Grok Bot vs Hermes Bot Mode is actually a much easier decision than people are making it.
Neither one needs to “kill” the other.
They’re built for different people.
Grok Bot makes a ton of sense if you want:
- a managed experience
- cloud-hosted agents
- minimal setup
- something you can sign into and start using without becoming the sysadmin of your AI team
Hermes makes a ton of sense if you want:
- control over where your agents run
- your choice of models and providers
- different models for different bots
- custom skills, memory, tools and personalities
- recurring routines
- bots that can message and hand work to each other
- an agent system you can keep extending as far as you’re willing to take it
That’s really the split.
Grok Bot is closer to:
“I want an AI team. Make this easy.”
Hermes is closer to:
“I want to BUILD my AI team.”
And there are a LOT of people who should choose the first one.
There are also absolute sickos like me who look at the second one and immediately start building an entire fleet. 😂
Different tools.
Different users.
Very similar destination.