OpenHands

OpenHands (formerly OpenDevin) is an open-source platform for autonomous AI software agents built by OpenHands. It enables AI agents to act as full software engineers: writing code, running terminal commands, browsing the web for documentation, interacting with APIs, and submitting pull requests. Given a GitHub issue or task description, OpenHands plans and executes the full solution autonomously. 80.6k GitHub stars and growing. The agent operates in a sandboxed Docker environment with access to terminal, code editor, browser, and file system. It can install dependencies, run test suites, debug failures, and iterate until the task is complete, replicating the workflow of a human developer. OpenHands supports Claude (Anthropic), GPT-4o (OpenAI), Gemini, and open-source models including Llama and Qwen. The platform is consistently benchmarked on SWE-bench with published results, giving teams objective performance data not available from most commercial coding agents. Three deployment options are available. Open Source (free, self-hosted, unlimited conversations, full MIT license, all major LLMs supported via BYOK). Individual SaaS (free, BYOK or at-cost model pricing, GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket integration, Jira and Slack integration, unlimited daily conversations). Enterprise (custom pricing, self-hosted VPC option via Kubernetes, Agent Control Plane, unlimited concurrent conversations, Large Codebase SDK, SAML and SSO, multi-user RBAC, budgeting enforcement, usage reporting, priority support with named Customer Engineer). The primary interface is now Agent Canvas, a browser-based UI and backend server that replaced the legacy CLI and Local GUI as the default development surface. Sub-Agent Delegation via TaskToolSet enables multi-agent workflows where different agents handle specialized aspects of complex tasks. MCP support is included across all plans. Integration depth is write-level into the codebase. OpenHands reads the repository, makes changes across multiple files, runs tests, and creates pull requests. Cloud plans add Jira and Slack workflow integrations for issue tracking and notification. The Agent Control Plane on Enterprise enables orchestration of multiple OpenHands agents across different tasks simultaneously. The Cloud Agent SDK provides programmatic access for automation and scripting workflows. Pricing transparency is partial. The free self-hosted and Individual SaaS tiers are clearly defined with unlimited conversations. Enterprise pricing requires a sales conversation and is not published. This is appropriate given the deployment complexity and infrastructure requirements of enterprise-scale autonomous coding agents. OpenHands is not the right fit for teams needing unsupervised production deployment without strong code review processes. It can produce incorrect or partial solutions on ambiguous requirements. Treat it as a highly capable junior engineer that requires review before merging. Devin and GitHub Copilot are commercial alternatives with managed infrastructure and SLAs but at materially higher per-seat costs. Teams not comfortable managing model API costs or Docker infrastructure will find the self-hosted path more demanding than fully managed commercial coding agents.