🔧 Best Cheap AI Models for Hermes Agent — Under $1/M Tokens

Originally published on Remote OpenClaw.


The cheapest high-quality model for Hermes Agent is DeepSeek V4 at $0.30 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens, with cache hits dropping the effective input cost to $0.03 per million tokens. As of April 2026, at least seven models cost under $1 per million input tokens and handle...