Hermes Agent
AI agent developed by Nous Research that combines coding and general task automation capabilities.
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How Hermes Agent compares
17 creators weighed in
OpenClaw
Direct rival
open source desktop AI agent
Peter and Imran switched from OpenClaw because it kept breaking; they say Hermes is more stable, with better memory and fewer restarts.
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Peter and Imran switched from OpenClaw because it kept breaking; they say Hermes is more stable, with better memory and fewer restarts.
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"If you really want to token max, you actually have to use something like Hermes Agent or Open Claw, and then you have to tune it all the way up. Like you're just like, give me a million tokens or 800,000 tokens into any given request."
Frontier model labs like ChatGPT and Claude constrain compute; Hermes Agent and Open Claw do not
"All of that infrastructure from OpenClaw and also from Hermes. You can just vibe it up now in two sentences and it'll create itself."
Used alongside OpenClaw
"I use OpenClaw and Hermes agent with GBrain."
Used alongside OpenClaw and GBrain as part of the same stack
"Hermes, I've never had that issue. It seems to be a much more dependable application. That's why I think I've been using the Hermes agent a little bit more lately. I think three Hermes agents I'm running — an Opus one, a ChatGPT one, and..."
More reliable than OpenClaw but lacks the impressive 'wow moments'; Alex runs both with failover between them
"The best thing about this agent is that it just feels reliable to use every day. I used to be on OpenClaw and it broke with every update, but ever since I switched to Hermes over a month ago, it hasn't broken a single time. It has persis..."
Switched from OpenClaw which broke with every update
GrokBot
Direct rival
cloud-based AI agent platform
Hermes runs locally on your own machine; GrokBot is cloud-based. Peter says Hermes gives more control and privacy, but requires more setup.
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Hermes runs locally on your own machine; GrokBot is cloud-based. Peter says Hermes gives more control and privacy, but requires more setup.
"Hermes is the only open source agent on this list and it gives me the most control. It runs on my Mac mini, and I talk to it through Telegram. Hermes agent does not collect telemetry, usage data, or analytics. Your conversations, memory,..."
Compared to Grok Bot's unknown cloud computer location — Hermes runs on his Mac mini so he knows exactly where his data is; switched many workflows to ChatGPT/Codex but keeps Hermes for scheduled reports
"I'm still using Hermes and Grokbot."
Mentioned alongside Grokbot and OpenClaw as successive entries in consumer AI agent products
"Hermes I run on my Mac Mini at home. It's on 24/7 and it gives it a persistent computer, but you have to go buy the machine and set everything up for yourself."
Compared to Grok Bot (easier setup, cloud-based) and ChatGPT (cloud-based but browser limitations)
"You had OpenClaw, then you got Hermes, and then you've got Grok Bot, and then you've got Meta Muse, and then you've got dots."
Listed alongside OpenClaw, Grok Bot, Meta Muse, dots
"Hermes Agent just raised 90 million. They're doing incredibly well. They're like the open-source version of Grokbot basically... This may actually be the cheapest way to use agents or at least use an agent that allows you to switch to an..."
Open-source version of Grokbot
Claude Code
Different focus
Anthropic's AI coding tool
Greg says master Claude Code first, then Hermes. Hermes lets you switch models; Claude Code locks you into one.
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Greg says master Claude Code first, then Hermes. Hermes lets you switch models; Claude Code locks you into one.
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"I don't think most people should use Hermes unless they have gotten good at either Codex or Claude Code. Level one is get good at Codex or Claude Code. Once you've done that and you can confidently say you're good at it, then Hermes and ..."
Positioned as an advanced step after mastering Codex or Claude Code; compared to Anthropic-only Claude Code which locks you into one model
"The self-improvement system, and that system really being a variety of little features inside of Hermes that all work together, is something very distinct and very special that makes it better and better and more aligned to a particular ..."
Compared to Claude Code, Codex, and ChatGPT — argues Hermes provides better capabilities than the native harnesses of those models
"Some other harnesses that I think people are pretty excited about are things like Hermes. I consider Hermes a harness that takes over your Mac Mini. I don't know if you've set it up yet."
Mentioned alongside Claude Code and Pi from Arendelle as examples of exciting AI harnesses
"I think 2027 will be the year of the AI harness war — is it going to be Codex? Is it going to be co-work Claude Code? Is it going to be OpenClaw Hermes?"
Listed alongside Codex and Claude Code as potential AI harness competitors
"You're starting to see this with Codex, Claude Code, OpenClaw, Hermes."
Listed alongside Codex, Claude Code, and OpenClaw as examples of business agents
What creators say
"I'm still using Hermes and Grokbot."
More from Peter Diamandis →+1 more mention from Peter
"You had OpenClaw, then you got Hermes, and then you've got Grok Bot, and then you've got Meta Muse, and then you've got dots."
"We ended up provisioning a fleet of 50 plus Hermes agents that were running in VMs. These were definitely pretty helpful but they required a lot of configuring for people to get value out of them. It was just inherently kind of difficult to manage..."
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"Hermes is the only open source agent on this list and it gives me the most control. It runs on my Mac mini, and I talk to it through Telegram. Hermes agent does not collect telemetry, usage data, or analytics. Your conversations, memory, and skill..."
More from Peter Yang →+4 more mentions from Peter
"Hermes I run on my Mac Mini at home. It's on 24/7 and it gives it a persistent computer, but you have to go buy the machine and set everything up f..."
"For me to use Hermes or some other agent to actually look at my Gmail, I had to go to Google Cloud Console and connect all these APIs and download ..."
"If you really want to token max, you actually have to use something like Hermes Agent or Open Claw, and then you have to tune it all the way up. Like you're just like, give me a million tokens or 800,000 tokens into any given request."
More from Garry Tan →+3 more mentions from Garry
"I use OpenClaw and Hermes agent with GBrain."
"I think 2027 will be the year of the AI harness war — is it going to be Codex? Is it going to be co-work Claude Code? Is it going to be OpenClaw He..."
"All of that infrastructure from OpenClaw and also from Hermes. You can just vibe it up now in two sentences and it'll create itself."
More from Salim Ismail →"I started playing with this Hermes agent — which is not a French company by the way, they just use French names, it's Nous Research or whatever it is. I started playing with that. It's a very peculiar piece of software but it's a very open piece o..."
More from Jason Calacanis →+1 more mention from Jason
"Who's using Hermes agent? Okay, there you go."
"Hermes, I've never had that issue. It seems to be a much more dependable application. That's why I think I've been using the Hermes agent a little bit more lately. I think three Hermes agents I'm running — an Opus one, a ChatGPT one, and one on a ..."
More from Alex Finn →+1 more mention from Alex
"I've been using Hermes agent pretty significantly over the last few weeks. I do think it is a very strong tool. It's worth using side by side with ..."
"We work with Hermes agent — we have a deep integration with that team. We ask agents to be like, 'When you're done, make a HyperFrames video, tell me what you did in 30 seconds.'"
More from Bin Liu →"I highly suggest using Hermes. It has a built-in memory system, it's more stable, and I haven't had to restart it in over a week, which is way better than what happened with OpenClaw."
More from Imran Muthuvappa →"I use a tool called Hermes agent. Essentially, it's OpenClaw but on steroids."
More from Vadim →
"Most people I know who've tried Hermes and OpenClaw, they just think Hermes is a better version of OpenClaw. It has better built-in skills. It has better memory. It has better personality. And there's just less issues."
More from Riley Brown →+2 more mentions from Riley
"Hermes Agent just raised 90 million. They're doing incredibly well. They're like the open-source version of Grokbot basically... This may actually ..."
"The AI tool that does this the most is actually the Hermes agent, which is kind of just a better version of OpenClaw. Their AI agent is really good..."
"I don't think most people should use Hermes unless they have gotten good at either Codex or Claude Code. Level one is get good at Codex or Claude Code. Once you've done that and you can confidently say you're good at it, then Hermes and having a s..."
More from Greg Isenberg →+2 more mentions from Greg
"You can use something like Hermes to do that. Hermes is the most used agent in the world right now, I would say. It's definitely gaining the most a..."
"You're starting to see this with Codex, Claude Code, OpenClaw, Hermes."
"All the open source stuff is cool, but it's cool to us... A lot of the startups have already taken Hermes and stuff and put that into a better wrapper, like a Victor."
More from Liam Ottley →
"When you look at these luxury houses like Hermès or Brunello Cucinelli, they're able to command that premium because of storytelling."
More from Shift Fashion Group →"We saw OpenClaw take off and subsequently the Hermes project, the Hermes agent project, take off, which has then opened up that ability to automate a huge chunk of work over a long span of time to non-developers too."
More from Jeffrey Morgan →"The ability to run Claude away from your computer or have it run on its own — something like OpenClaw or like a Hermes — is really really critical to do more of these things and to achieve more."
More from Daniel Blum →
"If you're looking for that highly tunable, highly hackable, highly transparent setup for your agent, Grok Bot is not that. OpenClaw or Hermes or any of those is a little bit more like that."
More from Claire Vo →
"Hey, maybe I just plug in my API key for NGL and use that in my Hermes agent."
More from This Week in Startups →+1 more mention from This
"My next goal is to connect those two. So then I would theoretically be putting all this into my Hermes agent or maybe an Obsidian locker."
"The self-improvement system, and that system really being a variety of little features inside of Hermes that all work together, is something very distinct and very special that makes it better and better and more aligned to a particular user. Toda..."
More from Karan Malhotra →"You need to build your own domain-specific AIs. Now you have Hermes and you have Open Claude, you've got LangChain, deep agent — you've got all these different ways to build your own AI. And I'm so excited about the work that the Hermes team is do..."
More from Jensen Huang →
"I haven't even tried Hermes yet."
More from Ryan Carson →"they built this custom JavaScript virtual machine called Hermes"
More from Charlie Chver →"We just put out Hermes agent. So, I think people are just starting to get used to a kind of different way to interact with AI that maybe they're not as used to that's like blowing people's mind."
More from Dylan Rolnick →
"OpenClaw, Hermes agent, buying a Mac Mini... Setting up a virtual computer, going in your terminal, stuff I know almost nothing about. Tedious, annoying, whatever."
"The other agent harnesses that were kind of doing this, like OpenClaw or Hermes, they were just on your desktop. So if your computer went to sleep, they would stop."
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