# Hermes Agent on Flux > Self-hosted Hermes Agent hosting on the Flux decentralized cloud. Deploy Hermes Agent, the self-improving AI agent by Nous Research, in under 30 seconds across 50+ countries, with a password-protected dashboard, built-in Tailscale for private networking, bring-your-own AI provider key, an open HTTP API, and no vendor lock-in. Pay-as-you-go pricing from $4.02/month with your first month free. ## About Hermes Agent on Flux (https://hermes.runonflux.com) provides one-click, self-hosted hosting for Hermes Agent on Flux, a decentralized cloud network of independent nodes across more than 50 countries. The service is aimed at developers, businesses, and AI builders who want a dedicated, fully self-hosted AI agent with no shared SaaS backend and no servers to maintain. Hermes Agent is a self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It plans and executes multi-step tasks autonomously, learns from its own runs, and connects to your tools and private network. You drive it from a secure, password-protected web dashboard, and it exposes an HTTP API for programmatic use. Hermes is bring-your-own-key: you plug in your own AI provider key (OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic/Claude, and more) and the agent uses your account and models directly. Your conversations, keys, and agent memory live entirely on your own instance. Flux is a decentralized alternative to traditional centralized cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure). Workloads are distributed across thousands of independent nodes, giving strong redundancy, global presence, and no vendor lock-in. ## Pricing Pay-as-you-go, billed monthly, no long-term contracts, first month free. Plans start at $4.02/month. Tiers: Hermes Agent (2 vCPU + 4 GB RAM + 20 GB storage) and Hermes Agent Pro (4 vCPU + 8 GB RAM + 80 GB storage). Exact prices, CPU, RAM, and storage are pulled live from the Flux Marketplace and shown on the pricing section of the homepage. ## Key features - Dedicated, self-hosted Hermes Agent deployed in under 30 seconds - Self-improving autonomous agent that learns from its own runs to handle complex multi-step tasks - Bring your own AI key - OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic (Claude) and any compatible provider - Built-in Tailscale to securely reach your private network and self-hosted services - Password-protected web dashboard to chat with, inspect, and manage the agent - Open HTTP API server to wire Hermes into your own apps and scripts - Privacy-first - your conversations, provider keys and agent memory stay yours - 50+ global regions on a decentralized node network with built-in DDoS protection - No vendor lock-in - your instance runs on independent nodes you can move freely - Web terminal, file access and monitoring from the dashboard ## Guides & explainers - What Is Hermes Agent? Nous Research's self-improving AI agent explained (https://hermes.runonflux.com/what-is-hermes-agent) - what Hermes Agent is, what "self-improving" means, how the plan/act/observe/refine loop works, bring-your-own-key model access, and why you'd self-host it. - How to Self-Host an AI Agent on the Flux Decentralized Cloud (https://hermes.runonflux.com/self-host-ai-agent) - what you need to self-host an AI agent, the DIY VPS path vs. a one-click deploy, keeping keys and data private, giving the agent private-network access via Tailscale, and cost. - Why Self-Host the Hermes AI Agent on the Flux Decentralized Cloud (https://hermes.runonflux.com/why-self-host-hermes) - an educational guide to self-hosting the Hermes AI agent: what a self-improving agent is, privacy and data ownership, bring-your-own AI key, no vendor lock-in, decentralization, dedicated resources, and pay-as-you-go pricing. - Managed Hermes Agent Hosting on Flux (https://hermes.runonflux.com/managed-hermes-hosting) - the commercial hosting page: what managed Hermes hosting includes, what it costs (from $4.02/month, first month free), how a managed one-click deploy compares to running the agent on a VPS yourself, and that you keep your keys and data with no vendor lock-in. ## Pages - [Home / pricing / features / FAQ](https://hermes.runonflux.com/) - [What is the Hermes AI agent](https://hermes.runonflux.com/what-is-hermes-agent) - [How to self-host an AI agent](https://hermes.runonflux.com/self-host-ai-agent) - [Why self-host Hermes](https://hermes.runonflux.com/why-self-host-hermes) - [Managed Hermes Agent hosting (pricing & what's included)](https://hermes.runonflux.com/managed-hermes-hosting) - [Hermes agent not responding: how to find the cause](https://hermes.runonflux.com/agent-not-responding) - [How much does it cost to run an AI agent](https://hermes.runonflux.com/ai-agent-cost) - [Support](https://hermes.runonflux.com/support) ## Links - Homepage: https://hermes.runonflux.com/ - What is Hermes Agent: https://hermes.runonflux.com/what-is-hermes-agent - Self-host an AI agent (guide): https://hermes.runonflux.com/self-host-ai-agent - Why self-host Hermes on Flux (educational): https://hermes.runonflux.com/why-self-host-hermes - Managed Hermes Agent hosting (commercial): https://hermes.runonflux.com/managed-hermes-hosting - Support (ticket portal): https://support.runonflux.com - Hermes Agent project: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com - Hermes Agent source: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent - Flux network: https://runonflux.io - Community Discord: https://discord.com/invite/runonflux