The only Hermes
that remembers you.

Hermes Agent is an open-source AI agent framework — a brilliant, fast-moving project that lets developers build conversational AI assistants. The community loves it, but the #1 complaint on Reddit, GitHub and r/LocalLLaMA is the same: it doesn't preserve memory across sessions. Every conversation starts from zero. HermesRecall is a managed-hosting service that takes the Hermes Agent you already know and bolts the Honcho persistent-memory layer on top of it, plus a curated library of 70+ pre-installed skills. You get the same agent, but it actually remembers you — across sessions, channels and devices. We are not affiliated with the Hermes Agent open-source project; we provide independent infrastructure on top of it.

Because it's the only feature the competition doesn't have. Every managed Hermes host on the market today solves the install problem — they spin up an instance for you, configure Telegram/Slack, and you're chatting in minutes. Great. But ask any of them "what was that project I told you about three weeks ago?" and they'll tell you they have no idea. None of them solved memory. We did. That's the entire reason HermesRecall exists, and it's why our slogan is "the only Hermes that remembers you." Memory isn't a feature we added — memory is the product.

Three reasons. (1) Total transparency: you see the AI provider's bill directly — there's no markup hidden inside our subscription. (2) You stay in control: switch from Claude to GPT to Gemini whenever you want, without changing your HermesRecall plan. (3) It's actually cheaper for you in the long run — we charge for the memory layer, the skills, the hosting and the support, not for tokens we'd have to mark up to make a margin. During onboarding we walk you through creating an Anthropic key in about 60 seconds — Anthropic asks for a $5 minimum deposit to activate the key, which becomes your prepaid AI budget (not a charge from us, and it typically lasts weeks for a light user). If you already have a Claude, GPT or Gemini key, just paste it. For typical conversational use you're looking at a few dollars a month — and you set a hard monthly cap on your provider account during onboarding, so whatever figure you pick is the absolute maximum you can ever pay.

All your data — every message, every memory entry, every Honcho embedding, every uploaded file — is stored exclusively on Hetzner servers in Frankfurt, Germany. Nothing leaves the European Union, ever. We are GDPR-compliant by default: a Data Processing Agreement (DPA) is available on request, you have full export and erasure rights from your dashboard, and we maintain a public processing register. We do not train any AI model on your data, ever. We do not share your data with third parties beyond the model provider you chose with your BYOK key. Your conversations are encrypted at rest and in transit.

No — not during support, not for debugging, not ever. Your Honcho memory entries and chat logs are encrypted at rest with per-tenant keys that live only inside your private instance. Our operators can restart your container, scale compute, and ship updates, but they cannot decrypt or read a single message. When you open a support ticket, you choose what to share — we never pull data from your instance without explicit consent in that ticket. We run this the way we'd want our own therapist's notes run: encrypted, siloed, and fundamentally off-limits to the infra team.

Yes — no lock-in, no penalty, no "call us to cancel" trick. Cancellation is one click in your dashboard. After cancellation, your agent and memory keep running until the end of the billing period you've already paid for, so you don't lose anything mid-month. At the end of that period, we cleanly tear down your private instance, wipe the Honcho memory layer, and delete all your conversation data within 24 hours. You can also export everything beforehand from the dashboard — conversations, memory entries, settings — as a portable JSON archive you keep forever.

Zero touch on your side. We handle every update for you: the Hermes Agent core, the Honcho memory layer, all 70+ curated skills, the 10 community skills, security patches, dependency upgrades — everything. You always run the latest stable version. Updates are applied during low-traffic windows with zero downtime (your agent stays online during the rolling update). If a new feature requires opt-in, we notify you in the dashboard and you decide. If we ever ship something that breaks compatibility with how you use your agent, we maintain the previous version in parallel for at least 30 days.

Two paths. Path 1: open a feature request from your dashboard — we read every one, and the most requested features ship within weeks (we publish a public changelog). Path 2: HermesRecall lets you install community skills from a curated marketplace, and you can also write your own custom skill in TypeScript or Python and upload it to your private instance. Your skill stays private to your account. The 10 community skills currently available are vetted by us before being listed, so you don't have to worry about supply-chain risks.