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OpenHands

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

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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 396 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.

Can I use OpenHands in a browser, or is there an app?

OpenHands works in a normal browser tab with no install. It is available on the web, the command line, self-hosting and an API.

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?

mini-SWE-agent is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Autonomous Coding Agents sub-category and is free. Open SWE, SWE-agent and Google Jules also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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OpenHands alternatives

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Devin

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
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Google Jules

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

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

Autonomous Coding Agents
freeNew
  • 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
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SWE-agent

Autonomous Coding Agents
freeNew
  • Takes a GitHub issue and tries to fix it automatically with your LM of choice
  • Research-grade agent-computer interface for repo edits
  • MIT-licensed
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Open SWE

Autonomous Coding Agents
freeNew
  • Open-source asynchronous coding agent from LangChain
  • Works on tasks in the background and opens pull requests
  • Bring your own model
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Head-to-head comparisons

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