OpenHands

What it is

Self-hosted control center ('Agent Canvas') for coding agents and automations; runs OpenHands or ACP agents like Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode.

GitHub repo ↗ · openhands.dev ↗ · @OpenHandsDev ↗

Install

• Desktop/CLI per docs (Quickstart); local GUI, TUI, CLI and SDK

Unverified: exact install command not captured from README

raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/HEAD/README.md ↗ · checked Oct 16, 2026

Models

Any LLM (BYO model); can also drive third-party ACP agents.

raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/HEAD/README.md ↗ · checked Oct 16, 2026

Cost

Open source is free. Cloud Individual is free, with BYOK or OpenHands models at cost. Enterprise is custom-priced (SaaS or self-hosted VPC).

openhands.dev/pricing ↗ · checked Oct 16, 2026

Features

• Prebuilt automations (e.g. reports to Slack, decomposing GitHub issues) raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/HEAD/README.md ↗
• Switch between local, remote and cloud backends raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/HEAD/README.md ↗

Use cases

Complaints and issues

• The same user later: "writing code for both claude agent sdk / codex sdk would have been better than trying to make openhands work" ↗@ayushunleashed · Oct 1, 2026
• "it malfunctions and gets stuck in between the work manytimes. Openhands feels really unreliable." ↗@ayushunleashed · Sep 23, 2026
• Mac installer produces a damaged binary ↗Aug 21, 2026 · GitHub issue
• Agent Canvas extremely slow with more than 3 conversations; ECONNREFUSED ↗Aug 18, 2026 · GitHub issue

FAQ