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OpenHands

OpenHands

OpenHands is a coding agent that works on tasks in the cloud by OpenHands.

Summary

OpenHands is an open-source platform for coding agents under the MIT license. The project started in March 2024 as OpenDevin. Today there is the managed OpenHands Cloud service and the self-hosted Agent Canvas, also as a desktop preview.

Self-hosted, OpenHands is free and models connect via your own API keys. For teams, the cloud starts at $500 per month. The former CLI is no longer actively maintained.

Popularity

How often the harness is searched for, used and mentioned, compared with every harness in the directory.

There is no popularity data for this harness yet.

Changelog

Every update and new release of OpenHands is in the changelog.

Open the OpenHands changelog

Sources

Every fact on this profile rests on one of these sources. The date is the day the source was read.

SourceBacksRead on
docs.openhands.devKindNovember 7, 2026
api.github.com/repos/OpenHands/OpenHandsLaunch date, Open source, License, GitHub repository (popularity index)November 7, 2026
openhands.dev/pricingEntry price, Model accessNovember 7, 2026
docs.openhands.dev/openhands/usage/agent-canvas/setupPlatformsNovember 7, 2026
registry.npmjs.org/@openhands/agent-canvasnpm package (popularity index)November 7, 2026
pypi.org/pypi/openhands-ai/jsonPyPI package (popularity index)November 7, 2026

Frequently asked questions about OpenHands

OpenHands is made by OpenHands. It has been publicly available since March 2024.

The vendor states the entry price as “Free self-hosted with your own API key; Teams from $500 per month”.

Yes. OpenHands is licensed under MIT.

OpenHands ships without models. You connect your own API key or subscription.

According to the vendor, OpenHands runs on macOS, Windows, Linux and in the browser.