# Hermes Agent vs QwenPaw (slim)

> Hermes Agent scores 67.9 (B) to QwenPaw's 62.2 (B) for assistant proactive. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Hermes Agent scores 67.9 (B) on agent readiness against QwenPaw's 62.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. QwenPaw leads on reliability. Both do assistant proactive.

- Hermes Agent: B 67.9, rank #244 of 986 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hermes-agent.min.md
- QwenPaw: B 62.2, rank #454 of 986 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwenpaw.min.md
- 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 Schema & documentation, 80 against 68; Agent ergonomics, 80 against 67; Security & auth, 75 against 60; Maintenance & community, 84 against 73; Transparency & trust, 63 against 56. Also Free to start without a card.
- QwenPaw, good for One person who wants an assistant on Chinese and Western chat apps with scheduled digests, a consumer mailbox and file-based memory, on their own machine and with a model of their choice. Ahead on Reliability, 70 against 57. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Hermes Agent | QwenPaw |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 57 | 70 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 68 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 80 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 75 | 60 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 84 | 73 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 63 | 56 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Hermes Agent | QwenPaw |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Nous Research | AgentScope |
| Transports |  | HTTP, stdio |
| Licence | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-11 | 2026-09-11 |
| Popularity | 253k stars | 36k stars |