Genspark vs Hermes Agent
Genspark (Genspark Inc. (MainFunc)) and Hermes Agent (Nous Research) side by side on public data, as of Oct 6, 2026.
Hermes Agent shipped 17 stable releases in the past 90 days.
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | Genspark | Hermes Agent |
|---|---|---|
| Pulse Score | 42 | 54 |
| Overall rank | #62 | #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 | 4.7 / 5 (4,283) | — |
| GitHub stars | — | 251K |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | — | 1,542 |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 0 | 25 |
| Latest stable release | — | 2026.9.24 · 12d ago |
| Stable releases, 90 days | 17 | |
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | — | — |
| Price | Free + $24.99/mo | Free (OSS) |
| License | Proprietary | MIT |
| First released | June 2024 | February 2026 |
| Interfaces | Web, Desktop, Mobile, Browser extension | CLI, Messaging apps, Desktop |
| Models | Orchestrates several frontier models (for example Claude Opus 5) plus in-house Gen-1, which is post-trained from MiniMax M3 | Any model: Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI and custom endpoints |
Trends
Genspark
AI workspace built around a Super Agent that plans and runs multi-step tasks in a sandbox with a real browser and filesystem, producing slides, sheets, documents, research and websites. It also offers a Chrome extension, an AI browser, a Claw personal agent that can run in the cloud or locally, and in-house models such as Gen-1.
Pricing: Free: 100 credits/day (lifetime cap) and 1 GB AI Drive. Plus $24.99/month ($19.99/month billed annually) with 10,000 credits/month; Pro $249.99/month ($199.99 annual) from 125,000 credits; Team $30/seat/month; Enterprise custom.
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).