{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "haven", "name": "Haven", "vendor": "Hello Haven, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://my.hellohaven.ai", "kind": "platform", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "Hosted personal AI assistant from Hello Haven, Inc. that a person reaches by phone call, text message, email, web or mobile app. It keeps a memory of the user and carries out tasks for them. In beta.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/haven", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/haven.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/haven.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/haven.json", "license": "Proprietary service under Hello Haven's Terms of Service", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "A person signs up at my.hellohaven.ai/gethaven with an invite code and signs in at app.hellohaven.ai, or reaches Haven from their own phone number or email address. The sign-in method was not read, because the app is behind a sign-in. No API key, OAuth app or other developer credential was found. The terms say Haven connects with the user's email, calendar, cloud storage, messaging and other services, and the privacy policy says authentication credentials for connected services are shared with those providers. Provider names, scopes and where tokens are stored were not found (https://my.hellohaven.ai/terms; https://my.hellohaven.ai/privacy).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free during beta with full access and no card, per the plans page. The FAQ says there are no usage limits, that prices are not set, and that users will get notice before charges begin. The terms mention subscription billing through a payment processor but no price is published (https://my.hellohaven.ai/plans; https://my.hellohaven.ai/faq, checked 2026-10-12).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on the site, the plans page or the terms, and no API to carry one (checked 2026-10-12).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-12" }, "docsUrl": "https://my.hellohaven.ai/faq", "capabilities": [ "assistant.proactive", "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "beta", "free", "phone", "sms", "email", "voice", "ios", "android", "status-page" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-17", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 22.2, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 977, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 986, "categoryRank": 19, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 6, "maintenance": 35, "payments": 30, "reliability": 35, "schema": 4, "security": 13, "transparency": 51 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-10-12" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Haven answers by phone call, text, email and app, is free in beta with no card, and publishes a status page with dated incidents. No public page read says which actions need approval, which accounts it connects or how their tokens are kept, and it names no model provider or sub-processor.", "bestFor": "A consumer assistant for one person who wants to phone, text or email it and have it remember them.", "strengths": [ "Free during beta with no card and no usage limits, per the plans page and FAQ (checked 12 October 2026).", "One assistant on phone call, SMS, email, voice, web and mobile app, with a published phone number and email address.", "Statuspage site with eight components, including Phone Calls, SMS Chat and Scheduled Tasks \u0026 Reminders, and four dated incidents since May 2026.", "The data page says memory can be viewed, edited, exported and wiped in the app, with deleted data leaving backups within 30 days.", "The privacy policy names Hello Haven, Inc. with a street address in Park City, Utah, and was last updated on 24 July 2026." ], "weaknesses": [ "No approval setting or list of actions that need confirmation was found on the public pages. The terms say it sends emails, SMS and calls following the user's instructions.", "Connected accounts are described only by type (email, calendar, cloud storage, messaging). No provider names, scopes or token storage statement were found.", "Model providers and sub-processors are listed by category only. The policy says the list is available on request by email.", "No API, MCP server, developer docs, changelog, security.txt or disclosure policy was found. The press release says a developer platform is planned.", "Two voice outages (23 May and 15 August 2026) were caused by billing errors with a provider, per the status page.", "The terms allow the vendor to suspend, modify or terminate the service at any time, and say continued use accepts updated terms." ], "agentNotes": [ "Haven has no documented API or MCP server. An outside agent can reach it only through the owner's channels (call, SMS, email, app).", "Do not assume an approval step before Haven sends mail, texts or calls. None is documented on the public pages.", "Email Haven sends to other people names Hello Haven as sender and says it was sent on the user's behalf, per the terms.", "Chat messages, history, profile context and uploaded files go to third-party AI model providers that the vendor does not name.", "Check status.hellohaven.ai before relying on phone or voice. All four published incidents affected those channels." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 22.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 6, "maintenance": 35, "payments": 30, "reliability": 35, "schema": 4, "security": 13, "transparency": 37 }, "provenanceScore": 64 }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive", "tool": "https://letme.dev/haven" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Hello Haven, Inc.", "domain": "hellohaven.ai", "domainRegistered": "2024-11-21", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://my.hellohaven.ai/terms", "privacy": "https://my.hellohaven.ai/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.hellohaven.ai/", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-12", "notes": [ "The privacy policy names Hello Haven, Inc. with a street address in Park City, Utah 84098. The terms are governed by Utah law with disputes heard in Salt Lake City.", "my.hellohaven.ai/.well-known/security.txt answered 404 on 12 October 2026. No disclosure policy was found.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 2024-11-21 for hellohaven.ai, registrar GoDaddy.com, LLC, registrant private.", "The app is at app.hellohaven.ai, linked from every page. We did not open it.", "The terms and privacy pages are drawn by script. Our reader received their text and a plain request received an empty page." ], "score": 64 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/haven.json", "live": { "slug": "haven", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.hellohaven.ai", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-12T18:56:37.37398695Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-12T18:56:37.37398695Z" } }, "answer": "Hermes Agent scores 67.9 (B) on agent readiness against Haven's 22.2 (F), and leads in every scored category.", "b": { "slug": "hermes-agent", "name": "Hermes Agent", "vendor": "Nous Research", "vendorUrl": "https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com", "kind": "harness", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "Open-source personal agent from Nous Research that the owner runs on a computer or server. It answers on messaging apps, keeps memory between sessions, runs scheduled jobs and connects to accounts, models and MCP servers the owner configures.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hermes-agent", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hermes-agent.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hermes-agent.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hermes-agent.json", "repo": "https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent", "license": "MIT", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "oci", "name": "nousresearch/hermes-agent" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "No account of its own. Model and channel keys go in `~/.hermes/.env` or come from Bitwarden, 1Password or a command helper at start-up. Google Workspace, MCP servers and Nous Portal sign in by OAuth, with tokens stored under `~/.hermes/`. The optional API server takes a bearer key set in `API_SERVER_KEY`.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free under the MIT licence. The owner pays the model provider chosen, or nothing with a local model. Nous Portal plans ($0, $20, $100 and $200 a month in credits) and Hermes Cloud hosting ($0.51 a day running on the Standard size, plus inference) are optional and sold separately.", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on Hermes Agent's own interfaces. An optional skill lets the agent pay other services over MPP, which is a client and not a way to pay for Hermes (checked 2026-10-12).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 253000, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-12" }, "docsUrl": "https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/", "llmsTxt": "https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "assistant.proactive", "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "assistant.self-hosted", "agent.mcp-client" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "self-hosted", "local", "free", "no-card", "python", "docker", "llms-txt", "pre-1.0" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-11", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 67.9, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 244, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 986, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 80, "maintenance": 84, "payments": 60, "reliability": 57, "schema": 80, "security": 75, "transparency": 63 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-12" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-08. The v0.21.6 release notes list six security fixes, among them a native sign-in flaw that could send login codes to a non-loopback redirect and a quoted display name in the `From` header that affected the email gateway's sender check. SECURITY.md counts unauthorised access to an external surface as in scope, yet the repository shows no published advisory, so owners on older versions have no advisory to act on. Fixed and described in the notes, -3. https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v0.21.6; https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/security/advisories" ], "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "Every saved-card fill asks for approval, and cron, webhook and API sessions are refused because nobody can confirm", "The messaging gateway denies all senders until an allowlist or a pairing code approved on the CLI is in place", "The docs say no telemetry, usage data or analytics is collected, and conversations, memory and skills stay in `~/.hermes/`", "SECURITY.md states that in-process checks are not a boundary and names OS-level isolation as the only one", "Ten releases between 19 August and 11 October 2026, the latest v0.21.7 on 11 October" ], "weaknesses": [ "The default terminal backend runs commands on the host, and the default `smart` mode lets an auxiliary model approve commands it rates low-risk", "The Google Workspace skill requests full Gmail, Calendar and Drive scopes, and its confirm-before-sending rule is an instruction in SKILL.md, not enforced in code", "Memory writes are saved without approval by default (`memory.write_approval: false`), including from a background review after each turn", "Release v0.21.6 of 8 October 2026 lists six security fixes and the repository has no published security advisory", "15,102 open issues and more than 5,000 open pull requests on 12 October 2026", "The Nous Portal terms grant Nous a licence to train models on customer data when the Portal is the model provider" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set `approvals.mode: manual` before giving it real accounts. The default `smart` lets an auxiliary model approve commands", "Run the gateway with `terminal.backend: docker` or the project's Docker image when it reads mail, web pages or group chats", "Set `memory.write_approval: true` and `skills.write_approval: true` to review what it saves about the owner", "Leave `approvals.cron_mode` and `approvals.unattended_mode` at `deny` for scheduled and webhook runs", "Set `TELEGRAM_ALLOWED_USERS` or the matching allowlist per channel. Never set `GATEWAY_ALLOW_ALL_USERS=true`" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 67.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 80, "maintenance": 84, "payments": 60, "reliability": 57, "schema": 80, "security": 75, "transparency": 73 }, "provenanceScore": 53 }, "connect": { "install": "curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash # then: hermes setup", "headless": { "command": "hermes chat -q \"$TASK\" --format stream-json --max-turns 30" } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive", "tool": "https://letme.dev/hermes-agent" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Nous Research, Inc.", "domain": "nousresearch.com", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-12", "notes": [ "The site footer reads Nous Research, Inc., and the Nous Portal terms name it as a Delaware corporation.", "No terms or privacy link is given. The Nous Portal terms and privacy policy (both dated 28 September 2026) govern the optional Portal and Hermes Cloud services, not the software the owner runs under the MIT licence, so the licence stands in.", "hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 404. SECURITY.md in the repository gives security@nousresearch.com and GitHub private reporting.", "No status page applies to software the owner runs. None was looked for on the Portal.", "The domain registration date was not looked up." ], "score": 53 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hermes-agent.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "Platform", "b": "Agent harness", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Hello Haven, Inc.", "b": "Nous Research", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "None", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under Hello Haven's Terms of Service", "b": "MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-17", "b": "2026-10-11", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-07-24", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-07-24", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "253k stars", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Hermes Agent scores 67.9 (B) on agent readiness against Haven's 22.2 (F), and leads in every scored category.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Haven or Hermes Agent?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Haven. Hermes Agent is open source (MIT).", "question": "Are Haven and Hermes Agent open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": [ "No incidents deducted, where Hermes Agent loses 3 points for them" ], "goodFor": "A consumer assistant for one person who wants to phone, text or email it and have it remember them.", "slug": "haven", "watchFor": "No approval setting or list of actions that need confirmation was found on the public pages. The terms say it sends emails, SMS and calls following the user's instructions." }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 57 against 35", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 80 against 4", "Agent ergonomics, 80 against 6", "Security \u0026 auth, 75 against 13", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 30", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 84 against 35", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 63 against 51" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "Free to start without a card", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "hermes-agent", "watchFor": "The default terminal backend runs commands on the host, and the default `smart` mode lets an auxiliary model approve commands it rates low-risk" } ], "job": { "capability": "assistant.proactive", "name": "Assistant proactive" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-haven.json", "title": "AstrBot vs Haven", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-haven" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-hermes-agent.json", "title": "AstrBot vs Hermes Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-hermes-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-haven.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Haven", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-haven" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-hermes-agent.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Hermes Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-hermes-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-haven.json", "title": "GAIA vs Haven", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-haven" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-hermes-agent.json", "title": "GAIA vs Hermes Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-hermes-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-haven.json", "title": "Gemini Spark vs Haven", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-haven" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-hermes-agent.json", "title": "Gemini Spark vs Hermes Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-hermes-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-haven.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Haven", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-haven" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-hermes-agent.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Hermes Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-hermes-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-instinct.json", "title": "Haven vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-ironclaw.json", "title": "Haven vs IronClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-ironclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-leon.json", "title": "Haven vs Leon", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-leon" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-lindy.json", "title": "Haven vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-nanobot.json", "title": "Haven vs nanobot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-nanobot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-nanoclaw.json", "title": "Haven vs NanoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-nanoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-openai-dots.json", "title": "Haven vs Dots", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-openai-dots" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "Haven vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-picoclaw.json", "title": "Haven vs PicoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-picoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-poke.json", "title": "Haven vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-qwenpaw.json", "title": "Haven vs QwenPaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-qwenpaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-zeroclaw.json", "title": "Haven vs ZeroClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-zeroclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-zo-computer.json", "title": "Haven vs Zo Computer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-zo-computer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-instinct.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-ironclaw.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs IronClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-ironclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-leon.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Leon", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-leon" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-lindy.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-nanobot.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs nanobot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-nanobot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-nanoclaw.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs NanoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-nanoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-openai-dots.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Dots", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-openai-dots" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-picoclaw.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs PicoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-picoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-poke.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-qwenpaw.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs QwenPaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-qwenpaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-zeroclaw.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs ZeroClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-zeroclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-zo-computer.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Zo Computer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-zo-computer" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 22, "edge": "hermes-agent", "haven": 35, "hermes-agent": 57, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 76, "edge": "hermes-agent", "haven": 4, "hermes-agent": 80, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 74, "edge": "hermes-agent", "haven": 6, "hermes-agent": 80, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 62, "edge": "hermes-agent", "haven": 13, "hermes-agent": 75, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 30, "edge": "hermes-agent", "haven": 30, "hermes-agent": 60, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 49, "edge": "hermes-agent", "haven": 35, "hermes-agent": 84, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 12, "edge": "hermes-agent", "haven": 51, "hermes-agent": 63, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Hermes Agent scores 67.9 (B) on agent readiness against Haven's 22.2 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistant proactive.", "verdicts": { "haven": "Haven answers by phone call, text, email and app, is free in beta with no card, and publishes a status page with dated incidents. No public page read says which actions need approval, which accounts it connects or how their tokens are kept, and it names no model provider or sub-processor.", "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." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-hermes-agent", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-hermes-agent.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-hermes-agent.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-hermes-agent.min.md" }, "markdown": "Hermes Agent scores 67.9 (B) on agent readiness against Haven's 22.2 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistant proactive.\n\n- Haven: grade F, 22.2/100, rank #977 of 986. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/haven.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/haven.json\n- Hermes Agent: grade B, 67.9/100, rank #244 of 986. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hermes-agent.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hermes-agent.json\n- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md\n- All 190 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Haven (F)\n\nGood for: A consumer assistant for one person who wants to phone, text or email it and have it remember them.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where Hermes Agent loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: No approval setting or list of actions that need confirmation was found on the public pages. The terms say it sends emails, SMS and calls following the user's instructions.\n\n### Hermes Agent (B)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 57 against 35\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 80 against 4\n- Agent ergonomics, 80 against 6\n- Security \u0026 auth, 75 against 13\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 84 against 35\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 63 against 51\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Free to start without a card\n- Open source\n\nWatch 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\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Haven | Hermes Agent | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 35 | 57 | Hermes Agent +22 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 4 | 80 | Hermes Agent +76 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 6 | 80 | Hermes Agent +74 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 13 | 75 | Hermes Agent +62 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 60 | Hermes Agent +30 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 35 | 84 | Hermes Agent +49 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 51 | 63 | Hermes Agent +12 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **22.2 · F** | **67.9 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Haven | Hermes Agent |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Platform | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Hello Haven, Inc. | Nous Research |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Hello Haven's Terms of Service | MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-17 | 2026-10-11 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-07-24 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-24 | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | |\n| Popularity | none | 253k stars |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Haven.** Haven answers by phone call, text, email and app, is free in beta with no card, and publishes a status page with dated incidents. No public page read says which actions need approval, which accounts it connects or how their tokens are kept, and it names no model provider or sub-processor.\n\n**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.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Haven\n\n1. Haven has no documented API or MCP server. An outside agent can reach it only through the owner's channels (call, SMS, email, app).\n2. Do not assume an approval step before Haven sends mail, texts or calls. None is documented on the public pages.\n3. Email Haven sends to other people names Hello Haven as sender and says it was sent on the user's behalf, per the terms.\n4. Chat messages, history, profile context and uploaded files go to third-party AI model providers that the vendor does not name.\n5. Check status.hellohaven.ai before relying on phone or voice. All four published incidents affected those channels.\n\n### Hermes Agent\n\n1. Set `approvals.mode: manual` before giving it real accounts. The default `smart` lets an auxiliary model approve commands\n2. Run the gateway with `terminal.backend: docker` or the project's Docker image when it reads mail, web pages or group chats\n3. Set `memory.write_approval: true` and `skills.write_approval: true` to review what it saves about the owner\n4. Leave `approvals.cron_mode` and `approvals.unattended_mode` at `deny` for scheduled and webhook runs\n5. Set `TELEGRAM_ALLOWED_USERS` or the matching allowlist per channel. Never set `GATEWAY_ALLOW_ALL_USERS=true`\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Haven or Hermes Agent?\n\nHermes Agent scores 67.9 (B) on agent readiness against Haven's 22.2 (F), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Are Haven and Hermes Agent open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Haven. Hermes Agent is open source (MIT).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-hermes-agent.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-hermes-agent.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"haven\", \"b\": \"hermes-agent\"}`. 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