OpenHands (All Hands AI)
Cross-listing of OpenHands at the harness layer. OSS Devin-alternative — sandboxed full SWE agent with browser + shell + editor. Renamed from OpenDevin Mar 2024. ~40k★. Commercial offering: All Hands AI cloud (managed SaaS).
At a glance
- Type
- OSS autonomous SWE agent platform (formerly OpenDevin)
- Tier
- T1
- Section
- Agent IDEs & coding harnesses
- Created
- 2024-03
- Latest release
- OpenHands 0.x rolling
- License
- MIT
- GitHub
- ~40k★, Python
- Pricing
- Free (OSS) + paid cloud ($20/mo+)
- Funding
- All Hands AI — $5M Seed 2024 (Menlo Ventures)
Taxonomy
- storage
- kv
- retrieval
- injection
- persistence
- session
- update
- agent-controlled
- unit
- turn
- governance
- inspectable
- conflict
- llm-arbitrate
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
~40k★ GH; 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
- Self-host (Docker) + cloud SaaS
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- per-user / per-tenant
- MCP
- searched not found
- A2A
- searched not found
- OpenTelemetry
- searched not found
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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