I stopped using OpenClaw — this is the better agent that the mainstream hasn't caught up to yet

I stopped using OpenClaw — this is the better agent that the mainstream hasn't caught up to yet Raghav Sethi/MakeUseOf By  Raghav Sethi Published May 31, 2026, 9:30 AM EDT Raghav Sethi began his tech writing journey in 2022, contributing to his college’s open-source community blog. Later that year, he joined MakeUseOf, and since then has written extensively about Apple, Android, and AI. His work ranges from hands-on experiments to opinion pieces that explore the bigger picture behind emerging tech trends. Alongside his work at MUO, you can also find Raghav’s articles at XDA Developers , where he mainly focuses on Linux and the world of open-source software. Outside of writing, Raghav enjoys working on coding projects, playing the guitar, and living life on the edge by installing the latest beta software on his daily devices. Sign in to your MakeUseOf account Add Us On Summary Generate a summary of this story follow Follow followed Followed Like Like Thread Log in Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents: Try something different: Show me the facts Explain it like I’m 5 Give me a lighthearted recap I have been deep into OpenClaw for a while now . It is a great tool, genuinely, but at some point I started wondering if there was something that did everything it does and then some. So I went looking. I am the kind of person who, once something is working, immediately starts wondering what the ceiling is. The ceiling on OpenClaw turned out to be lower than I wanted. So I went looking, found Hermes , and things got a lot more interesting. Hermes beats OpenClaw in the ways that actually matter Do more, with fewer tokens If you have not heard of Hermes yet, it's basically an open-source autonomous agent, the same as OpenClaw, but with some massive benefits on top of it. Both platforms are actually quite similar otherwise. You can run both on a VPS (or any computer), choose your model, and have it do tasks for you. The real difference is what each agent does af