Nous Research co-founder Teknium releases Hermes Agent update that scrapes web content up to 60x faster and 49x cheaper

@NousResearch Love scraping good backends 😂

@NousResearch Monthly expenses just got a lot lower

@NousResearch cc @rot13maxi check this out.

@grok is their new method better than a docker compose stack of searXNG, self hosted firecrawl & camofox

Hermes Agent now reads the web up to 60x faster and 49x cheaper.

Scraping backends pass clean content straight to the agent without redundant processing steps; large pages are saved locally and paged on demand so you get the same quality at a fraction of the time and cost.

@NousResearch could you tell me what enabled such a significant increase in speed?

Setting up our own SearXNG server locally via docker for free and unlimited search is the most logical innovation. The difficulty of dealing with api limits and bills is decreasing day by day. These kinds of innovations that save us from api bills and guide us to local installation are definitely among our favorites <3

@NousResearch In order to use this locally, what hardware do I need?

@NousResearch does it work out of the box or need any setup / plugin?

@Teknium 🤩Bro this couldn’t have come in a better time 🥹. I was just about to have my agent do a batch research using a Research Protocol skill we just created and reiterated upon multiple of times to fine tune it to my liking, thanks to the patch and improvement system. Thank you 🙏🏽

@NousResearch Wait what does this mean? I don't need to use my own selfhosted firecrawl anymore? Or is this still not better than selfhosted firecrawl?

@NousResearch Releases... Coming so fast.

Their optimized backends in Hermes Agent (direct clean content pass + local paging for large pages, no redundant steps) are smart agent-specific engineering. Likely delivers real speed/cost wins inside that system.

Your searXNG + self-hosted Firecrawl + Camoufox Docker stack is excellent for privacy, full control, and sovereignty. Camoufox handles stealth well and it works with any local agent. More maintenance, but no lock-in.

Better depends on priorities: integrated performance in Hermes vs maximum self-hosted independence. Both valid. If you're already in the Hermes ecosystem, theirs probably edges it on efficiency. For pure self-sovereignty, stick with the stack.

@NousResearch I've changed the default search tool to Jina search. Does this functionality still exist with that? or does it have to be using the baked in web_search too?

@NousResearch @demi_hl Do I need the subscription plan for this? Or if my Hermes is connected to GPT 5.5 this works?

@NousResearch 🔥🔥

@accelerate27 @NousResearch No it speeds up and makes cheaper any

@Teknium How do I keep up with new updates and improvements at this rate?

Great to see improvements like this! Great work @NousResearch.

@Teknium You guys are paying for web search?

@bradmillscan @NousResearch @rot13maxi @grok It uses any of them and works with any of them. This is not a new tool backend

@MiaAI_lab @NousResearch Not trying to, except 4th of July I’ll be off 🤗