Hermes Web UI vs Workspace: Who Wins?

Hermes Web UI versus Hermes Workspace, who wins? Hermes Web UI and Hermes Workspace are both free. They're both open source, but they are not the same thing. And the one you pick changes what your AI agent can actually do for you.

One of them lets you run an entire team of AI agents all at the same time, working on different jobs, all coordinated automatically. The other one is simpler, cleaner and connects almost perfectly every single time. So in this video, I want to show you them both side by side, exactly what you get, what the real differences are and which one you should be using, depending on what you want Hermes agent to do. By the end of this, you'll know exactly which setup to run.

And your Hermes agent is going to be way more useful and powerful. Stick with me. Let's get into it today. We're going to be comparing Hermes Workspace versus Hermes Web UI to see which one is the best option.

Right. So these are two different ways of running a nice user interface for Hermes agent. Right. And we can compare them side by side here.

Now, if we have a look, Hermes Workspace and Hermes Web UI are both free open source projects. Right. So you can switch between these and you can test them out both. I like to use different extensions with Hermes agent.

I like to test new things, see what's the most useful. And we'll be comparing these side by side to see which one is the best today to use with Hermes agent. Now, some people say, why don't you just use Hermes inside terminal like this? Right.

If we actually go to Hermes inside terminal, it's it's way sometimes it's way too simple of all the cool stuff you can do with Hermes agent. So, for example, if you have a look at Hermes Workspace, we open this up. We can actually set up mobile access directly from Hermes Workspace, which is pretty cool. But then also we have something called Hermes World, which is like this cool little AI agent game that we can play and we can just roam around this world and start doing cool stuff.

Right. And so there's a big benefit to using these workspaces instead of using like the default terminal user interface. And I think at some point, Hermes agent themselves will probably release something that's very similar here where you can actually just control it with a nice dashboard. OpenQuest, our own gateway.

So what are the differences? Let me pull these up side by side. So this is what it looks like when you're using like the default version inside both. Right.

So you've got a chat option here for both of them, as you can see. Now, one thing you'll notice straight away is if we message Hermes web UI here and we just say, are you working? Check, test this out, see if it's working here. You can see that sometimes they're both a little bit buggy in terms of connecting directly to Hermes.

Right. So let's just make sure these are working here. See, like it came up with an error message a second ago, but now it's actually working. So that's good.

Right. We said, are you working? And it says, yeah, I'm here. I'm working.

What do you need? Now you can see here, it says that it needs to be authenticated, but actually it's replying inside the chat. So it is a little bit buggy. Sometimes Hermes workspace, especially I found just for connecting directly to your Hermes agent.

As you can see right here, it seems to be almost duplicated in terms of linking them together, which is not great. Whereas if we have a look at Hermes workspace, it does tend to work. Sorry, Hermes web UI. It tends to work straight off the bat.

Now, if you need to fix this at any point, what you can do here is you can just paste in the error and just get them to sync like this. So you see all the news. Any code auto use will be overcharged. I haven't seen that actually.

Thanks. Just change the step fun. Happy to help. Now you can see that's fixed here.

Now there are some pretty cool things inside both of them that you can use. So let me show you side by side how that works. So if we pull up Hermes workspace, what you see here is a chat. So you can chat with your agent here.

And then you've also got something called Swarms. I think this is probably the best feature inside Hermes workspace. So what this means, you can basically have 17 different profiles of Hermes working at the same time. And so that's the only way I've seen to really run a full agent team, apart from Ruffalo with Claude for creating like a full agent swarm.

Right. Like, for example, they built out a 50 page website for me. If we have a look at, for example, something like Hermes web UI, you can see here there's no swarms option, right? We have the Hermes dashboard.

We can see all the profiles that we've got, but you can only use one profile at a time and you switch between them like that. So you can choose which one you want to use and which one you want to start using on. But you can't use them all at the same time. So if you want like a big team of agents, Hermes workspace is pretty good.

But just bear in mind, like it is a little bit buggy. Like even looking at this is the older version of Hermes workspace, but I've just pulled in the latest version. Right. So it's like it's a bit weird sometimes with the configuration and getting them to work.

Usually if I'm having any problems, I will get Hermes or Claude to just go directly and go and fix that. The other thing that's pretty cool here inside both of them is you have this spaces section, right? So you can manage all of your files. So for example, if you go into Hermes workspace, it's actually easier to manage all of your files because you'll see them all inside this section.

You can edit them, change them, move them however you want. And that sort of thing. You also get a terminal option here. So if you do prefer to use like the Hermes web UI, you can use a terminal.

Whereas I think Hermes web UI itself versus workspace is a bit less customizable, right? It doesn't go in the same sort of like granular depth that you normally get inside Hermes workspace. Now there's other customizations that you get inside Hermes workspace. So you can see them here.

Like for example, you've got the Kanban board. So you can actually add like new tasks, assign them to an agent over here, and then you can get them working for a Kanban board, which is pretty cool. You can set up jobs. You've got a conductor, so it's like an office as you can see, and then you can actually launch a new mission for all your agents to work towards inside Hermes workspace, right?

Whereas you don't really get that inside something like Hermes web UI. So I think if you want to manage like your agents one by one and you want something that's very simple, that connects pretty much perfectly every single time and doesn't require anything too complex, then I would go with Hermes web UI, right? Whereas, but if you want something like with all the bells and whistles, all the crazy stuff, all the really interesting things you can do with agents, then you can go with something like Hermes workspace, right? So you've got, for example, the operations, you've got the swarms, you have the Kanban board, the conductor, et cetera, right?

There's a lot more customization that you can do with Hermes workspace. So they are the main differences between them. Just be aware that it can be quite buggy with Hermes workspace as you've seen today. Also, you don't get the game inside Hermes web UI, whereas you do get Hermes world inside Hermes workspace.

So those are the main differences here. Now if you want a full guide to using both, for example, Hermes workspace, we have a full setup guide with a 30 day roadmap, 100 prompts and a step-by-step plan on how to use and implement this stuff. As you can see with Hermes, a workspace right here. And then if you want to learn how to use a web UI, we have that as well inside the AirProfit boardroom.

So pretty much everything you need to know about Hermes agent, how to use it, all our step-by-step guides, they're updated daily with new cool stuff. As you can see inside the AirProfit boardroom, link in the comments description or go to the AirProfit boardroom. This is my community that helps you learn, grow and scale with AI automation inside the classroom. You get all my new trainings inside the calendar.

You can drop a week coaching calls, you can connect with me personally, and it's got everything you need to learn about AI automation, AI agents in general. Let's see what questions we've got here. So Abdul says, please application name. Yeah.

So Hermes workspace and Hermes web UI, both available on GitHub. Trad says, hopefully tokens, token costs go down. So you can actually use Hermes for free, right? If you want to use it for free, then you run Hermes with noose portal, and you make sure that you have step fund 3.5 flash set up right there.

Right. And that's how you can use Hermes agent for free. Second says, please talk about how people with less than 32 gigabytes of RAM and no GPU and want 90% local. If you want local, you need a good setup, right?

So if you've got no RAM, you've not got a good setup. You wouldn't run a local setup, right? You can just use API instead. For example, like step 3.5 flash.

And then he second says, I'm using Docker and telegram to talk my Hermes agent. I want it lean and max efficiency. I don't actually use window setups, right? So I know you said there, can you talk about window setups?

I don't use windows at all. Simply just, I don't find it good for productivity and I prefer using a max studio or Mac mini if I'm going to run local models at all. So those are the differences.