Yes, OpenHands offers a free tier with Full open-source agent (local), Cloud Individual: 10 daily conversations, Model-agnostic — bring your own key. Paid plans start at $500/mo.

What are the limitations of OpenHands?

Cloud Growth plan is expensive at $500/mo for team features. Self-hosting requires infrastructure setup and management. Output quality depends heavily on which LLM you connect. Complex setup compared to commercial alternatives like Devin.

OpenHands

Open-source autonomous software engineering agent

Best open-source AI agent

Engineering teams who want a powerful, open-source autonomous coding agent they can self-host

Founded 2024 · USA

Good Fit If You're...

Engineering team wanting an open-source Devin alternative

OpenHands does what Devin does — autonomous planning, coding, testing, and deployment — but it's fully open-source. Self-host it and pay only for LLM API costs.

Automating PR reviews and vulnerability fixes at scale

Connect OpenHands to your GitHub/GitLab repos and it autonomously reviews PRs, fixes vulnerabilities, and handles code migrations across your entire codebase.

Platform team building custom AI developer workflows

The SDK lets you build custom agents and automation pipelines. If you need AI that fits your specific engineering processes, OpenHands is the foundation to build on.

Running AI agents locally for sensitive codebases

Self-host OpenHands with sandboxed execution and your own LLM keys. No code leaves your infrastructure — critical for regulated industries and proprietary code.