OpenHands

license

MIT(core)

source

public

core features withheld

yes — the enterprise server is PolyForm Free Trial 1.0.0, not an OSI license

enterprise-dir

separate-license

OpenHands' core is MIT-licensed, but its enterprise server, now published in its own OpenHands-Cloud repository, carries a separate PolyForm Free Trial License that its own documentation calls "not an open source license" and limits use to 30 days a year without a commercial agreement. Because a real product, the enterprise server, is withheld from the open-source license, OpenHands is open core rather than fully open.

• https://docs.openhands.dev/sdk recorded 2026-08-15

  The SDK documentation, describing the open-source agent SDK and how to build on it. Establishes that the core is published and usable without the enterprise server.

• https://github.com/All-Hands-AI/OpenHands recorded 2026-08-15

  Repository page for All-Hands-AI/OpenHands: 'MIT license' in the sidebar, 84.1k stars, 10.9k forks, public and unarchived. The MIT half of the open_core reading; the separately licensed enterprise server is what the score's own note establishes.

• https://github.com/OpenHands/legacy/blob/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-09-15

  the monorepo LICENSE opens "Portions of this software are licensed as follows" and carves everything under enterprise/ out to enterprise/LICENSE, with everything else under MIT

• https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands-Cloud/blob/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-09-15

  PolyForm Free Trial License 1.0.0 on the live enterprise/cloud server repo, while OpenHands/OpenHands stays MIT

OpenHands has no verified active-user or download count, so this reading draws on reported signs of traction instead: substantial GitHub star growth, a Series A funding round, contributors from major companies, and a hosted OpenHands Cloud with multi-user Slack, Jira and Linear integrations.

• https://github.com/All-Hands-AI/OpenHands recorded 2026-08-13

  83.9k stars, 10.9k forks, MIT license; no user or download figure on the page

• https://theaiagentindex.com/agents/openhands recorded 2026-10-08

  Directory entry: "It has 90k GitHub stars and is MIT licensed"; self-hosted with no vendor lock-in; the entry publishes no user count.

OpenHands is a sandboxed, model-agnostic coding agent that also runs other coding agents, including Claude Code, Codex and Gemini, through its Agent Canvas control center. Its maintainers publish the OpenHands Index, a public board scoring model configurations on SWE-bench and other tasks, but that board is run by the vendor rather than an independent party.

• https://github.com/All-Hands-AI/OpenHands recorded 2026-08-13

  MIT, sandboxed agent runtime, 100+ LLM providers via BYOK

• https://index.openhands.dev/issue-resolution recorded 2026-09-29

  The OpenHands Index Issue Resolution board carries a "Swe-Bench Score" column and a filter reading "Show only open models (17 open, 16 closed)".

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-29

  The README leads with the self-hosted control center: "Run OpenHands, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, or any ACP-compatible agent across local, remote, and cloud backends" and "Agent Canvas runs the open source OpenHands agent out-of-the-box".

• https://theaiagentindex.com/agents/openhands recorded 2026-09-29

  The directory entry says "All Hands AI publishes the OpenHands Index, a public leaderboard scoring 33 model configurations across five categories" and lists SWE-bench and MIT among its tags.

• https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/05/15/best-ai-agents-for-software-development-ranked-a-benchmark-driven-look-at-the-current-field/ recorded 2026-08-13

  OpenHands - SWE-bench Verified 72%, GAIA 67.9%, MIT, free to self-host, 100+ LLM backends