Hermes Agent + DeepSeek V4 (FREE) = GOD TIER

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]Looks like Hermes agent just received another massive update today where Deepseek version 4 is now completely free to use inside news portal which is honestly a huge game changer. This basically means you're getting near state-of-the-art reasoning coding long context and autonomous agent performance completely for free inside an open-source AI agent harness. Now, this is where if you are to combine Hermes persistent memory system, a multi- aent orchestration, browser use, computer control, and self-improving workflows, you're essentially getting access to extremely powerful autonomous AI operating environments at zero cost with this combination. And for those who are unfamiliar with Hermes Agent, it's one of the most interesting open-source AI agent projects right now. It's designed as a persistent autonomous system that continuously evolves over time. It's built by news research under the MIT license and Hermes agent can practically run 24/7 off of your own infrastructure while building long-term memory, reusable skills, and even deeper understanding of your user itself as you use it more and more. If you want the best AI tools, workflows, and drops before everyone else, join my free newsletter with the link in the description below, which is completely free. Now, to get started with this setup, obviously you need to make sure that you have Hermes agent installed locally. Now, one great thing is that it is now supported for Windows, but it is currently in beta testing, but you can still get the Hermes agent installed onto your Windows operating system. Once you have the agent installed, you can then head over to news portal. And what you got to do here is just make an account. And you can do this completely for free. And you want to select the free tier to access the news portal to get access to all the free models like DeepSeek version 4. Once you have an account, then you can head over to the portal. And we're going to keep this open in the meantime. After selecting the free tier, what you can then do is open up a command prompt. And within this command prompt, what you got to do is just simply type in Hermes and then space and then type in model and then click enter. This is where you have the ability to now configure whatever model you want to use. Currently, I have the codeex plan linked up to my Hermes agent, but you can select number one, which is where you're going to be able to use the news portal. This will prompt open the news portal uh agent signin.

[00:02:25]Once you have connected it to your free tier, you can then access it directly within Hermes agent. And you'll see right away the DeepS version 4 flash is completely free. So you can select that model and you can just simply click number one into your command prompt and click enter. And this will default the model to use the Deepseek version for Flash completely for free within Hermes.

[00:02:47]Now all you got to do is just prompt open the agent itself by typing in Hermes. And you can see that it is now going to use the DeepSseek version for Flash completely for free directly within Hermes agent, letting you use all of these features completely for free.

[00:03:03]And I'm not saying this is a perfect god tier workflow, but the value proposition here is honestly kind of insane. This model is quite underrated actually. It is obviously extremely fast and you're getting state-of-the-art reasoning and agentic performance completely for free through Hermes. And technically speaking, this matters a lot because this model is not some tiny lightweight model. In terms of intelligence, artificial analysis is stating that it is ranked number 10 in terms of its overall performance in the index. It is extremely fast, number eight out of 87 different models. Obviously, pricing is free. And in terms of overall usage, you can see that it is listed at 121 tokens for approximately 1 second, which is extremely efficient and it is extremely fast. This is something that also supports a massive 1 million token context window. It is pretty good at reasoning and coding and surprisingly good for autonomous workflows. Now, in my own benchmark, which I will be releasing fairly soon, this model is extremely fast while also being something that can excel at frontend agentic task as well as system simulation. I'm not saying it's the best, but the value that you're getting for a free model is pretty good with this harness like Hermes. And you can see that it does pretty decent in terms of getting the basic structure and output for your front end in comparison to something like Opus 4.7 which probably is spending a lot more for an output like this. And what's cool is you can even use it like a research agent for example which can work incrementally based off the schedule that it is given.

[00:04:42]And you can see that it's able to use tools like web search completely for free. Something that's built within the news research portal currently. You can see that it is scouring multiple sources to get my research task done where it's extracting multiple contents on what is happening right now throughout the AI model race where it is trying to find different model releases within the last 24 hours. It is also focusing on summarizing the biggest updates and then comparing the benchmarks and then at the end generating a clean markdown report with all the different sources. And just like that, it has created a markdown report which I've just opened this up within cursor and you can see that it has all the different sources as well and talks about all of the different findings as well as comparing it to other benchmarks as well as a baseline.

[00:05:30]So that is actually pretty interesting and that was a research task that I had completed right directly within my computer using a free model. Now, what I'm going to say is make this into a good-looking report in HTML. And just like that, we have the HTML, a blog post that talks about all of the summaries that it was able to compile and research upon. And you can see that this is a pretty decent looking front end that it had generated. And that is what I mean.

[00:05:58]It's not something that's horrible. And it's something that can actually get the task done pretty quickly and give you a good condensed report on multiple topics that you tell it to research upon. I'm not saying this is something that you should just use for research. You can use it for smart file organization, Excel, or as an AI analyst for whatever spreadsheets that you have. You can have it used for browser use workflows and so many other components that can essentially automate a lot of things in your life completely for free. And remember, you can use all of these available tools with this model. There's 19 plus tool sets that are directly available within your Hermes agent, like browser use, using different skills, as well as setting up different schedule tasks, as well as their new/goals command, which you can use with the Deepseek version 4. You also have a lot of these different available skills. And if you want to track your usage with the model, you can do so within the news portal. And this way you can track your usage for your daily credit, your deepc credit usage. This is what I mean by front-end generation. It's not the best, but it can get the job done and it can ease off a lot of your tasks when using this model for different use cases. But you can see that there's a lot of clear bugs and a lot of things that would need a lot of refinement. But you can use this as a scaffolder and it can get the job done at to a point where you can just simply use another model maybe like Opus to refine certain outputs to make sure everything is thoroughly completed.

[00:07:30]If you like this video and would love to support the channel, you can consider donating to my channel through the super thanks option below. Or you can consider joining our private Discord where you can access multiple subscriptions to different AI tools for free on a monthly basis, plus daily AI news and exclusive content, plus a lot more. Overall, this is a remarkable setup that lets you use Hermes Agent completely for free with a pretty great model. And this way, you can do almost anything with this harness. Now, this is something I would highly make the most out of within the next few weeks as this might change within the next few weeks. We don't know if they might uh revert back to a pricing tier for the Deep Seek version 4. So, just keep that in mind. But, I would highly recommend making the most out of this new update. I'll leave all the links that I use in today's video in the description below. But with that thought, guys, thank you guys so much for watching. Hope you enjoyed today's video. Make sure you go ahead and take a look at the Universe of AI, which is our second channel. Join the newsletter to get more daily AI news. Make sure you also join the Discord, follow me on Twitter, and lastly, make sure you guys subscribe, turn on notification bell, like this video, and please take a look at our previous videos so that you can stay upto date with the latest AI news.

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