--- title: "Hermes Agent vs OpenClaw — AI hype compared · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/compare/hermes_agent-vs-openclaw as_of: 2026-10-29 updated: 2026-10-30T16:24:07Z --- # Hermes Agent vs OpenClaw [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Compare](https://abovethefog.app/compare.md) › Hermes Agent vs OpenClaw [Hermes Agent](https://abovethefog.app/topics/hermes_agent.md) and [OpenClaw](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openclaw.md) 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 | Measure | Hermes Agent | OpenClaw | |---|---|---| | Stage | 💤 Quiet | 💤 Quiet | | Hype score | 0.8 | 8.9 | | 7-day change | −14.2 | +5.8 | | In hype since | not in hype now | not in hype now | | Peak, 30 days | 40.2 on Oct 8, 2026 | 18.9 on Oct 15, 2026 | | Stories in 7 days | 13 | 53 | | Share of voice, 7 days | 0.1% | 0.4% | | Sources above normal | 0 of 19 | 1 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. | Day | Hermes Agent | OpenClaw | |---|---:|---:| | Oct 29, 2026 | 0.8 | 8.9 | | Oct 28, 2026 | 1.1 | 1 | | Oct 27, 2026 | 1.6 | 0 | | Oct 26, 2026 | 1 | 0 | | Oct 25, 2026 | 0 | 0.4 | | Oct 24, 2026 | 0 | 0 | | Oct 23, 2026 | 1.2 | 3.1 | | Oct 22, 2026 | 15 | 3.1 | | Oct 21, 2026 | 15 | 12 | | Oct 20, 2026 | 13.8 | 1.1 | | Oct 19, 2026 | 3.8 | 1.4 | | Oct 18, 2026 | 0.6 | 11.1 | | Oct 17, 2026 | 15.2 | 10.2 | | Oct 16, 2026 | 11.6 | 1.6 | | Oct 15, 2026 | 28.8 | 18.9 | | Oct 14, 2026 | 28.8 | 15 | | Oct 13, 2026 | 27.6 | 0.6 | | Oct 12, 2026 | 29.8 | 3.7 | | Oct 11, 2026 | 26.7 | 1.5 | | Oct 10, 2026 | 14.8 | 0 | | Oct 9, 2026 | 14.2 | 0.8 | | Oct 8, 2026 | 40.2 | 1.8 | | Oct 7, 2026 | 24.6 | 0.8 | | Oct 6, 2026 | 16.7 | 0.5 | | Oct 5, 2026 | 14.7 | 0 | | Oct 4, 2026 | 14.9 | 0 | | Oct 3, 2026 | 16.3 | 1.4 | | Oct 2, 2026 | 24 | 0 | | Oct 1, 2026 | 26.2 | 2.6 | | Sep 30, 2026 | 27.1 | 4 | ## 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): - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 50% of Hermes Agent’s stories, 85% of OpenClaw’s - [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 50% of Hermes Agent’s stories, 31% of OpenClaw’s ## Hermes Agent: stories behind it 1. [Cách cài AI tại nhà Bảo Mật & Miễn Phí với Local AI \(Ollama + Hermes Agent\)](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c%C3%A1ch-c%C3%A0i-ai-t%E1%BA%A1i-nh%C3%A0-b%E1%BA%A3o-m%E1%BA%ADt-mi%E1%BB%85n-ph%C3%AD-v%E1%BB%9Bi-local-ai-ollama/id1617428299?i=1000798671805&uo=4) — Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) (Huy Dao Podcast) · Oct 29 2. [Hermes Paper Harness: Native SwiftUI iPhone Client for Hermes Agent](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50278175) — Hacker News (apps.apple.com) · Oct 28 · score 1 · 0 comments 3. [Hermes Agent Ran Unattended Against Thai Finance Ministry](https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMihwFBVV95cUxPeURjYkJPeElsNzdHbERZQTNwODMxU1g4QUxtUTZvUkNuaF9JU29PVUtMWC1NSWxpVEFueF9KcWN4N2hhMFZETzdUV3BzeS1lc2lJSlEta0ZDSVMtS0lQWUxJc1hZdzVfLXRuQmFiQi1HNmhPVWtMMFprNW8ycFJyQzZDNWZ3Qmc?oc=5) — Google News (RSS) (OrcaRouter) · Oct 30 4. [DeepSeek "Personality"](https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepSeek/comments/1xhwtmn/) — 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](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1xj182d/) — Reddit (r/LocalLLaMA) · Oct 30 ## OpenClaw: stories behind it 1. [My OpenClaw bot was keeping a ‘Dream Diary’ which I was unaware about.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1xhng79/) — 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](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xhy1b2/) — 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.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xhxua5/) — Reddit (r/ClaudeAI) · Oct 28 · score 1 · 0 comments 4. [An OpenClaw Skill for Exchange Rates: Stop Your Agent Guessing the USD/EUR Rate](https://dev.to/viraj_geeth_e6dc448fe4d43/an-openclaw-skill-for-exchange-rates-stop-your-agent-guessing-the-usdeur-rate-2961) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Oct 29 · score 0 · 0 comments 5. [How to Connect OpenClaw to Assindo \(Add the Assindo MCP Server\)](https://dev.to/assindo/how-to-connect-openclaw-to-assindo-add-the-assindo-mcp-server-3440) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Oct 29 · score 0 · 0 comments ## More comparisons - [DeepSeek Harness vs Hermes Agent](https://abovethefog.app/compare/deepseek_harness-vs-hermes_agent.md) - [Grok Bot vs Hermes Agent](https://abovethefog.app/compare/grok_bot-vs-hermes_agent.md) - [Hermes Agent vs Meta Muse](https://abovethefog.app/compare/hermes_agent-vs-meta_muse.md) - [DeepSeek Harness vs OpenClaw](https://abovethefog.app/compare/deepseek_harness-vs-openclaw.md) - [Grok Bot vs OpenClaw](https://abovethefog.app/compare/grok_bot-vs-openclaw.md) --- Updated Oct 30, 2026, 16:24 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/compare/hermes_agent-vs-openclaw) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)