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OpenClaw vs Hermes Agent
OpenClaw is a Self-Hosted Personal Agent from OpenClaw Foundation (Open source / community); Hermes Agent is a Self-Hosted Personal Agent from Nous Research (Open source / community). No independent evaluator has scored both products, so their task performance cannot be compared directly; the comparison below covers documented capabilities. PAEval holds 16 capability records for OpenClaw and 15 for Hermes Agent (as of 9 Oct 2026).
Scores stay on each evaluator's own scale and are never combined. PAEval does not pick a winner.
| OpenClaw | Hermes Agent | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | OpenClaw Foundation | Nous Research |
| HQ region | Open source / community | Open source / community |
| Type | Self-Hosted Personal Agent | Self-Hosted Personal Agent |
| Pricing (as documented) | Not compiled | Not compiled |
| Assistant Benchmark1–10 mean of scored dimensions | Not scored | Not scored |
| micro1 PersonalAgentBench% of 10 workflows with trusted completion | Not scored | Not scored |
| SuperCLUE-XClaw0–100 weighted total of 5 dimensions | Not scored | Not scored |
| Autonomy & background work | Documented | Documented |
| Execution environments | Documented | Documented |
| Calls, messages & identity | Documented | Documented |
| Connectors & tools | No record | No record |
| Memory & personalization | Documented | Documented |
| Channels & interfaces | No record | No record |
| Research & deliverables | No record | No record |
| Transactions & bookings | Unknown | Unknown |
| Collaboration & parallelism | No record | No record |
| Reliability & recovery | No record | No record |
| Permissions, security & data | Documented | Documented |
| Capability records | 16 (1 independent) | 15 (0 independent) |
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