Cleric vs HolmesGPT
Cleric (Cleric) and HolmesGPT (Robusta (CNCF Sandbox)) side by side on public data, as of Oct 6, 2026.
HolmesGPT shipped 9 stable releases in the past 90 days.
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | Cleric | HolmesGPT |
|---|---|---|
| Pulse Score | 0 | 14 |
| Overall rank | #225 | #203 |
| Downloads, last 7 days | — | 2,330 |
| Downloads, 7-day change | — | up 24.5% |
| Downloads, 30-day change | — | down 26.0% |
| VS Code installs | — | — |
| Marketplace rating | — | — |
| GitHub stars | — | 3,511 |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | — | — |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 0 | 0 |
| Latest stable release | — | 0.42.0 · 20d ago |
| Stable releases, 90 days | 9 | |
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | — | — |
| Price | Free + $700/mo | Free (OSS) |
| License | Apache-2.0 | |
| First released | — | 2024 |
| Interfaces | — | — |
| Models |
Trends
Cleric
An AI SRE that checks deployed changes against production traffic, triages and investigates alerts and hands off fix pull requests; read-only by default.
Pricing: Credit plans at $0.50 per credit: Team $700/month, Pro $1,500/month, Scale $3,000/month, Enterprise custom; 500 free evaluation credits.
HolmesGPT
An open-source agent that investigates production incidents and alerts across Kubernetes, Prometheus, Datadog and other sources to find root causes; a CNCF Sandbox project that runs as a CLI or in-cluster operator.
Pricing: Free and open source (Apache-2.0); bring your own model API key.
Latest release 0.42.0:
- Add conversationlink chat field rendered into the system prompt
- Surface MCP structuredContent and drop null optional params
- Add configurable request timeout for New Relic toolset
- Anonymize project slug in MCP toolset test fixture