# Hermes Agent vs Town (slim)

> Hermes Agent scores 67.9 (B) to Town's 48.7 (D) for proactive personal assistants. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Hermes Agent scores 67.9 (B) on agent readiness against Town's 48.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do proactive personal assistants.

- Hermes Agent: B 67.9, rank #244 of 1010 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hermes-agent.min.md
- Town: D 48.7, rank #834 of 1010 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.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 Reliability, 57 against 35; Schema & documentation, 80 against 33; Agent ergonomics, 80 against 49; Payments & pricing, 60 against 30; Maintenance & community, 84 against 60. Also No key needed to call it; Open source.
- Town, good for An owner who wants a mail and calendar assistant whose routines other systems can trigger. Also No incidents deducted, where Hermes Agent loses 3 points for them.

| Category | Hermes Agent | Town |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 57 | 35 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 33 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 80 | 49 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 75 | 79 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 84 | 60 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 63 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Hermes Agent | Town |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Agent harness | Platform |
| Vendor | Nous Research | Town.com, Inc. |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Licence | MIT | Closed service under Town's Terms of Service (Town.com, Inc., updated 21 July 2026). |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-10 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked |  |
| Popularity | 253k stars | none |