All comparisonsChecked November 13, 2026
Brigade vs Hermes Agent
Hermes Agent is a strong agent that you install, configure and run yourself, and its profiles let you run several separate agents, each with its own memory. Brigade is a team that works together: each teammate has one job and its own Apps, they share the workspace’s memory, every decision that needs you lands in one list, and your colleagues work in the same threads. The AI bill differs too: Hermes’s own docs say a Claude Max login draws only on purchased extra usage, and Claude Pro can’t be used at all. Brigade starts the official Claude Code and Codex, signed in with your own accounts, so your plan’s included usage does the work.
Side by side
| Feature | Brigade | Hermes Agent |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | An open-source app that gives your company a team of AI teammates, each one the official Claude Code or Codex with a job, its own computer, the Apps you give it and a shared memory. | An open-source personal agent that learns skills from experience, which you install and run. |
| Claude plan | Works: Brigade runs the official Claude Code on your login. | Max only through purchased extra usage, never the plan’s included usage; Pro can’t be used, so an API key instead. |
| AI models | Claude through Claude Code and GPT through Codex, side by side; a model per teammate. | Any model: Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, local models and more. |
| How you stay in control | For each teammate, you choose whether its writes to Apps (an email through Gmail, a change in Stripe, a merge on GitHub) go on their own or wait for your yes, and each mailbox can be set to approve every email. Every request lands in one Needs you list, also on your phone. Commands and files on its own computer don’t ask. | Approval for risky shell commands (by default a second model rates the risk), asked in the chat or terminal. |
| Code | Each teammate is Claude Code or Codex: it writes, tests and ships code, with pull requests and previews. | Terminal and file tools, and skills that hand coding to Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode. |
| Where you talk to it | Brigade’s own app (web, or installed on your phone with push notifications), and with Cloud an email address per teammate. | Its terminal, a desktop app, and chat apps such as Telegram, Slack and WhatsApp. |
| Your team | Invite your team: threads, lists and files are shared. | Separate agents through profiles, each with its own memory; Hermes Business (price on request) shares a hosted deployment across a team. |
| Open source | Yes, MIT. You can read every line and host it yourself. | Yes, MIT. |
Which one is for you
Pick Brigade if
- You want teammates with clear jobs (support, marketing, sales, code) that share one memory, one list of decisions and their threads with your colleagues.
- You want the Claude Pro or Max plan you already pay for to do the work, without extra usage.
- You want an email or a Stripe change to wait for your yes, from one list on your phone.
- Your team needs to see and share the work.
Pick Hermes Agent if
- You want one personal agent inside Telegram, Slack or WhatsApp.
- You want to run any model, including local ones.
- You enjoy installing and tuning your own setup.
What Hermes Agent is
Hermes Agent is Nous Research’s open-source (MIT) agent, “the agent that grows with you”: it writes skills from experience, keeps a memory of you across sessions, runs scheduled jobs, and talks to you from Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal or email while it works on your machine, a server or a cloud sandbox. Profiles run several separate agents side by side, each with its own memory, skills and chat bot. It works with any model, from Nous Portal and OpenRouter to local ones, and Nous sells hosted plans from $20 a month.
Meet your AI teammates
Start free on your own computer. Brigade runs on the Claude or ChatGPT plan you already pay for.
Sources, checked on November 13, 2026
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