# Hermes Agent vs Wajo (Fo)

> Hermes Agent scores 67.9 (B) to Wajo's 43.9 (E) for assistants that act in your accounts. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-wajo
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-wajo.md (~2,850 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-wajo.min.md (~630 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-wajo.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json)
- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- Updated: 2026-10-12

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.

- Hermes Agent: grade B, 67.9/100, rank #244 of 993. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hermes-agent.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hermes-agent.json
- Wajo (Fo): grade E, 43.9/100, rank #907 of 993. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wajo.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/wajo.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 314 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Hermes Agent (B)

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 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)

Good 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

| Category | Weight | Hermes Agent | Wajo (Fo) | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 57 | 30 | Hermes Agent +27 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 74 | Hermes Agent +6 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 68 | Hermes Agent +12 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 75 | 38 | Hermes Agent +37 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 30 | Hermes Agent +30 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 84 | 3 | Hermes Agent +81 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 63 | 47 | Hermes Agent +16 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **67.9 · B** | **43.9 · E** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Hermes Agent | Wajo (Fo) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Agent harness | Platform |
| Vendor | Nous Research | Wajo, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.api.wajo.ai/mcp` |
| Transports |  | Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT | Closed service under the Wajo Terms of Service (Wajo, Inc., last updated 24 August 2026). |
| Tools exposed | none | 21 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-11 | none |
| Terms last updated | no document linked |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no 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 |  |  |
| Popularity | 253k stars | none |

## 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).


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-wajo.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-wajo.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "hermes-agent", "b": "wajo"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare hermes-agent wajo`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hermes-agent.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/wajo.json

## Other comparisons with Hermes Agent or Wajo (Fo)

- [AstrBot vs Hermes Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-hermes-agent.md)
- [CowAgent vs Hermes Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-hermes-agent.md)
- [GAIA vs Hermes Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-hermes-agent.md)
- [Gemini Spark vs Hermes Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-hermes-agent.md)
- [Grok Bot vs Hermes Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-hermes-agent.md)
- [Haven vs Hermes Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-hermes-agent.md)
- [Hermes Agent vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-instinct.md)
- [Hermes Agent vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-ironclaw.md)
- [Hermes Agent vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-leon.md)
- [Hermes Agent vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-lindy.md)
- [Hermes Agent vs nanobot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-nanobot.md)
- [Hermes Agent vs NanoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-nanoclaw.md)
- [Hermes Agent vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-openai-dots.md)
- [Hermes Agent vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-openclaw.md)
- [Hermes Agent vs PicoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-picoclaw.md)
- [Hermes Agent vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-poke.md)
- [Hermes Agent vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-qwenpaw.md)
- [Hermes Agent vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-zeroclaw.md)
- [Hermes Agent vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-zo-computer.md)
- [CowAgent vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-wajo.md)
- [GAIA vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-wajo.md)
- [Gemini Spark vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-wajo.md)
- [Grok Bot vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-wajo.md)
- [Haven vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-wajo.md)
- [Hermes Agent vs Natura tinyNature](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-natura.md)
- [Hermes Agent vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-pally.md)
- [Hermes Agent vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-tomo.md)
- [Instinct vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-wajo.md)
- [IronClaw vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-wajo.md)
- [Leon vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-wajo.md)
- [Lindy vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-wajo.md)
- [nanobot vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-wajo.md)
- [NanoClaw vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-wajo.md)
- [Natura tinyNature vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-wajo.md)
- [Dots vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-wajo.md)
- [OpenClaw vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-wajo.md)
- [Pally vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-wajo.md)
- [Poke vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-wajo.md)
- [QwenPaw vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-wajo.md)
- [Tomo vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tomo-vs-wajo.md)
- [Wajo (Fo) vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/wajo-vs-zeroclaw.md)
- [Wajo (Fo) vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/wajo-vs-zo-computer.md)
- [Hermes Agent vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-talorys.md)
- [PicoClaw vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/picoclaw-vs-wajo.md)
- [Talorys vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/talorys-vs-wajo.md)

## 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.