# Asmi vs Hermes Agent (slim)

> Hermes Agent scores 67.9 (B) to Asmi's 33.3 (F) for assistants reached by message. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Hermes Agent scores 67.9 (B) on agent readiness against Asmi's 33.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants reached by message.

- Asmi: F 33.3, rank #973 of 1010 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/asmi.min.md
- Hermes Agent: B 67.9, rank #244 of 1010 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hermes-agent.min.md
- Asmi, good for An agent that needs phone calls, texts and emails to businesses done for its owner. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where Hermes Agent loses 3 points for them.
- Hermes Agent, 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 30; Schema & documentation, 80 against 20; Agent ergonomics, 80 against 43; Security & auth, 75 against 49; Payments & pricing, 60 against 30; Maintenance & community, 84 against 3; Transparency & trust, 63 against 51. Also No key needed to call it; Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Asmi | Hermes Agent |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 30 | 57 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 20 | 80 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 43 | 80 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 49 | 75 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 3 | 84 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 51 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Asmi | Hermes Agent |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Agent harness |
| Vendor | Humint Labs, Inc. | Nous Research |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://prod.asmiai.com/mcp/claude/` | no (local only) |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP |  |
| Auth | OAuth | None |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | Closed service under Asmi's Terms of Service (Humint Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation, effective October 2026). | MIT |
| Tools exposed | 12 | none |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | none | 2026-10-11 |
| Terms last updated |  | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | no document linked |
| Popularity | none | 253k stars |