Project comparison
Compare adoption, momentum, maintenance health, and project basics before choosing which tool to evaluate deeper.
An AI Gateway, registry, and proxy that sits in front of any MCP, A2A, or REST/gRPC APIs, exposing a unified endpoint with centralized discovery, guardrails and management. Optimizes Agent & Tool calling, and supports plugins.
The agent that grows with you
Hermes Agent has the larger GitHub footprint with 144.7K stars.
Mcp Context Forge is currently growing faster at 0 stars this week.
Hermes Agent has the stronger health score at 80/100.
| Signal | Mcp Context Forge | Hermes Agent |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 3.7K | 144.7K |
| Weekly growth | 0 | 0 |
| Health score | 72 | 80 |
| Contributors | 160 | 1.0K |
| Commits per week | 48.2 | 610.4 |
| Open issues | 1.0K | 10.2K |
| Language | Python | Python |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Last commit | 17h ago | 15h ago |
| Last release | v1.0.0 | v2026.5.7 |
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