diff --git a/RNTester/android/app/build.gradle b/RNTester/android/app/build.gradle
index ee86770ede2..0a36475ade5 100644
--- a/RNTester/android/app/build.gradle
+++ b/RNTester/android/app/build.gradle
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ project.ext.react = [
     root: "$rootDir",
     inputExcludes: ["android/**", "./**", ".gradle/**"],
     composeSourceMapsPath: "$rootDir/scripts/compose-source-maps.js",
-    hermesCommand: "../../../node_modules/hermes-engine/%OS-BIN%/hermes",
+    hermesCommand: "../../../node_modules/hermes-engine/%OS-BIN%/hermesc",
     enableHermesForVariant: { def v -> v.name.contains("hermes") }
 ]
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 18700548f49..352dcd7fe23 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
     "event-target-shim": "^5.0.1",
     "fbjs": "^1.0.0",
     "fbjs-scripts": "^1.1.0",
-    "hermes-engine": "~0.4.0",
+    "hermes-engine": "~0.5.0",
     "invariant": "^2.2.4",
     "jsc-android": "^245459.0.0",
     "metro-babel-register": "0.59.0",
diff --git a/react.gradle b/react.gradle
index bdbc40bc264..ea3fee2ee6c 100644
--- a/react.gradle
+++ b/react.gradle
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ def reactRoot = file(config.root ?: "../../")
 def inputExcludes = config.inputExcludes ?: ["android/**", "ios/**"]
 def bundleConfig = config.bundleConfig ? "${reactRoot}/${config.bundleConfig}" : null ;
 def enableVmCleanup = config.enableVmCleanup == null ? true : config.enableVmCleanup
-def hermesCommand = config.hermesCommand ?: "../../node_modules/hermes-engine/%OS-BIN%/hermes"
+def hermesCommand = config.hermesCommand ?: "../../node_modules/hermes-engine/%OS-BIN%/hermesc"
 
 def reactNativeDevServerPort() {
     def value = project.getProperties().get("reactNativeDevServerPort")
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 9f501002e24..2536d128ab4 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -3838,10 +3838,10 @@ has@^1.0.1, has@^1.0.3:
   dependencies:
     function-bind "^1.1.1"
 
-hermes-engine@~0.4.0:
-  version "0.4.0"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/hermes-engine/-/hermes-engine-0.4.0.tgz#ea3113d472871ca4791f2d75d9f68b25d82ef92c"
-  integrity sha512-7AO/K64GuVtcpUwUKDxyQXFN45RlqWrMIPMte6AeegMQMBh+MWuMU6ZOw8Jc7FGtsgiRqJRp+UX4+4UrFQXJ/A==
+hermes-engine@~0.5.0:
+  version "0.5.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/hermes-engine/-/hermes-engine-0.5.0.tgz#d914acce72e9657b3c98875ad3f9094d8643f327"
+  integrity sha512-jSuHiOhdh2+IF3bH2gLpQ37eMkdUrEb9GK6PoG3rLRaUDK3Zn2Y9fXM+wyDfoUTA3gz9EET0/IIWk5k21qp4kw==
 
 home-or-tmp@^3.0.0:
   version "3.0.0"