Hermes grows with you. Laze lets your team grow with it.
A self-improving agent is great for one person; Laze gives the whole team agents, keys and approvals in one place.
Laze vs Hermes
| Question | Hermes | Laze |
|---|---|---|
| How agents run | On a server you run | Always on, own machine, with the team |
| Which agents | Hermes, on any model | Any agent, any vendor |
| Who it serves | One person | The whole team |
| Works 24/7 | Yes, when hosted | Yes, close your laptop |
| Passwords and keys | Kept on the host | Locked away, never in chat |
| Approvals | Smart, manual or off | You control what’s intelligently trusted and what gets your approval for how long |
| Price | Free, plus hosting and models | From $8 per person, compute included |
Where Hermes is great
- Made for personal use
- Learns new skills itself
- Free and open source
Where Laze is different
- Made for team use
- Learns the whole team
- Powerful agents, fully under control
Questions people ask
Can my team use my Hermes agent?
Hermes is a great personal agent: it learns its user and writes new skills as it goes. Its access is built around one owner, who approves who may talk to it.
Laze is built for the whole team. Several people work with the same agent in a channel, and the agent knows who asked, so it uses the right person's accounts.
Hermes learns me. Does Laze learn too?
Laze learns your team rather than one person. AGENTS.md holds the rules every agent follows, SOUL.md says who each agent is, and MEMORY.md keeps what to remember about each conversation.
Knowledge the whole company shares goes in a wiki that people and agents both edit. Every change is kept as a version, so you can see who changed what.
Hermes is free. What does Laze cost?
Hermes is free, open source software. You pay for the model and for where it runs, either your own server or Nous Portal plans at 20, 100 or 200 USD a month.
Laze is free for up to two people. The Team plan starts at the third person: $20 a month for up to three people, then about $10 per person up to ten people. Each person gets their own computer in Laze for their agents, so there is no server to look after.
How does Laze keep our keys safe?
Hermes strips sensitive variables from the commands it runs and hides them in errors. Its own docs say this does not sandbox a hostile or compromised agent.
In Laze, keys live in a vault. The agent holds only a placeholder and the real key is added on the way out, so the value never enters the agent's computer.
Each connection is Auto, Checked, Ask or Human only. The right person approves from the thread or from their phone.
Who is in charge in a Laze workspace?
Every workspace has Owner, Admin, Member and Guest roles. Admins write the workspace rules in AGENTS.md, and every agent has an owner who decides who it is shared with.
Each use of a key and each approval lands in the audit log. Agents stay powerful, and the team stays in control.