed layer: persistent memory across restarts, scheduled jobs (up to unlimited on the Power tier), browser automation, web search, and custom skill development. Health checks, updates, and restarts are fully automated. You pay for compute, not for the AI calls themselves—bring-your-own API keys means you control the LLM costs directly. Launching on Product Hunt today (April 6, 2026) with a 25% launch discount (code: PHLAUNCH25), pricing starts at $16/month for basic bot hosting, $32/month for automation with scheduled jobs, and $63/month for parallel workloads. This is essentially Heroku for Hermes agents—the platform abstraction that lets builders focus on agent behavior rather than infrastructure.
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“The bring-your-own-API-key model is the right call—you only pay for the hosting, not a markup on tokens. Persistent memory, scheduled jobs, and browser automation for $32/month is a genuinely strong deal for a solo builder who wants a capable personal agent on Telegram without managing a VPS.”
“This is Hermes-specific hosting—if you want to run any other agent framework, it doesn't apply. You're betting on Nous Research's Hermes ecosystem staying relevant, and you're paying a persistent monthly fee on top of your own API costs. For developers comfortable with a VPS, Railway, or Fly.io, the value proposition is thin. The privacy claims also need scrutiny—'encrypted keys' is a marketing statement, not a security architecture.”
“Managed agent hosting is a real category forming right now—Maritime, Deploy Hermes, and a dozen others are racing to become the Heroku of the agent era. The winner will be whoever locks in the best developer experience and the most reliable uptime. Hermes has 27k GitHub stars and serious momentum; Deploy Hermes is riding that wave intelligently.”
“A persistent AI agent on my Telegram that I can ask to do research, schedule tasks, and browse the web—without me needing to know what Docker is—for $16 a month. I'll try the free tier today. The setup under 60 seconds claim is either exactly right or wildly optimistic; I'll find out soon.”