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Alternatives to Hermes Agent

Hermes Agent is an AI agent by Nous Research: Self-hosted agent from Nous Research that builds skills from experience and is reachable from the terminal and chat apps. If it doesn't fit your setup, these 12 AI agents cover similar ground. They are ordered by how closely they match Hermes Agent and by our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness and documentation; money never changes the order. OpenClaw leads the list (most GitHub stars here (392,925); active in the last 30 days). Each entry shows data reasons to switch, and you can open a side-by-side comparison with Hermes Agent.

Updated Oct 26, 2026 · Built from catalog data; how we rank and grade

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Hermes Agent

Self-hosted agent from Nous Research that builds skills from experience and is reachable from the terminal and chat apps

12 alternatives

Ordered by how closely each matches Hermes Agent (shared product, category or stated alternative) and by rank.

  1. 1
    OpenClaw

    OpenClaw

    Open-source personal AI assistant that runs on your own hardware and answers in the chat apps you already use

    • Most GitHub stars here (392,925)
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 392.9KLast active Oct 24, 2026

  2. 2
    nanobot

    HKU Data Intelligence Lab

    Lightweight self-hosted personal agent framework in Python with a WebUI, chat-app channels, memory and MCP

    • 49.3K GitHub stars
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 49.3KLast active Oct 24, 2026

  3. 3
    Claude Code

    Anthropic

    Anthropic's coding agent that reads your codebase, edits files and runs commands from the terminal, IDE, desktop app, web and Slack

    • 153.2K GitHub stars
    • Most weekly downloads here (7.2M)

    ★ 153.2K↓ 7.2M/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026

  4. 4
    nanoclaw

    nanocoai

    Small assistant that runs each agent in its own Linux container and connects to Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp and other chat apps

    • 31K GitHub stars
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 31KLast active Oct 23, 2026

  5. 5
    OpenCode

    Anomaly

    Open-source AI coding agent for the terminal, desktop and IDEs that connects to 75+ model providers

    • 220.9K GitHub stars
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 220.9KLast active Oct 24, 2026

  6. 6
    Cline

    Cline Bot Inc.

    Open-source coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, the terminal and a desktop app that asks for approval before each action

    • 70.8K GitHub stars
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 70.8KLast active Oct 24, 2026

  7. 7
    mercury-agent

    cosmicstack-labs

    Open-source background agent with local memory, permission rules and chat access from many apps.

    • 3.5K GitHub stars
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 3.5KLast active Oct 24, 2026

  8. 8
    Open Interpreter

    Open Interpreter

    Terminal coding agent, forked from OpenAI's Codex, tuned for low-cost open models and compatible with ACP editors

    • 68.7K GitHub stars
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 68.7KLast active Oct 11, 2026

  9. 9
    gptme

    gptme

    Open-source terminal AI agent that runs shell, Python and web tools on any model, including local ones.

    • 4.5K GitHub stars
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 4.5K↓ 6.1K/wkLast active Oct 21, 2026

  10. 10
    Gemini CLI

    Google

    Open-source terminal agent that queries and edits codebases and automates tasks with Gemini models

    • 107.7K GitHub stars
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 107.7K↓ 231.3K/wkLast active Oct 23, 2026

  11. 11
    Qwen Code

    Alibaba Qwen

    Open-source coding agent for the terminal, editor, desktop, browser and chat apps that works with Qwen, OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini APIs

    • 28.7K GitHub stars
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 28.7KLast active Oct 24, 2026

  12. 12
    Codewhale

    codewhale-hq

    Open-source Rust coding agent for the terminal that works with more than 40 model providers or local models

    • 41.1K GitHub stars
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 41.1KLast active Oct 24, 2026

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