I recently set up Hermes Agent on my Mac mini with Claude Sonnet 5 as its main model through OpenRouter.
I loaded $10 in credit and expected it to last at least a week, possibly even a month. After one day of moderate use, nearly all of it was gone.
I recently installed Hermes Agent on my Mac mini, where I already run OpenClaw.
OpenClaw has been stable and reliable for my use cases. I can reach it through Telegram when I am away from my computer, ask it to work on hobby projects, and use it as an always-available agent hosted at home.
I recently set up something I have wanted for a while: a hybrid AI agent system where my everyday agent can use both cloud models and a local model running on my own hardware.