OpenHands - AI Code Assistants Tool

Overview

OpenHands is an open-source platform for building, running, and scaling AI software-development agents. It provides a composable Python SDK for defining agent behavior, a developer-friendly CLI, a local GUI (React single-page app + REST API), and a hosted OpenHands Cloud offering with collaboration, integrations, and trial credit. The project emphasizes model-agnostic agents, sandboxed execution (Docker runtimes), and an extensible tool interface (Model Context Protocol) so agents can call external services and custom tools programmatically. ([github.com](https://github.com/All-Hands-AI/OpenHands/)) The project is actively maintained and widely adopted in the OSS community — the main GitHub repository shows tens of thousands of stars and hundreds of contributors — and the team publishes research and benchmark results (for example, the CodeAct 2.1 agent achieving strong SWE-Bench results reported by the project). OpenHands supports both local, free open-source usage and multiple cloud plans (including a Growth plan starting at $500/month and a free individual cloud tier), plus an enterprise self-host option with additional governance and support. Releases are frequent; the repository shows a recent 1.2.1 release (January 16, 2026). ([github.com](https://github.com/All-Hands-AI/OpenHands/))

Installation

Install via docker:

docker pull docker.all-hands.dev/all-hands-ai/openhands:0.58

docker run -it --rm --pull=always -e SANDBOX_RUNTIME_CONTAINER_IMAGE=docker.all-hands.dev/all-hands-ai/runtime:0.58-nikolaik -e LOG_ALL_EVENTS=true -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v ~/.openhands:/.openhands -p 3000:3000 --add-host host.docker.internal:host-gateway --name openhands-app docker.all-hands.dev/all-hands-ai/openhands:0.58

Key Features

• Composable Python Agent SDK for defining agents, tools, and conversations programmatically.
• CLI with interactive commands and terminal-driven agent conversations.
• Local GUI: REST API + React single-page app for running agents on a laptop.
• OpenHands Cloud: hosted SaaS with Slack, Jira, Linear integrations and $10 trial credit.
• Model Context Protocol (MCP) support: connect external tools via SSE, SHTTP, or stdio.
• Sandboxed Docker runtime: isolates agent-executed code in containerized sandboxes.
• Multi-LLM support and LLM proxy—bring-your-own-key or use OpenHands provider at-cost.

Community

OpenHands has a large and active open-source community (66k+ GitHub stars, hundreds of contributors) and active issue/PR activity; the team runs Slack and public docs for contributors. Users praise the agent capabilities and benchmark performance but some community threads note installation complexity (Docker/WSL) and occasional orchestration edge-cases; the maintainers publish frequent releases and blog updates. For hosted offerings, the pricing page documents free local and individual tiers, a Growth plan starting at $500/month, and custom enterprise pricing. ([github.com](https://github.com/All-Hands-AI/OpenHands/))

Key Information

• Category: Code Assistants
• Type: AI Code Assistants Tool