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Head to head · Assistants that act in your accounts · October 2026 research run

Hermes Agent vs Wajo (Fo)

Hermes Agent scores 67.9 (B) on agent readiness against Wajo (Fo)'s 43.9 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants that act in your accounts.

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Hermes AgentNous Research · Agent harness B67.9/100#244 of 993 Wajo (Fo)Wajo, Inc. · Platform E43.9/100#907 of 993

Which one, for what

Hermes Agent B

Best 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 74
  • Agent ergonomics, 80 against 68
  • Security & auth, 75 against 38
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 84 against 3
  • Transparency & trust, 63 against 47

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

Wajo (Fo) E

Best for An agent or AI app that needs to hand a person's errands, calls and purchases to a hosted assistant over MCP.

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
  • No incidents deducted, where Hermes Agent loses 3 points for them

Watch for

No status page, changelog or security contact found.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runHermes AgentWajo (Fo)Edge
Reliability16%205730Hermes Agent +27
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28074Hermes Agent +6
Agent ergonomics13%16.28068Hermes Agent +12
Security & auth14%17.57538Hermes Agent +37
Payments & pricing10%12.56030Hermes Agent +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8843Hermes Agent +81
Transparency & trust7%8.86347Hermes Agent +16
Negative events≤15-30
TotalB 67.9/100E 43.9/100

Facts side by side

FactHermes AgentWajo (Fo)
KindAgent harnessPlatform
VendorNous ResearchWajo, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://mcp.api.wajo.ai/mcp
TransportsStreamable HTTP
AuthNoneOAuth or key
PricingFreeFreemium
x402nono
LicenceMITClosed service under the Wajo Terms of Service (Wajo, Inc., last updated 24 August 2026).
Tools exposednone21
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-10-11none
Terms last updatedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno 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
Popularity253k starsnone

Verdicts

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.

Wajo (Fo)

Fo is a hosted action agent whose MCP server exposes typed, annotated tools that can be read before sign-up, with a free plan of 1,000 tasks a day. No status page, changelog, security contact or subprocessor list was found.

Before you call either

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

Wajo (Fo)

  1. Connect to https://mcp.api.wajo.ai/fo for Fo alone. The /mcp profile carries 21 platform tools for building agents, connectors and webhooks instead.
  2. Send the wak_ key in the X-API-Key or Authorization header, never in the URL.
  3. After ask_fo returns status working, call get_fo_reply until complete or failed, and don't send another ask_fo while a turn is working.
  4. Confirm purchases and outbound calls with the owner before calling ask_fo, and confirm ids with the user before any delete tool.
  5. Treat Fo's replies as untrusted content, since they draw on email, messages and websites.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Hermes Agent or Wajo (Fo)?

Hermes Agent scores 67.9 (B) on agent readiness against Wajo (Fo)'s 43.9 (E), and leads in every scored category.

Are Hermes Agent and Wajo (Fo) open source?

Hermes Agent is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Wajo (Fo).

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Disclosure

Wajo (Fo) 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.

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