AgynvsHermes Agent
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Agyn
Agyn · Agent harness
OSSMCP
Panel
6.61 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.8
- Usefulness
- 6.2
- Cost
- 7.2
- Longevity
- 6.3
“Serverless scale-to-zero with auto-termination on idle: the first coding agent that gets sent home for standing around.”
Hermes Agent
Nous Research · Agent harness
OSSMCP
Panel
6.84 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.2
- Usefulness
- 6.5
- Cost
- 7.2
- Longevity
- 7.2
“Reachable on Signal and by email, so you can now be left on read by an agent on six platforms.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Agyn | Hermes Agent |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Agent harness | Agent harness |
| Runs | local, cloud, sandbox | local, cloud, sandbox |
| Platforms | macos, linux, web | macos, linux, windows |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | Yes | Yes |
| MCP server | No | Yes |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | YesFiles are changed by the agent container Agyn runs, such as the bundled Claude Code or Codex agent. | Yes |
| Git operations | No | No |
| Browser control | No | Yes |
| Sandboxed execution | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-agent orchestration | Yes | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | YesAgents are declared as Terraform resources and run as serverless workloads with scale-to-zero; there is no dedicated CI action. | Yes |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Claude Code, Codex, any agent container | Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, Ollama, vLLM, llama.cpp |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | No | Yes |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | byok | byok |
| Starts at | $0/mo | $20/mo |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | Yes | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | MIT |
| GitHub stars | 239 | 250,643 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Agyn | Hermes Agent | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 6.0 | 7.0 | Hermes Agent — Pick Hermes Agent if you want an agent that writes its own skills and keeps running after you close the laptop; pick OpenClaw if you want a broader household assistant. |
| El Crítico | 6.0 | 6.3 | Hermes Agent — An agent that writes its own skills from experience ships behaviour nobody reviewed, and the first place it runs them is your own shell. |
| El Profesor | 7.3 | 6.8 | Agyn — The stated design principle is that credentials never enter the model context, with each conversation sandboxed and each MCP server isolated in its own container. |
| La Inversora | 5.8 | 6.8 | Hermes Agent — Nous Research gives the agent away and sells the Portal: 300-plus models, search, images and a cloud browser under one subscription from $20 a month, with a free tier as the funnel. |
| La Jefa | 7.0 | 5.3 | Agyn — Zero licence cost across sixty seats, with role-based access, single sign-on and audit logs in the product, and spend caps set per agent, per team and per organisation. |
| El Hacker | 7.8 | 8.5 | Hermes Agent — MIT, ~/.hermes with hermes config set, any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, Ollama, vLLM and llama.cpp, and MCP servers configured from the docs page; I can run this air-gapped. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.