Eigent vs Hermes Agent

Eigent

• People who want a desktop agent that runs on their own API keys or local models
• Long tasks that can be split among several agents working in parallel
• Teams that want to self-host and inspect the code they run

Hermes Agent

• Developers who want an agent on their own machine, server or VPS
• Reaching one agent from Telegram, Discord, Slack or WhatsApp
• Unattended scheduled jobs such as reports and briefings

Eigent

• Desktop only: the download page says Eigent is not supported on mobile or tablet.
• The Free plan's credits are a one-time 1,000 registration bonus plus invite bonuses; it has no monthly credit allowance.
• The Teams plan, with a shared library and centralized billing, is listed as Coming Soon.
• The docs mark the Telegram, Lark and WhatsApp channels and the X, WhatsApp, Reddit and GitHub connectors as Coming soon.

Hermes Agent

• The agent is free, but paid models cost extra: your own provider's rates, or Nous Portal tiers from $20 a month.
• Desktop apps are offered for macOS and Windows; on Linux the install is through the terminal.
• The platform support page lists no iOS version, and Android runs only through a prerelease Termux package.
• Hermes Cloud needs $2 of Nous credit or an active subscription to deploy, and bills inference separately from the instance.

Eigent

Single Agent and Workforce modes

Give a task to one agent, or to a Workforce that splits it among specialized workers running in parallel. You can define your own workers and choose the tools each one gets.

Spaces, Sessions and Tasks

A Space holds related Sessions and working files and can be tied to a local folder. Space profiles package agents, skills and connectors so the same setup is reused.

Browser agents

Agents navigate pages, click, type and capture screenshots in a managed or connected Chrome DevTools Protocol browser, and can use imported cookies for signed-in sessions.

Automations

Scheduled automations run recurring work, Event automations respond to webhooks and external events, and App automations react to events in connected applications.

Connectors and MCP

Guided connectors cover Notion, Slack, Google Calendar, Gmail, LinkedIn and Lark, and you can add a local or remote MCP server for a service that is not in the catalog.

Cloud, own-key or local models

Use managed Eigent Cloud models billed in credits, your own provider API keys, or local models served by Ollama, vLLM, SGLang, LM Studio or LLaMA.cpp.

Hermes Agent

Messaging gateway

One gateway connects the agent to Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Matrix, email, Microsoft Teams and other platforms, more than 20 in all, sharing a single memory.

Memory and self-written skills

The agent keeps memory across sessions, creates reusable skills from work it has done and revises them in use. Skills follow the open agentskills.io format.

Scheduled automations

Built-in cron accepts natural-language schedules for reports, backups and briefings and delivers the results to any connected platform.

Subagents

Isolated subagents with their own conversations and terminals handle parallel workstreams without filling the main agent's context.

Terminal backends and sandboxing

Commands run locally or in Docker, over SSH, or on Daytona, Singularity, Modal or Vercel Sandbox, with command approval and container isolation.

Nous Portal and Hermes Cloud

A Portal subscription supplies credits for 200+ models and hosted web search, image generation, text-to-speech and browser tools. Hermes Cloud hosts an always-on agent, billed daily.

Eigent

• Free$0

  1,000 registration credits, 500 credits per successful invite, free use with your own API keys or local models, and email and community support.

• Plus$19.99

  per month ($199.90 billed yearly)

  2,000 task credits a month, priority email support, and Claude and Grok models on top of the 16 models listed for Free.

• Pro$99.99

  per month ($999.90 billed yearly)

  Everything in Plus, with 10,000 task credits a month and high-priority user support.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Local deployment with enterprise security, custom features and integrations, agent training environments, invoice or PO billing and account management.

Hermes Agent

• Hermes Agent$0

  The complete MIT-licensed agent, run on your own machine or server with a model provider of your choice.

• Nous Portal Free$0

  Free models only, standard rate limits and no monthly credits.

• Nous Portal Plus$20

  per month

  $22 of monthly credits (a 10% bonus) with a $10 rollover cap, 200+ models, hosted tool usage and high rate limits.

• Nous Portal Super$100

  per month

  $110 of monthly credits with a $50 rollover cap, plus the same models, hosted tools and rate limits as Plus.

• Nous Portal Ultra$200

  per month

  $220 of monthly credits with a $100 rollover cap, plus the same models, hosted tools and rate limits as Plus.

• Hermes CloudFrom $0.56

  per day while running, billed from Nous credit

  Optional always-on hosting: Medium is $0.56 a day and Large $1.09 while running, $0.03 a day stopped. Inference and tool usage are billed separately.

Eigent

• Annual discount

  Two months free with yearly billing

  The pricing page labels yearly billing as 2 months free: Plus is $199.90 a year instead of $19.99 a month, and Pro is $999.90 a year instead of $99.99 a month.

Hermes Agent

No public discounts listed.