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Mila Agent, OpenClaw or Hermes — which one runs a business chat?
OpenClaw and Hermes Agent are excellent open agents — universal assistants for a person. Mila takes a narrower job: a digital employee for a small business, on Telegram. Here is how they differ on five things a business owner asks first.
| Mila Agent | OpenClaw | Hermes Agent | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Made for | a business on Telegram — clients, promises, team chats | a universal personal assistant | a personal agent that grows with you |
| Clients and sales | built-in skills: CRM of dialogs, promises and tasks, owner cards, weekly plan and Friday report (README) | no CRM or sales features in the docs; general skills from ClawHub (docs) | no CRM or sales features in the docs; self-written and hub skills (docs) |
| Telegram | Telegram only: DMs, groups, your public bot (README) | Telegram among 33 channels, forum topics supported (docs) | Telegram among 28 channels (docs) |
| What waits for the owner's yes | broadcasts, paid work above your limit, messages to new chats wait for your ✅; ordinary replies in connected chats are not gated (README) | approval for shell commands (policy + allowlist + optional ask) (docs); no general gate for sending messages found in the docs | approval for dangerous shell commands (security.md); no approval step for outgoing messages in the docs |
| Ready-made agents | Mila Market: ready Milas for a trade — 16 listed, 6 working (mila.market) | ClawHub — public skills registry; docs say treat third-party skills as untrusted code (docs) | skills hub with a security scanner on install (docs) |
| Rules of conduct | 10 laws; 7 held by code (constitution) | — | — |
| Engine and models | Claude Code with your own Claude plan or API key | 70+ model providers (docs) | Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI, own endpoint (README) |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT | MIT |
| Moves with you | mila export / mila restore, keys never in the archive | Markdown workspace files | hermes import-agent imports from OpenClaw |
Checked 31.10.2026. The source of every fact is linked in its cell.
Mila's minuses.
- Telegram only.
- Runs on Claude only (your plan or API key).
- Answers while your machine and the session run — use an always-on computer or a server.
- macOS and Linux; Windows via WSL.
- A young project: OpenClaw has ~393k stars and Hermes ~259k; Mila is just starting (GitHub, 31.10).