KyoubeAI vs Hermes Agent: Hermes for a whole company

Feature by feature

Features compared
Capability	KyoubeAI	Hermes Agent
Multiplayer environment
One sign-in for the whole company	Yes	PartialWith Hermes Business
People and agents in one shared workspace	Yes	PartialIn shared chat threads
Tasks handed between people and agents	Yes	PartialAgents own tasks, people review
Governance
Companies kept apart at the database level	Yes	PartialPer-board databases, one operator
An audit trail for every change	Yes	PartialLocal session and task logs
Human approval before risky actions	YesBy admin policy	YesRisky shell commands
Data and apps
A database the agents design and populate	Yes	No
Apps the agents build and publish	Yes	PartialStatic sites via a skill
Apps respect each viewer's permissions	Yes	No
Hosting, models and licence
Runs on your own server	Yes	Yes
Bring your own model providers	Yes	Yes
Choose the agent runtime	Yes	PartialCodex option, in beta
Source code you can read	YesBSL 1.1	Yes
Trade-offs
Nothing to host or maintain	PartialHosted plan in early access	YesWith Hermes Cloud
On a phone as well as in a browser	No	YesThrough chat apps

In brief
Criterion	KyoubeAI	Hermes Agent
What it is	A self-hosted AI operating system where a company's people and AI agents work together.	Nous Research's open-source agent, with lasting memory, skills it writes itself and a gateway to 20+ chat apps. It is one of KyoubeAI's three pre-installed harnesses.
Built for	Organisations that want agents working under their own roles and approvals, with someone who can run Docker.	One person who wants an agent that learns their work, or a team sharing one bot in chat. On Hermes Business, each member gets a hosted agent.
Where it runs	Your own server, from one Docker Compose file. It needs 4 GB of RAM on amd64 or arm64.	Your machine or server on macOS, Windows, Linux or Docker, running commands locally, over SSH or in sandboxes such as Modal. Nous also hosts it as Hermes Cloud.
Price	Free for up to five users on your own server, then US$39 per user a month self-hosted or US$99 hosted, with custom terms for enterprises. You pay your model providers for usage.	Free under the MIT licence, and you pay your model provider. Nous Portal plans and Hermes Cloud hosting are optional, priced on the Hermes Agent site and in Nous Portal.

What it is
KyoubeAI
A self-hosted AI operating system where a company's people and AI agents work together.
Hermes Agent
Nous Research's open-source agent, with lasting memory, skills it writes itself and a gateway to 20+ chat apps. It is one of KyoubeAI's three pre-installed harnesses.
Built for
KyoubeAI
Organisations that want agents working under their own roles and approvals, with someone who can run Docker.
Hermes Agent
One person who wants an agent that learns their work, or a team sharing one bot in chat. On Hermes Business, each member gets a hosted agent.
Where it runs
KyoubeAI
Your own server, from one Docker Compose file. It needs 4 GB of RAM on amd64 or arm64.
Hermes Agent
Your machine or server on macOS, Windows, Linux or Docker, running commands locally, over SSH or in sandboxes such as Modal. Nous also hosts it as Hermes Cloud.
Price
KyoubeAI
Free for up to five users on your own server, then US$39 per user a month self-hosted or US$99 hosted, with custom terms for enterprises. You pay your model providers for usage.
Hermes Agent
Free under the MIT licence, and you pay your model provider. Nous Portal plans and Hermes Cloud hosting are optional, priced on the Hermes Agent site and in Nous Portal.

you want one agent that remembers your work, writes its own skills and answers you on Telegram, Slack, WhatsApp or Signal
you want it on your laptop or a small VPS, or hosted for you by Nous on Hermes Cloud
you want to choose from dozens of model providers, including a local model through Ollama or vLLM

you like Hermes Agent and want it working for the whole company, next to Claude Code and pi
everyone needs one sign-in, with roles, an audit trail and companies kept apart in the database
tasks should pass between people and agents in both directions, on one board the whole team sees
agents should keep company records in a Postgres database and build apps that check each viewer's permissions

Hermes Agent with a company around it
KyoubeAI ships Hermes Agent pre-installed beside Claude Code and pi, and runs it under the company's roles, data access levels and audit log. Run on its own, Hermes Agent decides who may message it with chat allowlists and pairing codes.
Tasks that pass both ways
In KyoubeAI any task can be owned by a person or by an AI employee, and handed between them on one board. On Hermes Agent's Kanban board tasks go to agent profiles, and people comment, unblock and review.
Company records in a database
Agents design and fill a Postgres database the company owns, and build apps that check each viewer's permissions on every call. Hermes Agent keeps its memory in Markdown files, and its publishing skill puts static sites on public hosting such as GitHub Pages.