What is Open SWE?
Open SWE is listed under Autonomous Coding Agents, in the Code & Development category on Flocci AI Tools. Open-source asynchronous coding agent from LangChain. It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at github.com.
What Open SWE does
- Open-source asynchronous coding agent from LangChain
- Works on tasks in the background and opens pull requests
- Bring your own model
Open SWE — straight answers
Is Open SWE free?
Open SWE is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 399 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.
What can Open SWE do?
Open SWE does 3 things the catalog singles out: Open-source asynchronous coding agent from langchain; works on tasks in the background and opens pull requests; bring your own model.
What is the best free alternative to Open SWE?
mini-SWE-agent is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Autonomous Coding Agents sub-category and is free. OpenHands, SWE-agent and Google Jules also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.
See the full list →Open SWE alternatives
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Autonomous Coding Agents
- Most autonomous cloud coding agent
- Own IDE, browser, terminal and shell
- Plans, writes, tests and opens PRs
- Now includes Windsurf's team
Google Jules
Autonomous Coding Agents
- Async coding agent that fixes issues & PRs
- Runs in a cloud VM on your repo
- Powered by Gemini
- Free daily tasks
- Enterprise 'Droids' across the whole SDLC
- Delegate coding, review and migration
- Terminal and cloud execution
- Team and enterprise focus
OpenHands
Autonomous Coding Agents
- Self-hosted control center for coding agents with GUI, CLI and SDK surfaces
- Enterprise deployment controls over models, data access and auditability
- MIT licensed, 83.9k GitHub stars, very active commit history
- Infrastructure layer for deploying, orchestrating and governing many coding agents at scale
- Agents embed inside tools like ClickUp with full task/spec business context, not just code diffs
- Free tier with limited tokens plus a paid Pro tier for teams
- Roughly 100-line agent that solves GitHub issues or works in your command line
- Bash-only, no special tools; works with any LM via API
- From the Princeton/Stanford SWE-agent team