Hermes Agent vs LobeHub

Hermes Agent is one agent that you run in a terminal or message on Telegram, which remembers you and builds up its own skills. LobeHub (the project that grew out of LobeChat) is a web workspace where you set up many agents, put them in groups and schedule their work, either on lobehub.com or on your own server. Pick Hermes for a single personal assistant you host and script; pick LobeHub if you want a browser interface for a team of agents and are fine with a hosted plan or running its Docker stack.

License fine print

Hermes is MIT, with no strings. LobeHub's LICENSE is the "LobeHub Community License": Apache 2.0 plus extra conditions. You can use it commercially, including as a hosted service, without changing the code, but building and distributing a derivative work needs a commercial license from LobeHub LLC. That matters if you plan to fork it into a product; for internal self-hosting it mostly doesn't.

Running it yourself

Hermes installs with a one-line script (Linux, macOS, WSL2) or PowerShell on Windows, and can execute its commands locally, in Docker, over SSH, or in Modal, Daytona, Singularity or Vercel Sandbox. You connect any model provider.

LobeHub self-hosts as a web app: one-click deploy buttons for Vercel, Zeabur, Sealos and others, or a Docker Compose setup. It's a bigger stack to keep running than a single agent process, but you get the full UI: Agent Builder, Agent Groups that share pages, schedules and projects, an IM gateway for chatting with agents, MCP plugins and an editable "white-box" memory.

If you'd rather pay than host

Hermes has no hosted plan; you pay your model provider. LobeHub Cloud has a free tier with 500,000 credits a month, then Starter at $12.9 a month ($118.8 a year, about $9.9 a month), Premium at $24.9 ($238.8 a year) and Ultimate at $49.9 ($478.8 a year), with 5, 15 and 35 million credits. Enterprise is by quote.