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OpenHands

All Hands AI

Autonomous coding agent, formerly OpenDevin, that writes code, runs commands, browses the web and calls APIs to complete software-engineering tasks end to end. It executes inside a sandboxed runtime, works with many model providers on a bring-your-own-key basis, and ships an SDK for building on the agent directly.

The monorepo carves an enterprise directory out to separate terms, and the cloud server is a separately licensed repository. Verified 2026-08-12 via the OpenHands monorepo LICENSE, the cloud-server LICENSE and the SDK documentation.

Openness

4 high confidence
4.0
license
MIT(core)
source
public
core-gated
gated(the enterprise server is PolyForm Free Trial 1.0.0, not an OSI license)
enterprise-dir
separate-license

MIT core with a separately licensed enterprise server, which is what open core means here. A read of the repo confirms it: the monorepo LICENSE opens "Portions of this software are licensed as follows" and carves out everything under enterprise/ to enterprise/LICENSE, which is the PolyForm Free Trial License 1.0.0, and that directory's README says outright "This is NOT an open source license. Usage is limited to 30 days per calendar year without a commercial license." The enterprise server now lives in its own active repo, OpenHands/OpenHands-Cloud, under the same PolyForm license, while OpenHands/OpenHands stays MIT. Functionality is withheld from the published source for a paid tier, which is what gating means.

  • 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://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/OpenHands/legacy/blob/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-08-12

    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 2026-08-12

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

Adoption

3 high confidence
3.0

83.9k GitHub stars, an $18.8M Series A, contributors from major firms, and OpenHands Cloud with multi-user, Slack, Jira and Linear integrations. No precise active-user or download count is verified, so the level rests on reported traction rather than a counted figure.

Capability

5 high confidence
5.0

Top of the open coding-agent field on SWE-bench Verified, and model-agnostic across 100+ LLM providers with bring-your-own-key. Marktechpost reports 72% SWE-bench Verified and 67.9% GAIA for OpenHands, the highest figure any independent cited source gives an open agent, above Devin 2.0 and Cursor Background Agent. All Hands AI also publishes the OpenHands Index, whose Issue Resolution board carries a SWE-bench score for each model run inside the OpenHands SDK: the best run reads 95.8 (claude-fable-5, SDK v1.18.1) and the best non-outlier 83.8 (claude-opus-4-8), with MiniMax-M3 at 76.4 the highest open-weights model among the 17 open and 16 closed models listed. That is a vendor-run harness rather than an independent leaderboard, so what it establishes is narrower than a general claim to sit at or above proprietary agents: it places OpenHands at 83.8 on SWE-bench Verified on the scaffold's own numbers. The 5 rests on that placement plus the same-model head-to-head on the Index's alternative-agents view, with the Marktechpost 72% as the independent floor.

Verified 2026-08-12