Agent Smith vs OpenHands (2026)

Agent Smith

by Nuclear Cyborg Corp

OpenHands

by All Hands AI

Pros

• ✓Runs the full autonomous software engineering loop: reads an issue, writes code, runs tests, debugs failures and submits a pull request without per-step human direction.
• ✓Open source under MIT with bring-your-own-key model support, so it self-hosts on your own infrastructure with your choice of model and carries no vendor lock-in. It has 93k GitHub stars.
• ✓All Hands AI publishes the OpenHands Index, a public leaderboard scoring 33 model configurations across five categories of real engineering work, with per-category cost, runtime and downloadable logs. Very few commercial coding agents publish comparable evidence.
• ✓Scheduled and event-driven automations, MCP connections and bring-your-own-agent support through ACP are included in the free Agent Canvas, so automations can open pull requests without a developer at the keyboard.

Limitations

• –Training depends on the tier. On the hosted service the privacy policy states that All Hands AI may use content and feedback from your use of the Services to train and tune its AI models, with no opt-out published. Under an Enterprise Customer Agreement customer data is not used for training, and the self-hosted Open Source build sends nothing to the vendor.
• –The trust center lists SOC 2 and a SOC 2 Type II report that is available only on request, and the Security FAQ, dated July 2026, records ISO 27001 as not yet held, so buyers who need the attestation itself have to ask for it.
• –Teams starts at $500 a month for up to 10 users and is capped at 5,000 sessions a month, and unlimited seats, an enterprise agreement and dedicated support need Enterprise, whose price is not published.