Nous Hermes Agent v0.8.0 Review: Open-Source Alternative to Claude Code
Nous Hermes Agent is an open-source, self-hosted AI coding and automation agent built by Nous Research that gets measurably faster with every task it completes — reaching 140,000 GitHub stars in under three months after its February 2026 launch. For teams willing to manage infrastructure, it costs $6–80/month versus Claude Code’s subscription pricing, and its GEPA self-improvement engine lets open-source models beat proprietary frontier models by roughly 3% on enterprise tasks at 20–90x lower cost. ...