OpenHands

Self-hosted control center for coding agents with GUI, CLI and SDK surfaces

What OpenHands does

  • 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

OpenHands — straight answers

What is OpenHands?

OpenHands is listed under Autonomous Coding Agents, in the Code & Development category on Flocci AI Tools. Self-hosted control center for coding agents with GUI, CLI and SDK surfaces. It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at openhands.dev.

Is OpenHands free?

OpenHands is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 115 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.

What can OpenHands do?

OpenHands does 3 things the catalog singles out: 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.

What is the best free alternative to OpenHands?

Codegen is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Autonomous Coding Agents sub-category and is free tier + paid plans. Google Jules also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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Devin

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  • Plans, writes, tests and opens PRs
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Google Jules

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freemium
  • Async coding agent that fixes issues & PRs
  • Runs in a cloud VM on your repo
  • Powered by Gemini
  • Free daily tasks

Factory

Autonomous Coding Agents
  • Enterprise 'Droids' across the whole SDLC
  • Delegate coding, review and migration
  • Terminal and cloud execution
  • Team and enterprise focus

Codegen

Autonomous Coding Agents
freemium
  • 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

Cursor

AI IDEs & Editors
freemium
  • AI-first VS Code fork with agent mode
  • Multi-file edits and terminal commands
  • Codebase-wide context and rules
  • Free tier with limited requests

Google Antigravity

AI IDEs & Editors
freemium
  • Google's agent-first IDE
  • Powered by Gemini 3 models
  • Autonomous multi-step coding
  • Free access tier

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