Project comparison
Compare adoption, momentum, maintenance health, and project basics before choosing which tool to evaluate deeper.
Plano is an AI-native proxy and data plane for agentic apps โ with built-in orchestration, safety, observability, and smart LLM routing so you stay focused on your agents core logic.
The agent that grows with you
Hermes Agent has the larger GitHub footprint with 144.7K stars.
Plano is currently growing faster at 0 stars this week.
Hermes Agent has the stronger health score at 80/100.
| Signal | Plano | Hermes Agent |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 6.5K | 144.7K |
| Weekly growth | 0 | 0 |
| Health score | 53 | 80 |
| Contributors | 32 | 1.0K |
| Commits per week | 9.0 | 610.4 |
| Open issues | 137 | 10.2K |
| Language | Rust | Python |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Last commit | 4d ago | 14h ago |
| Last release | 0.4.22 | v2026.5.7 |
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