Hermes Agent vs LobeHub

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

LobeHub

• People who want several agents working on scheduled tasks in the cloud
• Reaching agents from Slack, Discord, Telegram or WhatsApp
• Developers who want to self-deploy an agent workspace and use their own API keys

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.

LobeHub

• Cloud usage is metered in credits that reset monthly; the Free plan's 500,000 credits are about 70 messages on GLM-5.3-Flash.
• GPT-6 Astra, Claude Opus 5.5 and Kimi K3 are marked Subscription required on the Free plan.
• The docs note that the desktop app is not fully offline: cloud models, sync and online tools still need a connection.
• The code uses the LobeHub Community License, based on Apache 2.0: distributing a derivative work needs a commercial license.

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.

LobeHub

Agent Builder

Describe the agent you need in a sentence and its name, role, skills and behavior are set up automatically, ready to use or to adjust.

Agent Groups

Several agents work on one task as a team: the system picks the agents for the job, runs them in parallel and iterates on the result.

Skills and MCP marketplaces

Agents are connected to skills and MCP servers from community marketplaces. The homepage counts more than 334,000 skills and 106,000 MCP servers.

Messaging channels

The docs cover channels for Slack, Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp, WeChat, iMessage, LINE, Lark, Feishu and QQ, so agents answer in the chat apps you already use.

Pages, schedules and projects

Pages are documents written with several agents in a shared context, scheduled tasks run agents at set times, and projects keep related work together.

Personal memory

Agents build a structured memory of how you work that you can read and edit. Agent Memory is listed on the Starter plan and above.

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.

LobeHub

• Free$0

  500,000 credits a month, 15 MB of file storage, 100 vector entries, and email and community forum support.

• Community EditionFree

  The open-source edition, self-deployed with Docker or a cloud host under the LobeHub Community License and run on your own model API keys.

• Starter$9.9

  per month, billed yearly ($118.8); $12.9 billed monthly

  5,000,000 credits a month, 1 GB of file storage, 5,000 vector entries, Agent Memory and early access to new models.

• Premium$19.9

  per month, billed yearly ($238.8); $24.9 billed monthly

  15,000,000 credits a month, 2 GB of file storage, 10,000 vector entries and priority email support.

• Ultimate$39.9

  per month, billed yearly ($478.8); $49.9 billed monthly

  35,000,000 credits a month, 4 GB of file storage, 20,000 vector entries and priority chat and email support.

• Enterprise EditionCustom

  Private deployment with a commercial license, brand theming, user management, self-hosted providers, private models and custom integration.

Hermes Agent

No public discounts listed.

LobeHub

• Annual discount

  20% off with yearly billing

  The pricing page labels yearly billing as 20% off: Starter is $118.8 a year instead of $12.9 a month, Premium $238.8 instead of $24.9 and Ultimate $478.8 instead of $49.9.

• Education

  50% off for students and educators

  The pricing FAQ offers eligible students and education institutions a 50% discount code, requested by email from a school address with proof of status.