OpenHands
Cross-listing of OpenHands at the harness layer. OSS Devin-alternative — sandboxed full SWE agent with browser + shell + editor. Renamed from OpenDevin Mar 2024. Commercial offering: All Hands AI cloud (managed SaaS).
Active · Verified 2026-10-31 · fresh as of 2026-10-31 · 63 cited facts, 49 with a third-party source · 3 recorded changes · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- OSS autonomous SWE agent platform (formerly OpenDevin) third-party fix
- Tier
- T1
- Section
- Agent IDEs & coding harnesses
- Latest release
- v1.24.0 (2026-09-25) repo fix
- GitHub
- OpenHands/OpenHands (formerly All-Hands-AI/OpenHands) — ~92k stars, last commit 2026-09 repo fix
- Pricing
- Free (OSS) + paid cloud ($20/mo+) third-party fix
- Funding
- All Hands AI — $5M Seed 2024 (Menlo Ventures) third-party fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-31 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- SDK languages
- python, rest repo fix
- Protocols
- mcp-client vendor fix
- Developer activity
- OpenRank 81.64 (12-mo avg 116.25) — 2025-09 third-party fix
When to use
Optimised for: open-source SWE agent with full browser+shell+editor sandbox
Anti-fit: heavier setup than Aider/Claude Code; Docker required
Pros & cons
Pros
Most-active OSS autonomous-SWE agent project; SWE-bench-Verified scores hold their own against Devin's; transparent algorithms for researchers.
Cons
Self-host setup is non-trivial (Docker); commercial cloud less polished than Devin / Replit Agent.
Claims & capabilities
Among highest-starred OSS Devin alternatives; Robert Brennan (CEO) was Devin's PM-2 before founding.
Technical surface
- API surface
- Web UI + CLI + Python SDK
- Backend storage
- Docker sandbox state
- Deployment
- Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — Docker/local self-host + OpenHands Cloud (commercial)
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- per-user / per-tenant
- MCP
- yes — connects to external MCP servers over SSE, Streamable HTTP or stdio
- A2A
- searched not found
- OpenTelemetry
- searched not found
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Sources (62 cited facts, 49 third-party)
Each fact links to the page it came from; the badge says who published it (how to read sources).
- What it is OSS autonomous SWE agent platform (formerly OpenDevin) third-party
- What it does & what's distinct Cross-listing of OpenHands at the harness layer. OSS Devin-alternative — sandboxed full … third-party
- Claims / benefits Among highest-starred OSS Devin alternatives; Robert Brennan (CEO) was Devin's PM-2 befo… third-party
- Modalities text third-party
- Created 2024-03 third-party
- Latest release v1.24.0 (2026-09-25) repo
- License MIT third-party
- GitHub OpenHands/OpenHands (formerly All-Hands-AI/OpenHands) — ~92k stars, last commit 2026-09 repo
- Mindshare 20+ HN threads; widely cited as the OSS Devin third-party
- Funding All Hands AI — $5M Seed 2024 (Menlo Ventures) third-party
- Customers / scale OSS + paid cloud SaaS customers (undisclosed) third-party
- Pricing Free (OSS) + paid cloud ($20/mo+) third-party
- Data handling OSS — local; cloud SaaS — All Hands-managed third-party
- Deployment Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — Docker/local self-host + OpenHands Cloud (commercial) repo
- HQ US (Robert Brennan and team) third-party
- Founders / pedigree Robert Brennan (CEO), Xingyao Wang, Frank Xu, Graham Neubig third-party
- Memory volume / scale no scale claim third-party
- Performance SOTA-class OSS SWE-bench-Verified scores third-party
- Code/weights release Open-source — github.com/All-Hands-AI/OpenHands third-party
- API surface Web UI + CLI + Python SDK third-party
- Backend storage Docker sandbox state third-party
- Multi-tenancy per-user / per-tenant third-party
- Encryption TLS third-party
- Namespace primitives per-session sandbox third-party
- Contradiction handling LLM resolves third-party
- MCP support yes — connects to external MCP servers over SSE, Streamable HTTP or stdio vendor
- Validated verticals coding agents — research labs + indie devs third-party
- Time to running <30min (Docker setup) third-party
- Anti-fit heavier setup than Aider/Claude Code; Docker required third-party
- Optimised for open-source SWE agent with full browser+shell+editor sandbox third-party
- Adjacent infrastructure Docker; Anthropic + OpenAI APIs third-party
- Pros Most-active OSS autonomous-SWE agent project; SWE-bench-Verified scores hold their own a… third-party
- Cons Self-host setup is non-trivial (Docker); commercial cloud less polished than Devin / Rep… third-party
- Project & sources all-hands.dev; github.com/All-Hands-AI/OpenHands third-party
- obs-langsmith yes third-party
- obs-helicone yes third-party
- obs-langfuse yes third-party
- obs-custom LiteLLM-mediated — picks up most LiteLLM-supported callbacks third-party
- cost-token-budget yes third-party
- cost-prompt-caching yes third-party
- cost-semantic-caching no third-party
- cost-batching no third-party
- cost-model-routing yes third-party
- cost-streaming-only no third-party
- cost-observability-cost-attribution no third-party
- eval-langsmith-evals no third-party
- eval-braintrust no third-party
- eval-weights-and-biases-agent no third-party
- eval-helicone-evals no third-party
- eval-custom-test-harness yes repo
- eval-human-loop no third-party
- eval-production-traffic-replay no third-party
- commit-trajectory [{"ym":"2025-12","cum":5785},{"ym":"2026-01","cum":5971},{"ym":"2026-02","cum":6119},{"y… repo
- download-trajectory [{"ym":"2025-11","monthly":325375,"cum":325375},{"ym":"2025-12","monthly":288273,"cum":6… registry
- capability-benchmark-sources swe-bench-verified: 71.8% (OpenHands + GPT-5, leaderboard entry 2025-08-07) https://www.… third-party
- architecture-deployment-locus hybrid repo
- licensing-bucket open-core vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product both vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- developer-activity-opendigger {"activity":266.4,"as_of":"2025-09","openrank_12mo":116.25,"openrank_current":81.64,"par… third-party
- sdk-languages python,rest repo
- protocol-support mcp-client vendor
What changed
Changes to this record's lifecycle, licence, release, pricing and hosting facts, from the catalog's git history. Subscribe (Atom)
- 2026-11-02
- Name “OpenHands (All Hands AI)” → “OpenHands”
- MCP support first recorded as “yes — connects to external MCP servers over SSE, Streamable HTTP or stdio” source
- 2026-10-29
- Homepage “https://www.all-hands.dev” → “https://www.openhands.dev/”
- 2026-10-26
- Latest release “OpenHands 0.x rolling” → “v1.24.0 (2026-09-25)” source
- Deployment “Self-host (Docker) + cloud SaaS” → “Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — Docker/local self-host + OpenHands Cloud (commercial)” source
Related systems
References (2)
- Anthropic Claude (foundation models) depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: Docker; Anthropic + OpenAI APIs
- OpenAI GPT family (GPT-5 / GPT-4o / o3 / o4) depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: Docker; Anthropic + OpenAI APIs
Referenced by (3)
- Invariant Guardrails integrates with — Invariant Gateway README has a OpenHands integration section. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Laminar integrates with — Laminar integrations docs have a OpenHands SDK observability page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Vercel AI Gateway integrates with — Vercel AI Gateway docs have a OpenHands coding-agent page. (verified 2026-10-29)