Project comparison
Compare adoption, momentum, maintenance health, and project basics before choosing which tool to evaluate deeper.
CLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands. Single Rust binary, zero dependencies
The agent that grows with you
Hermes Agent has the larger GitHub footprint with 144.7K stars.
Rtk is currently growing faster at 0 stars this week.
Hermes Agent has the stronger health score at 80/100.
| Signal | Rtk | Hermes Agent |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 46.1K | 144.7K |
| Weekly growth | 0 | 0 |
| Health score | 72 | 80 |
| Contributors | 91 | 1.0K |
| Commits per week | 57.0 | 610.4 |
| Open issues | 884 | 10.2K |
| Language | Rust | Python |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Last commit | 19h ago | 14h ago |
| Last release | v0.39.0 | v2026.5.7 |
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