Xirp vs Hermes Agent

Compare Xirp and Hermes Agent - features, pricing, and which is better for your workflow.

What is Xirp?

Spotify's vendor-neutral agentic development environment — run and manage agent sessions across Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Codex from one place.

Price: Free

One desktop app for agent sessions across Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Codex
Institutional memory: agents get context from your services, docs, and architectural decisions
Runs sessions locally or remotely
Workspace plugin for Portal that centralises work items, sessions, and docs for the team
Living documentation generated and maintained from coding sessions
Vendor-neutral by design — swap models without rebuilding your setup

Open-source AI agent from Nous Research that lives in your terminal and desktop — persistent memory, scheduling, subagents, and sandboxed execution.

Price: Freemium

Reachable from Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, email, and the CLI
Persistent memory that carries past solutions into new sessions
Natural-language scheduling for recurring and automated tasks
Delegates work to subagents and browses the web with vision and image generation
Sandboxed execution across local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, and Modal backends
MIT licensed, with native apps for macOS 12+, Windows 10/11, and Linux