OpenHands
FreemiumThe open platform for cloud coding agents.
Published 27 September 2026Last updated 3 November 2026
Scores
Popularity4/5
Widely used
84K+ GitHub stars and $18.8M in Series A funding make it one of the more established open-source autonomous coding agents, though still behind OpenCode and Cline in overall community size.
Learning Curve3/5
Moderate
The Cloud tier's web GUI is approachable quickly, but self-hosting the full platform, wiring up the SDK, or configuring the Large Codebase SDK for a big repository takes real setup and configuration work.
Flexibility5/5
Unopinionated
Model-agnostic across hosted and local providers, a full SDK for embedding into other workflows, self-hostable deployment, and 70+ tool integrations make it one of the more open-ended platforms in the subcategory.
Performance4/5
Fast
Reported 50%+ resolution rates on real-world GitHub issue benchmarks and a dedicated Large Codebase SDK for harder, bigger repositories point to solid task-completion capability, particularly on legitimate software-engineering work rather than toy tasks.
Portability5/5
No lock-in
MIT-licensed, fully self-hostable, and model-agnostic across any LLM provider or local Ollama models, with no lock-in required to use the core agent.
About OpenHands
OpenHands (formerly OpenDevin) is an open-source, MIT-licensed developer control center built by All Hands AI. It began as a standalone autonomous coding agent and is now presented as Agent Canvas, a self-hosted control center for coding agents and automations. Its own materials describe it as a way to run OpenHands, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Pi, OpenCode, or any ACP-compatible agent across local, remote, and cloud backends, a hosting and orchestration layer one level up from being a coding agent itself, joined by scheduled and webhook-triggered automations wired to Slack, GitHub, and Linear.
Agent Canvas runs as a browser interface on your own machine or a shared VM, installed through npm or Docker, alongside a CLI and a programmatic SDK for embedding agent orchestration into other workflows. Any hosted agent, including OpenHands's own built-in one, connects to an LLM through OpenRouter, direct provider API keys, or local models via Ollama. A hosted OpenHands Cloud is also available, and the Large Codebase SDK adds parallel multi-agent orchestration for bigger, legacy repositories.
The product is sold in three plans: Agent Canvas itself, free and open source for a single user or shared identity; Teams, a self-hosted deployment for up to ten users with multi-user identity, role-based access, SSO, built-in integrations, and budgeting controls, capped at 5,000 sessions a month; and Enterprise, with unlimited seats and users, an enterprise agreement, and a customer success manager.
Key Features
- Hosts and orchestrates Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, or any ACP-compatible coding agent across local, remote, and cloud backends
- Also runs its own built-in coding agent, not just external ones
- Scheduled and webhook-triggered automations wired to Slack, GitHub, and Linear
- Local web GUI, terminal UI, CLI, and a programmatic SDK
- Model-agnostic per hosted agent: OpenRouter, direct API keys, or local models via Ollama
- Large Codebase SDK for parallel multi-agent orchestration on bigger, legacy repositories
- 70+ integrations including GitHub, GitLab, and CI/CD
- Free, self-hostable open-source core with paid Teams and Enterprise plans
Pros
- Hosts multiple agents (its own, Claude Code, Codex, and other ACP-compatible tools) rather than locking users into one agent
- Scheduled and webhook automations extend it beyond interactive sessions into workflow triggers
- Fully self-hostable and free at the core, with Teams and Enterprise plans adding SSO and role-based access
- Large Codebase SDK targets the harder legacy and large-repo use case
- Large, active open-source community and an MIT licence
Cons
- Older reviews and comparisons describing OpenHands as a standalone coding agent are now out of date
- Multi-user features start at the $500-a-month Teams plan, a steep step up from the free single-user release
- The Teams plan caps usage at 5,000 sessions a month
- Self-hosting the full orchestration platform takes more setup than picking a single managed agent
OpenHands Pricing
Freemium- Free, MIT-licensed, self-hosted on a laptop or shared VM
- Single user or shared identity; bring your own LLM key
- Use any agent (Codex, Claude Code, and others) plus automations
- Up to 10 users, then $50 a month per extra seat
- Self-hosted with multi-user identity, RBAC, SSO/SAML, and budgeting controls
- Capped at 5,000 sessions a month; 30-day trial
- Everything in Teams with unlimited seats and users
- Enterprise agreement and SLA-based support
- Customer success manager; usage uncapped
Tools Related to OpenHands
Works well with OpenHands(2)
OpenHands is a self-hosted developer control center that can run and orchestrate Claude Code across local, remote, and cloud backends, alongside its own built-in agent and other ACP-compatible agents, per its own documentation.
OpenHands is a self-hosted developer control center that can run and orchestrate Codex across local, remote, and cloud backends, alongside its own built-in agent and other ACP-compatible agents, per its own documentation.
Alternatives to OpenHands(7)
Both orchestrate multiple coding-agent CLIs across parallel sessions rather than running a single agent loop — OpenHands centres on a browser-based multi-agent control center, Orca on a native desktop app with git-worktree isolation.
herdr is a lightweight terminal multiplexer that keeps coding-agent sessions alive and reattachable from any machine; OpenHands is a self-hosted control center that runs and orchestrates agents across backends. herdr for persistence, OpenHands for orchestration.
OpenHands and Warp are both Agentic Dev Environments that host and coordinate external coding-agent CLIs across parallel sessions. OpenHands is self-hosted and open source with an SDK and enterprise deployment path; Warp is a proprietary terminal that bundles its own agent alongside hosted ones.
Both are open-source control centers for orchestrating multiple coding-agent CLIs — OpenHands centers on a browser-based multi-agent control center with an enterprise deployment path, T3 Code on an Electron desktop app with mobile clients.
Both orchestrate multiple coding-agent CLIs across parallel sessions — OpenHands is open-source and browser-based with an enterprise deployment path, Conductor a closed-source, macOS-only native app.
Both are open-source, self-hostable control planes for orchestrating multiple coding-agent CLIs — OpenHands centers on a browser-based control center with an enterprise deployment path, Paseo on a lightweight daemon with native mobile and desktop clients.
