# asaply vs Hermes Agent > Hermes Agent scores 67.9 (B) to asaply's 7.6 (F) for assistants reached by message. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-hermes-agent - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-hermes-agent.md (~3,450 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-hermes-agent.min.md (~580 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-hermes-agent.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json) - Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt) - API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json - Updated: 2026-10-13 Hermes Agent scores 67.9 (B) on agent readiness against asaply's 7.6 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants reached by message. - asaply: grade F, 7.6/100, rank #1006 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/asaply.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/asaply.json - Hermes Agent: grade B, 67.9/100, rank #244 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hermes-agent.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hermes-agent.json - Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md - All 834 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md ## Which one, for what ### asaply (F) Good for: People in covered neighbourhoods who want coffee, lunch, tickets and rides handled by text. Also in its favour: - No incidents deducted, where Hermes Agent loses 3 points for them Watch for: No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent. ### Hermes Agent (B) Good for: A technical owner who wants one always-on agent across chat apps with memory and scheduled jobs, on their own machine or a small server, with any model. Ahead on: - Reliability, 57 against 10 - Schema & documentation, 80 against 10 - Agent ergonomics, 80 against 0 - Security & auth, 75 against 0 - Payments & pricing, 60 against 0 - Maintenance & community, 84 against 2 - Transparency & trust, 63 against 43 Also in its favour: - No key needed to call it - Free to start without a card - Open source Watch for: The default terminal backend runs commands on the host, and the default `smart` mode lets an auxiliary model approve commands it rates low-risk ## Score by category | Category | Weight | asaply | Hermes Agent | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 10 | 57 | Hermes Agent +47 | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 10 | 80 | Hermes Agent +70 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 80 | Hermes Agent +80 | | Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 0 | 75 | Hermes Agent +75 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 60 | Hermes Agent +60 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 2 | 84 | Hermes Agent +82 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 43 | 63 | Hermes Agent +20 | | Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | | | **Total** | | **7.6 · F** | **67.9 · B** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | asaply | Hermes Agent | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Platform | Agent harness | | Vendor | Asaply Inc. | Nous Research | | Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) | | Transports | | | | Auth | OAuth or key | None | | Pricing | Pay per use | Free | | x402 | no | no | | Licence | Closed service under asaply's Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Messaging Terms (Asaply Inc., a Delaware corporation, last updated 11 October 2026). | MIT | | Read-only variant documented | no | no | | llms.txt | yes | yes | | Last release | none | 2026-10-11 | | Terms last updated | | no document linked | | Privacy policy last updated | | no document linked | | Customer content may train models | | | | Terms restrict automated access | | | | Terms restrict benchmarking | | | | Terms or service can change without notice | | | | Arbitration or class-action waiver | | | | Popularity | none | 253k stars | ## Verdicts **asaply.** asaply is a text-only errand assistant in early access that orders, books and pays through Apple Pay after showing the total, and can read and change a connected Google Calendar and Gmail. No outside agent can call it, the service fee isn't published, and no status page or security contact was found. **Hermes Agent.** Card payments always ask first and are refused in unattended sessions, and the messaging gateway denies every sender until an allowlist is set. Shell commands run on the host by default with a model judging risk, and sending mail through the Google Workspace skill is held back only by an instruction to the model. ## Before you call either ### asaply 1. Don't plan to call asaply from another agent. It answers only texts from the owner's phone number and group chats it joins. 2. Tell the owner each errand adds an unpublished service fee to the order total. ### Hermes Agent 1. Set `approvals.mode: manual` before giving it real accounts. The default `smart` lets an auxiliary model approve commands 2. Run the gateway with `terminal.backend: docker` or the project's Docker image when it reads mail, web pages or group chats 3. Set `memory.write_approval: true` and `skills.write_approval: true` to review what it saves about the owner 4. Leave `approvals.cron_mode` and `approvals.unattended_mode` at `deny` for scheduled and webhook runs 5. Set `TELEGRAM_ALLOWED_USERS` or the matching allowlist per channel. Never set `GATEWAY_ALLOW_ALL_USERS=true` ## Questions ### Which is better for AI agents, asaply or Hermes Agent? Hermes Agent scores 67.9 (B) on agent readiness against asaply's 7.6 (F), and leads in every scored category. ### Are asaply and Hermes Agent open source? No open-source release is listed for asaply. Hermes Agent is open source (MIT). ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-hermes-agent.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-hermes-agent.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "asaply", "b": "hermes-agent"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare asaply hermes-agent` - Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/asaply.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hermes-agent.json ## Other comparisons with asaply or Hermes Agent - [asaply vs Asmi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-asmi.md) - [asaply vs AstrBot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-astrbot.md) - [asaply vs Boba](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-boba.md) - [asaply vs Boski](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-boski.md) - [asaply vs Brea](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-brea.md) - [asaply vs Caddy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-caddy-app.md) - [asaply vs CowAgent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-cowagent.md) - [asaply vs Del](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-del.md) - [asaply vs folk](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-folk-nozomio.md) - [asaply vs GAIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-gaia.md) - 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[Hermes Agent vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-zo-computer.md) - [asaply vs Gemini Spark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-gemini-spark.md) - [asaply vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-leon.md) - [asaply vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-wajo.md) - [Hermes Agent vs Natura tinyNature](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-natura.md) - [Hermes Agent vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-pally.md) - [Hermes Agent vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-tomo.md) - [Hermes Agent vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-wajo.md) - [asaply vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-talorys.md) - [Hermes Agent vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-talorys.md) ## Disclosure - asaply competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. It's graded by the same published checklist as every listing, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed instead of keeping either award by default.