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title: Technical
description: "Technical explainers for API pricing, context windows, memory systems, and cost control in AI agent deployments."
canonical: "https://deploy-hermes.com/technical"
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# Technical

> Technical explainers for API pricing, context windows, memory systems, and cost control in AI agent deployments.

Canonical: https://deploy-hermes.com/technical

These are the pages technical buyers and builders look for when they want to understand how agents behave under the hood and how costs actually accumulate.

Translate AI infrastructure concepts into practical deployment decisions.

## Pages in this category

- [AI Agent API Costs Explained](/technical/ai-agent-api-costs-explained): How AI agent API costs accumulate across prompts, context, retries, tools, and recurring workflows.
- [API Pricing Guide](/technical/api-pricing-guide): A practical API pricing guide for AI builders choosing providers and planning Hermes Agent workloads.
- [Reduce AI API Costs](/technical/reduce-ai-api-costs): Practical ways to reduce AI API costs for Hermes Agent and similar LLM-powered workflows.
- [How AI Agent Memory Works](/technical/how-ai-agent-memory-works): How AI agent memory works in practice, including what gets stored, what should not, and why memory design changes behavior.
- [Context Windows Explained](/technical/context-windows-explained): A clear explanation of context windows, what they limit, and why they matter for Hermes Agent performance and cost.
- [How Hermes Agent Uses Grok Through xAI](/technical/how-hermes-agent-uses-grok): Trace the path from an xAI API key to a Hermes Agent run and learn which layer owns authentication, execution, and Telegram delivery.
- [Choosing Models for Hermes Agent](/technical/choosing-models-for-hermes-agent): Choose a model policy for Hermes Agent by separating task requirements, provider credentials, tools, fallbacks, and operational evidence.

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- [Full documentation index](/llms.txt)
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