What is LightVela?
LightVela hosts the Hermes Agent in the cloud, keeping your personal assistant online at all times without requiring your computer to stay powered on. After creating an assistant, selecting a model, and confirming its operational status, you can connect to supported chat channels to assign tasks, provide context, and track progress—all within familiar conversational interfaces.
The service offers long-term memory, personalized preferences, scheduled tasks, and skill extensions, and can also create and modify web pages during conversations. The official website showcases use cases such as project scheduling, document organization, weekly work reports, knowledge bases, and reminders. For critical external actions like sending or modifying data, a confirmation step is in place, requiring users to explicitly authorize the scope of execution.
Cloud environment, number of bots, storage, and model credits vary depending on the plan; do not interpret continuous online availability as unlimited free model calls. Notification and script-based scheduled tasks consume resources differently from tasks that require model generation; before connecting to chat platforms, storing data, or configuring long-term memory, be sure to verify channel permissions, credit expiration dates, and the scope of personal information you need to retain.
Key features
Cloud-based operation: No need for a personal computer to remain continuously powered on.
Chat integration: WeChat, QQ, WeCom, DingTalk, and Feishu.
Continuous Collaboration: Long-term Memory, Preferences, and Scheduled Tasks.
Extensibility: Skills, web page creation, and confirmation of key actions.
Use cases and audience
Individuals and teams who want to use a long-term online assistant on chat platforms to handle schedules, documents, and repetitive tasks.
- Regularly organize project statuses and weekly reports.
- Query knowledge resources and follow up on tasks in the chat.
- Execute scheduled reminders and authorized script tasks.
Dialogue tasks, work context, scheduling rules, as well as information on authorized channels and skill support.
Answers, documentation and task results, reminders, and execution progress.
How to use
- 01
First, verify the plan, model credits, and required channels.
- 02
Create an assistant, select a model, and confirm the running status.
- 03
The connection has been authorized to the chat channel, indicating the task and its boundaries.
- 04
Check the results and points, and confirm each item for external operations.
Benefits and limitations
Benefits
- Cloud hosting integrated with common chat access points.
- Memory, timing, and skill concentration configuration.
Limitations
- Model credits and cloud plan benefits must be verified separately.
- Long-term memory and channel connections require carefully configured permissions.
Pricing and availability
Free entry available
2026-10-24 Verification of official website monthly plans and referral credit tiers: The “Sailing” plan includes 5 bots, a 2-core 8GB environment, 50GB of storage, and 4,500 credits per month; the first order comes with one free month, and the page lists the original price as ¥68/month. The “Cruise” plan includes 10 bots, a 4-core 16GB configuration, 80GB of storage, and 10,000 credits per month; the first month costs ¥94.80, with an indicated original price of ¥158/month. The promotional first month does not reflect the renewal rate. Additionally, purchased credit packages are valid for one month and apply only to active plans; any unused credits expire upon expiration. Actual renewal rates, quarterly plans, and billing terms are subject to the purchase page.
- Pricing source
- https://lightvela.com/subscribe
- Pricing last updated
- 2026-10-24
Prices and limits may change. Check the official website for current terms.
Official website & sources
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Updated on 2026-10-24

