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How to Run Hermes Agent FREE Forever!
The AI Firehose · 2026-07-25 · 8 min
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RUN HERMES AGENT FREE: New HY3 295B Model Setup Guide Learn how to run the Hermes agent completely for free using the massive new HY3 model from Tencent. This guide covers step-by-step setup, building landing pages, and saving tokens by delegating tasks to free models.
✨ Episode Outline — click any point to jump to it in the episode
Problem solved
Running a capable
Hermes Agent setup without paying for frontier model API costs.
Benefits
- Free 295B-parameter HY3 model plugged into Hermes
- 256k context window at zero cost
- Non-technical setup — a couple of terminal commands
- Delegate cheap tasks to HY3, keep frontier model as brain
- Backup profiles avoid rate-limit downtime
Use cases
- Built a responsive AI Profit Boardroom landing page in ~60 seconds with HY3
- Used Hermes 'learn' to teach a skill from a guide in ~30 seconds
- HY3 opened a website via tool use inside Hermes chat
- Token-saving routing: GT 515 as brain delegating small tasks to free HY3
- Dual profiles (HY3 + OmniRoot) to bounce past rate limits
KPIs / results
- 295 billion parameters, 256k context window
- Landing page built in ~60 seconds
- 'Learn' skill absorbed a guide in ~30 seconds
- Agent OS installs in ~10 minutes; 10,000+ pre-built agents included
Tools / build
- Hermes Agent + HY3 (Tencent Hunyuan) setup
- AI Profit Boardroom Agent OS zip
- Hermes Apollo voice agent
- Paperclip agent org chart
- HY3 coder with live preview
📑 Chapters — tap a time to jump there
00:00
Intro
- Run Hermes Agent free with a new Chinese model
- Build landing pages, use tools, train agents — no coding
00:18
Meet the HY3 295B Model
- HY3 from Tencent Hunyuan: 295B parameters, 256k context
- Tested with a landing page build for AI Profit Boardroom
01:06
How to Setup Hermes & HY3
- Setup: type 'hermes model', pick HY3 via News Portal
- Free API alternative through OpenRouter
- Landing page built in ~60 seconds, clean and responsive
02:22
Using Tools & Teaching Skills
- HY3 uses tools — opened a website on command
- Hermes 'learn' saved a skill from a guide in ~30 seconds
- Responses take ~60 seconds but run in background
03:16
AI Agent OS Showcase
- Agent OS: Hermes chat, Apollo voice agent, Paperclip org charts
- Hermes Oracle, Astro Studio, outreach tool, mixture-of-agents
- Full zip installs in ~10 minutes via AI Profit Boardroom
05:28
Strategy: Save Tokens with HY3
- Keep frontier model (e.g. GT 515) as brain
- Delegate small tasks to free HY3 to cut token costs
06:07
Handling Rate Limits
- Free models get rate limited — set up OmniRoot backup profile
- Switch profiles to keep working; recap of free Hermes+HY3 stack
How to Run Hermes Agent FREE Forever. Today I'm going to show you how to run Hermes Agent for free. Brand new model dropped from China. It's big, it's fast and it costs you nothing. You can build landing pages, use tools, even train your own agents. And the best part, you don't need to be techie at all. Stick around because this one is wild. So there's a brand new free model out right now and you can plug it straight into Hermes Agent today. It's called HY3. It comes from Tencent Hunyuan in China and it just dropped a few hours ago. Now here's the crazy part. This thing is a 295 billion parameter model. It has a 256k context window. That means you can run Hermes Agent for free and use this big brain model to do your work. Let me show you what it can do. So the first thing I did was ask it a simple question just to see how it thinks. And it did pretty well, nice and clear. Then I wanted to test it with a real task. So I went inside Hermes and said, build me a beautiful landing page for the AI Profit Boardroom that shows the amazing value of AI automation and explains all the benefits of joining our community. So we get more leads, more customers and more traffic. And then I just waited for it to load. Now stick with me because in a second, I'll show you exactly what it built and trust me is better than you think. But first, let me show you how to set this up because it's way easier than you'd expect. So you go to your terminal and you type in Hermes model. That's it. Then you go to news portal at the top, you select it and you grab HY3 right from there. Done. That's the whole setup. A couple of clicks, no coding, no stress. Oh, and quick thing. If we haven't met yet, I'm the digital avatar of Julian Goldie, CEO of SEO agency, Goldie Agency. While he's out helping clients get more leads and customers, I'm here to help you get the latest AI updates. So make sure you're following along. Now here's another cool thing. You can also get a free API for HY3. So if you don't want to use news portal, you can use open router instead. You just select the Tencent HY model and you're good to go. This model is built for agent workflows. It's built for reasoning. So it's perfect for tasks like this. Now let me show you that landing page it built. So we asked it to build a landing page for the AI profit boardroom and it gave us a link. Let's open it up. And you know what? It actually looks pretty nice. It's not going to be fable five level, but for a free model, it's clean, it's simple. And it was responsive to it took about 60 seconds to build the whole thing, which is not bad at all. And it laid out the benefits of AI automation nicely. So you could take this, tweak it and use it to bring in more leads for your business. Pretty cool for something that costs you nothing. So HY3 can also use tools. Let me show you. I went inside the chat and said, open up this website for us. And it actually did it just like that. But here's the really powerful bit. Hermes has a feature called learn. So I typed learn and gave it a link to a guide I made. And I wanted to see if it could actually learn from it. Now, if you don't know what learn does, let me break it down. Basically, you can teach your Hermes agent a brand new skill from any guide, and then it saves that skill for later. So you can use it again and again. Think about that for a second. You could feed it a guide on how to write emails for the AI profit boardroom, and then it saves that skill. And every time you need an email, it already knows how to do it. So it read the guide. It took about 30 seconds. And then it said, right, I read the page. Here's a breakdown and here's what I learned. And then it saved it as a skill for the future. Now I'll be honest with you. When I use HY3, each response takes about 60 seconds. So it's not instant. It's not super fast, but here's the thing it's free and you can just give it a task and let it work in the background while you do other stuff. Now, before I go on, I want to show you something because doing all of this by hand is cool, but what if you could just download the whole thing ready to go? That's exactly what I've built. And it's inside my AI profit boardroom. Let me show you what this agent OS actually looks like. So right here, you can see the full setup. You get the chat with Hermes built right in. You get Hermes Apollo, which is a voice activated version of the agent. So you can literally just talk to it and look at this. This is paperclip. You can build full teams of AI agents inside an org chart. So you're not running one agent. You're running a whole company of them. We've got Hermes Oracle. We've got Hermes Astro studio. We've got an outreach tool for sending emails, and we've even got a mixture of agents that can beat fable five on benchmarks. That's wild. Then you've got a full control room goal mode. And I've plugged in the memory too. And remember the HY3 coder I mentioned, it's right here. So you plug in your free HY3 API, build something and preview it live all in one place. Now here's the best part. You don't have to build any of this yourself inside the AI profit boardroom. I've got the complete agent OS ready as a zip file. You just download it and install it. That's it. Jacob set is up in about 10 minutes. So if you want my exact agent OS system, the one you're looking at right now, come join the AI profit boardroom. You get the full zip file ready to install. So you can run Hermes and HY3 the way I do. The link is in the comments and description. This is the best place to scale your business, get more customers and save hundreds of hours with AI automation. I know some people say, I'll try this later, but if you wait, you'll miss it. So if you're going to use it, use it now, not later now. So let's recap how this works. It's three simple steps. Step one, you get Hermes and plug it into your agent OS. Step two, you use news portal or open router for two weeks. Step three, you use HY3 as the brain, which is great for coding using tools and running agent workflows. And it's open source too. Plus one more thing is also free inside kilo code. So you've got open router Hermes and kilo code, all good options. Now, let me be real with you about how good this actually is. They compared it to Opus Fable and HY3. And in my own tests, it's nowhere near the level of Opus 4.8 or Fable five, not even close, but Hey, if it's free, you really can't complain. Can you? And the best part is it's non-technical to set up. You don't need to be a coder. It's just a couple of terminal commands. You plug in the model and that's pretty much it. Okay. Now let me show you that trick. I promise. So here's how you save a ton of tokens. And this is huge. If you're running a business on AI, when you're using an agent operating system, like we are, you can really cut down how many tokens you use. Here's how you delegate small tasks to HY3 because it's free. And then you keep a more powerful frontier model as the main brain. So for example, you could have GT 515 as your brain, and that brain delegates the small tasks down to the free models like HY3. Think about it. Your smart, expensive model plans everything and your free model does the heavy lifting. That's how you run a lean AI setup. Now here's a bonus tip. If you use free models a lot, this one's for you. Sometimes you'll get rate limited or throttled on HY3. It happens with free models. So what you can do is use something like OmniRoot as a backup. Here's the clever part inside our profiles. You can set up one profile with HY3 and another with OmniRoot. And if you get rate limited on one, you just switch to the other. So you never stop working. You just bounce between them. Pretty smart, right? So look, this is a really simple way to run a powerful agent for free. You plug in Hermes, you grab HY3 from News Portal, Open Router, or KiloCode, and you've got yourself a free brain that can code, use tools, and run full agent workflows. Delegate your small tasks to it. Keep a frontier model as your main brain and set up a backup with OmniRoot so you never get stuck. That's how you build a lean, powerful, and basically free AI setup. And one more thing, because this is the whole point of the video. Everything I'm showing you right now, this exact agent OS, you can get the full thing, the complete zip file ready to install. It's inside the AI Profit boardroom. Now here's the honest truth. A lot of people build out a 30-day roadmap and stop right there. But I'm telling you straight, you can just grab the actual agent OS tool from us. The whole system zipped up, ready to drop in and go. You get the model routing playbooks, which model for which job done for you. You get over 10,000 pre-built agents ready to run. You get new model briefings, so you're always first, always ahead. And you get coaching calls every week with real people who get it. So if you want my setup, my agent OS, come join the AI Profit boardroom. The link is in the comments and the description. Go grab it. And if you want more free AI use cases like this one, I've also got something for you. Come join the AI Success Lab. It's completely free. Inside, you get the full process, the SOPs, and over 100 AI use cases, just like this one. You'll get all the video notes from there, plus access to our community of 38,000 members who are crushing it with AI every single day. So go grab HY3 while it's still free, plug it into Hermes, and start building. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next one.