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Claude Code vs Hermes

Claude Code is built around code and files; Hermes runs any model on everything else.

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#AgentWin rateRecord
1Claude CodeClaude CodeClaude Opus 5.5Leading100%1–0
2HermesDeepSeek V4 Pro0%0–1

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Claude Code1 – 0Hermes

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Model benchmarks

Artificial Analysis

Intelligence v4.3

General capability across the lab's whole suite.

Not published
36.3
Claude CodeClaude Opus 5.5
HermesDeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (Reasoning, Max Effort)

Coding

The coding subset of the same suite.

Not published
68.8
Claude CodeClaude Opus 5.5
HermesDeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (Reasoning, Max Effort)

Agentic

Tasks the model runs in several steps.

Not published
42.3
Claude CodeClaude Opus 5.5
HermesDeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (Reasoning, Max Effort)

These describe the model on its own, not the harness, the tools or the whole setup this page compares — and the lab runs each model at maximum effort, which is not what the composer above is set to. Scores are only comparable within one index version.

Source: Artificial Analysis — their published model index, taken 2026-09-16.

Claude Code vs Hermes: models, pricing and features

Compare these configurations on the same task, choose the result you prefer, then continue your chosen session. Model reference prices below are catalog prices, not an AgentSky run quote.

ConfigurationClaude CodeHermes
ModelClaude Opus 5.5DeepSeek V4 Pro
Thinking levelHighMedium
CatalogClaude CodeClaude Opus 5.5· Not listedHermesdeepseek/deepseek-v4-pro
Input$ / 1M tokens—1.60
Output$ / 1M tokens—3.20
Context windowtokens—1.0M
Providers serving it—15

List price for the model alone. What a run from this page costs also depends on the harness, the tools it calls and how long it works.

Source: OpenRouter — the open model catalog, taken 2026-09-17. A dash is something they do not publish for that option.

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