OpenHands

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All Hands AI

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Open-source platform for cloud coding agents by All Hands AI (formerly OpenDevin); model-agnostic, self-hostable, automates real engineering work

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Our Verdict

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The open-source answer to Devin — full control, your models, your infrastructure

OpenHands delivers most of what commercial coding agents offer while staying fully open and model-agnostic. Teams that can handle Docker and API keys get an autonomous engineer with zero markup on model costs, and the cloud/Canvas options now soften the ops burden. It rewards technical teams; non-developers should look at hosted rivals first.

Best for

•Technical teams needing a self-hosted autonomous coding agent
•Model-agnostic setups pairing any LLM with an agent runtime
•Organizations with strict data-control or compliance requirements

Consider alternatives if

•You want a managed end-to-end suite (→ Devin)
•You prefer an in-IDE assistant (→ Cursor, Claude Code)

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Supported Platforms

Web AppWindowsmacOSLinuxAPI

Available platforms include Web App, Windows, macOS, Linux, and API.

Key Features

Open-source, model-agnostic platform for cloud coding agents (formerly OpenDevin)

Agents write code, run commands, browse the web and fix issues in sandboxed runtimes

Agent Canvas: self-hosted control center for an always-on agent team

Works with any LLM provider — Anthropic, OpenAI, local models and more

OpenHands Cloud with GitHub/GitLab integration and an API/SDK

One of the most-starred coding agent repos on GitHub

Pricing

free

Open source is free forever: self-host with Docker and bring your own LLM API keys (you only pay model providers)

paid

OpenHands Cloud: free starter credits, then pay-as-you-go LLM usage; Team and Enterprise plans add centralized management, security controls and support (pricing on request)

Use Cases

Self-hosted autonomous coding inside security-sensitive organizations

Automating issue triage and PR fixes on GitHub/GitLab

Running an always-on agent team via Agent Canvas

Research and experimentation with swappable models and agents

Pros

Fully open source with no vendor lock-in — swap models freely

Self-hosting keeps code and data inside your infrastructure

Transparent: you pay LLM providers directly with no markup

Active community and rapid release cadence

Cons

Initial setup (Docker, API keys, sandboxes) requires developer skills

Results depend heavily on which LLM you plug in

Fewer turnkey enterprise integrations than commercial rivals

Self-hosted deployments need their own monitoring and cost controls

Latest Update

2026: rebranded around openhands.dev with OpenHands Cloud and Agent Canvas, a self-hosted control center that turns coding agents into an always-on engineering team; remains one of the most-starred open-source agent projects