Hermes Vs OpenClaw - Which One Makes More Money?

OpenClaw versus Hermes, which agents are actually better for making money? So I think about this from a business standpoint. So OpenClaw, I've been using basically since the beginning, and it's been great. I mean, I've— I call my main agent Alfred, and there's so much we've been able to do with it. I mean, it's found costs for me that have saved me $500 grand. It's helped me from a marketing standpoint in terms of generating way more reach. It's generated a ton of pipeline for us. It's been great for recruiting people as well. And so it's doing a lot of stuff that previously was unavailable to someone like me who's non-technical. That's been good. The thing with OpenCLAW though is that the more that you add to it over time, the more it gets bogged down. So you have to make sure that you're separating things and your infrastructure is set up correctly. More on that later. OpenCLAW autonomous agent, and it's got a lot of support. The founder now works for OpenAI, and so there's a lot of dev support that's behind it, right? And then we can also even talk about NVIDIA's AI runtime as well. So that's one piece. If we look at Hermes, Hermes is relatively new on the scene, but what I will say about Hermes is that it will learn with you over time. So I see as I continue to work with it, it'll add skill.md files just to remember what it is that it's doing. And so So that's one piece. So it'll learn with you. That's cool. OpenCLAW doesn't do that, at least for right now. And then the other piece is it's just more, it's more stable. Like I don't need to worry about it not responding to me. Whereas with OpenCLAW right now, that's a little bit of a, a little bit of an issue. I'll just give you an example of my use case right now. And before I do that, maybe there's a couple of things that you want to look at that I'm going to be covering in this video. So reliability is big. Security is big. Features are big as well. Communities is big. So those are the 4 things I'm going to be looking at. When I think about the way that I use my OpenCLAW now, my teammates actually interact with it. So the agents are sitting within Slack. And they can query, they can do data pulls, they can strategize with the agents, they can even execute with the agents. So putting together cold email infrastructure, you know, doing research on leads, like deep, deep research on leads, it kind of runs the whole gamut here. And what I would say is what my team is communicating now is that they can't live without my OpenClaw. And so the agents that we have set up, okay, so literally they don't feel like they can do their work anymore, works a lot slower now, and they feel that they've become really dependent on it. And that's a good thing, right? Which means we have a sense of product market fit. Now, that being said, over time, we started to notice that, you know, sometimes they'll message Alfred, which is my OpenCLAW bot, and it won't respond. They'll message one of the other agents, it won't respond. And then we have to reset the gateway. The gateway gets overwhelmed. And so there's all sorts of issues with that, right? So you do need to think about how you should structure that in the future, because it's not, it's not so much an OpenCLAW issue as much as it is structure issue in terms of how you think about separating the agents, right? But that being said, even though I've done that, sometimes it's still a little unreliable, right? So we'll come back to that in a little bit. Now, you look at her Hermes, whenever I ask it to do something now, I ask it to do research, I ask it to put together some decks, I ask it to— literally today, this morning, I was at the gym, I said, hey, use our design.md file and make brand new landing pages. And it made some pretty sweet landing pages. Let's just start with reliability first. Obviously, both of these agents are very capable. Hermes responds to me very quickly. It responds to me almost all the time. In fact, I don't think it's ever ignored me. Okay. Now, on the other side, Alfred ignores me pretty frequently now, even though I've kind of restructured and then kind of isolated the agents. I've kind of— there's a lot of work I've audited kind the setup there in terms of why it's broken. I had OpenClaw audit itself. I had Hermes audit it, and then we basically made the changes, but it's still having issues right now. Reliability would go to Hermes, at least for right now. Security-wise, now OpenClaw, people are like, oh, you know, it's not that secure in the beginning. Yes, in the very beginning it was very insecure. Okay. And especially the more that you give it access to, the more you increase your blast radius. So if it's allowed to send emails on your behalf, you're going to run into issues there, right? Potential issues. And so what I would still say though, Hermes is new, but Still, if you give an autonomous agent access to kind of do whatever it wants, both are very risky from that standpoint. That being said, OpenCLAW has a lot more support from communities, companies such as NVIDIA. So NVIDIA has NeMoCLAW, which is their enterprise-grade version of OpenCLAW. And so from a security standpoint, you can leverage that. And also because OpenCLAW has been out for longer, they've been adding a lot more security hardening around it. So that's something that you have to consider. I would say security probably goes over to OpenCLAW right now. That being said, Hermes is growing really quickly. 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So I think community probably goes over to OpenCLAW. That being said, the Hermes community is very strong. It's growing very quickly. I just think the more community you have, the more support you're going to get for things such as security, such as features and things like that. Now, features-wise, I'm also going to say that when you look at Hermes, I can't connect it to as many things I want to connect it to right now. And Hermes itself has even said that. I had it score itself against OpenCLAW. Now, that being said, features-wise, OpenCLAW has way more because there's a bunch of things you can connect. There's a bunch of people that have built skills for it. There's a bunch of people that are kind of talking about their setup. So I think from a feature standpoint, my OpenCLAW has a lot more tied to it. It has a lot more gadgets tied to it. I just look at it as I'm Batman, I have the belt, and there's a lot that I can do with the belt. And so what I would say is that even though from a security standpoint, from a feature standpoint, from a, let's say, community standpoint, OpenClaw wins right now 3 to 1, you know, Hermes, I would say, wins on reliability. For me as a business owner, what matters the most is reliability. How you should think about setting this up, I think that Hermes can be your brain, okay? That can be the— because it moves very quickly, it responds to you all the time, it's very reliable. It can hold your OpenClaw agent or even your fleet of agents accountable. So the whole idea is you might have an OpenClaw chief of staff, and then there might be a fleet of agents under it that can hold it accountable. And I have them working inside of a Slack channel together, and they're talking to each other. And so whenever OpenClaw needs a kick, Hermes is going to come in and do it, right? So you need more of the arms, kind of the muscle. You can use OpenClaw for that. Now, that being said, I am actually spinning up a Hermes fleet on its own just to see how well it does, how reliable it is. Versus the OpenClaw one, because I want everyone on the team to have their own agents, right? Right now for clients, right now when they're using NemoClaw, you know, they're able to kind of reliably communicate with these agents. And that's been good for us. And it's secure, it's secure, it's reliable, right? So you just, you can think about how you want to do this. But for me personally, right now, for the things I want to do, I just need speed. I want it to happen quickly. I want it to be able to analyze things when I ask it to. And I just think that Hermes right now is the winner when it comes to reliability. If you're going to sell anything or if you're going to use anything, you need it to be reliable. I think To me, that's the most important thing. Obviously security matters as well, but I haven't run into any major issues there. That's how we're doing it right now. I'm curious to know in the comments what you think. Are you using Hermes right now? Are you using OpenCLAW at all? And then if you really enjoyed this video, I would encourage you to check out this next one. It's somewhere over here where we are talking about how you can actually generate way more revenue using OpenCLAW's new revenue agents. So you can check out, even though I said Hermes wins on this one, check it out.