AutoGPT vs Hermes Agent
AutoGPT (Significant Gravitas) and Hermes Agent (Nous Research) side by side on public data, as of Oct 6, 2026.
Hermes Agent has 1.3x the GitHub stars of AutoGPT (251K against 188K). Hermes Agent shipped 17 stable releases in the past 90 days.
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | AutoGPT | Hermes Agent |
|---|---|---|
| Pulse Score | 38 | 54 |
| Overall rank | #74 | #27 |
| Downloads, last 7 days | — | 50.2K |
| Downloads, 7-day change | — | up 37.3% |
| Downloads, 30-day change | — | down 39.8% |
| VS Code installs | — | — |
| Marketplace rating | — | — |
| GitHub stars | 188K | 251K |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | — | 1,542 |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 1 | 25 |
| Latest stable release | 0.6.44 · 8mo ago | 2026.9.24 · 12d ago |
| Stable releases, 90 days | 0 | 17 |
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | — | — |
| Price | Free + $50/mo | Free (OSS) |
| License | MIT AND LicenseRef-PolyForm-Shield-1.0.0 | MIT |
| First released | March 2023 | February 2026 |
| Interfaces | Web | CLI, Messaging apps, Desktop |
| Models | Hundreds of models on the hosted platform; self-hosted installs use your own API keys | Any model: Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI and custom endpoints |
Trends
AutoGPT
Platform for building, deploying and running AI agents through a chat-based AutoPilot, a visual builder and a marketplace, offered as a paid hosted service or self-hosted. The original 2023 autonomous agent remains in the repository as AutoGPT Classic.
Pricing: Hosted platform: Pro $50/month (7-day free trial) and Max $320/month, Team coming soon; automation runs are pay-as-you-go from a credit wallet. Self-hosting is free (bring your own LLM keys).
Latest release 0.6.44:
- #11761 - Add ClaudeCodeBlock for executing tasks via Claude Code in E2B sandbox (by @Bentlybro)
- #11819 - Add external Agent Generator service integration (by @majdyz)
- #11828 - Add PostHog analytics and OpenRouter tracing to chat system (by @Swiftyos)
- #11833 - Implement clarification questions UI for agent generation (by @majdyz)
Hermes Agent
Open-source self-improving agent from Nous Research that keeps persistent memory, creates and refines skills from experience, runs scheduled automations, and works from a terminal interface or messaging apps such as Telegram, Discord, Slack and WhatsApp. It can run locally or on Docker, SSH, Modal and Daytona backends, and has a desktop app.
Pricing: Free and open source (MIT); users pay their chosen model providers (Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI or custom endpoints).
Latest release 2026.9.24:
- hermes update (git installs), or re-run the installer one-liner.
- Docker / Hermes Cloud: images build from this tag (nousresearch/hermes-agent:v2026.9.24).