hermes-ai Alternatives

Safer and better-maintained options, ranked by Nerq Trust Score. Updated 2026-09-12.

hermes-ai has a Nerq Trust Score of 57 (D). Hermes is a lightweight abstraction layer for building production-ready AI agents.

#	Name	Trust	Grade	Stars	Key Difference
1	zephyr-7b-sft-full-SPIN-iter3	56	D	25	Lower trust (56 vs 57); Much larger community
2	Fireball-Meta-Llama-3.2-8B-Instruct-agent-003-128k-code-DPO-i1-GGUF	56	D	1	Lower trust (56 vs 57); Much larger community
3	abdulmannan-01_-_qwen-2.5-3b-finetuned-for-json-function-calling-new-gguf	55	D	-	Lower trust (55 vs 57)
4	Fireball-Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Agent-0.003-128K-code-ds-auto-GGUF	55	D	2	Lower trust (55 vs 57); Much larger community
5	Fireball-Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Agent-0.003-128K-code-ds-auto-i1-GGUF	55	D	1	Lower trust (55 vs 57); Much larger community
6	RL-MemoryAgent-7B-GGUF	55	D	1	Lower trust (55 vs 57); Much larger community
7	zephyr-7b-sft-full-SPIN-iter0	55	D	7	Lower trust (55 vs 57); Much larger community
8	Cydonia-24B-v4.3-heretic-mlx-8Bit	55	D	1	Lower trust (55 vs 57); Much larger community
9	Pantheon-RP-1.8-24b-Small-3.1-i1-GGUF	55	D	-	Lower trust (55 vs 57)
10	CodeActAgent-Mistral-7b-v0.1.q8_0.gguf	55	D	3	Lower trust (55 vs 57); Much larger community
11	qwen3-4b-agent-trajectory-lora-lr2e-6-dbv4-alfv5-da14-s-1	54	D	-	Lower trust (54 vs 57)
12	InjecAgent-llama-7b-optim-2	54	D	-	Lower trust (54 vs 57)
13	deepswe-swebv-eval-n16-verifier-qwen3-lora64-agent-priority-v1	54	D	-	Lower trust (54 vs 57)
14	qwen2.5-3b-rl-cut-agent-ppo-pure-step40-v0-critic	54	D	-	Lower trust (54 vs 57)
15	zephyr-7b-sft-full-SPIN-iter1	54	D	2	Lower trust (54 vs 57); Much larger community

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