Duel-Agents vs hermesclaw
The two are close in size: 772 stars for Duel-Agents, 726 for hermesclaw. Over the days we have tracked them Duel-Agents moved +10.6% and hermesclaw +22.2%, so hermesclaw is growing faster right now.
hermesclaw leads on privacy and model freedom and setup ease. Duel-Agents does not take any axis by a clear margin.
Stars and commit dates come from our own daily tracking. The six axes are read off each project's documentation by our review pipeline, so they describe what a project says about itself, not what we measured in its code.
Where they stand today
An IDE-native routing layer that runs prompts across multiple models and picks the cheapest answer that still wins.
- Stars
- 772
- Tracked growth
- +10.6%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 67d ago
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- MIT
- Cost to run
- Requires a Duel API key (dashboard subscription)
Lets you run Hermes Agent, OpenClaw, and OpenCode simultaneously on a single WeChat account by acting as the sole iLink poller and proxying requests to local gateway endpoints.
- Stars
- 726
- Tracked growth
- +22.2%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 11d ago
- Language
- Python
- License
- MIT
- Cost to run
- Free, self-hosted (no paid cloud required)
Six axes, head to head
Each axis runs 0 to 5. The label under a score is what that project's own docs claim, not a category average.
| Axis | Duel-Agents | hermesclaw |
|---|---|---|
Context depth How much of your codebase it sees before it answers: the open diff, the diff plus related files, or the whole repository. | ●●●●● Diff/file only | ●●●●● Diff only |
Noise control How it keeps output volume down — severity thresholds, deduplication, incremental runs over new commits only. | ●●●●● No noise controls | ●●●●● Routing + tags |
Customization How far it bends to your team: custom rules, prompts, style guides, per-path config. | ●●●●● Env/config options | ●●●●● Config file options |
Privacy Whether your code stays on your own infrastructure: fully local, self-hostable, or cloud API only. | ●●●●● Third-party cloud | ●●●●● Self-hostable |
Model freedom Whether you can point it at any provider, or it is wired to one. | ●●●●● Single provider | ●●●●● Gateway-managed models |
Setup ease What it takes to get a first useful run out of it. | ●●●●● API key + install | ●●●●● One-command install |
Which one to pick
Pick Duel-Agents if…
Cost-optimized — pick Duel Agents when you want an IDE-integrated proxy that routes and compares model answers to choose the cheapest winning response.
Pick hermesclaw if…
Easy setup — one-command installer configures local proxies, patches gateways, and installs a background service so multiple WeChat agents can run on the same account.
- Privacy: Self-hostable (4/5 against 1/5)
- Model freedom: Gateway-managed models (3/5 against 1/5)
- Setup ease: One-command install (5/5 against 3/5)
What people want from each one
2aronS/Duel-Agents
AaronWong1999/hermesclaw
Questions people ask
Is Duel-Agents better than hermesclaw?
hermesclaw leads on privacy and model freedom and setup ease. Duel-Agents does not take any axis by a clear margin. Duel-Agents is worth picking when cost-optimized — pick Duel Agents when you want an IDE-integrated proxy that routes and compares model answers to choose the cheapest winning response.
Which of Duel-Agents and hermesclaw keeps my code private?
Duel-Agents: Third-party cloud (1/5). hermesclaw: Self-hostable (4/5).
What does each one cost to run?
Duel-Agents: Requires a Duel API key (dashboard subscription). hermesclaw: Free, self-hosted (no paid cloud required).
Full profiles: 2aronS/Duel-Agents and AaronWong1999/hermesclaw. Everything else in Gateways & routing.