Above the Fog

Hermes Agent vs OpenClaw

Hermes Agent and OpenClaw side by side on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar, on Oct 29, 2026: Hermes Agent is 💤 Quiet with a hype score of 1 and OpenClaw is 💤 Quiet with 9. The radar’s curated relations list them as competitors.

Data note: 7 of the last 14 days were not collected live. No collection ran on Oct 22–Oct 28, or a later run refilled those days at once. Every hype score is measured against the 14 days before it and those days are thin, so the scores, the stages and the week-over-week theme trends may read higher than they are until they leave that window on Nov 12.

At a glance

MeasureHermes AgentOpenClaw
Stage💤 Quiet💤 Quiet
Hype score0.88.9
7-day change−14.2+5.8
In hype sincenot in hype nownot in hype now
Peak, 30 days40.2 on Oct 8, 202618.9 on Oct 15, 2026
Stories in 7 days1353
Share of voice, 7 days0.1%0.4%
Sources above normal0 of 191 of 19
Category🤖 Agents🤖 Agents

Hype score, last 30 days

Both hype scores by day, newest first; on the page’s chart, Hermes Agent is the solid line and OpenClaw the dashed one.

DayHermes AgentOpenClaw
Oct 29, 20260.88.9
Oct 28, 20261.11
Oct 27, 20261.60
Oct 26, 202610
Oct 25, 202600.4
Oct 24, 202600
Oct 23, 20261.23.1
Oct 22, 2026153.1
Oct 21, 20261512
Oct 20, 202613.81.1
Oct 19, 20263.81.4
Oct 18, 20260.611.1
Oct 17, 202615.210.2
Oct 16, 202611.61.6
Oct 15, 202628.818.9
Oct 14, 202628.815
Oct 13, 202627.60.6
Oct 12, 202629.83.7
Oct 11, 202626.71.5
Oct 10, 202614.80
Oct 9, 202614.20.8
Oct 8, 202640.21.8
Oct 7, 202624.60.8
Oct 6, 202616.70.5
Oct 5, 202614.70
Oct 4, 202614.90
Oct 3, 202616.31.4
Oct 2, 2026240
Oct 1, 202626.22.6
Sep 30, 202627.14

Shared themes

What the stories of both topics in the last 7 days are about, as classified by the Jev model (a story can carry several themes):

Hermes Agent: stories behind it

  1. Cách cài AI tại nhà Bảo Mật & Miễn Phí với Local AI (Ollama + Hermes Agent) — Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) (Huy Dao Podcast) · Oct 29
  2. Hermes Paper Harness: Native SwiftUI iPhone Client for Hermes Agent — Hacker News (apps.apple.com) · Oct 28 · score 1 · 0 comments
  3. Hermes Agent Ran Unattended Against Thai Finance Ministry — Google News (RSS) (OrcaRouter) · Oct 30
  4. DeepSeek "Personality" — Reddit (r/DeepSeek) · Oct 28 · score 22 · 17 comments
  5. 10 coding agents, one Qwen 3.8 27B, same llama-server: tokens and cache reuse differ more than pass rates — Reddit (r/LocalLLaMA) · Oct 30

OpenClaw: stories behind it

  1. My OpenClaw bot was keeping a ‘Dream Diary’ which I was unaware about. — Reddit (r/ChatGPT) · Oct 28 · score 16 · 11 comments
  2. "Claude Opus 5.5 is insane: It one-shotted a 3D game where my AI agents (Claude Code, OpenClaw, Hermes) actually work — Reddit (r/ClaudeAI) · Oct 28 · score 1 · 1 comment
  3. "Claude Opus 5.5 is insane: It Created 3D game where my AI agents (Claude Code, OpenClaw, Hermes) actually work 24 Hours on ultracode. — Reddit (r/ClaudeAI) · Oct 28 · score 1 · 0 comments
  4. An OpenClaw Skill for Exchange Rates: Stop Your Agent Guessing the USD/EUR Rate — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Oct 29 · score 0 · 0 comments
  5. How to Connect OpenClaw to Assindo (Add the Assindo MCP Server) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Oct 29 · score 0 · 0 comments

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