OpenHands

Open-source autonomous coding agent you can run on your own machine or cluster.

Free tier Free and open source; hosted option plus your own model costs Verified 2026-11-09 open-sourceagentself-hosted

Use it for

Teams that need an agent they can audit, self-host, and point at a private repository

Skip it if

Anyone who wants zero setup; a useful run means Docker, a model endpoint, and a sandbox policy

An agent platform that executes code in a sandboxed runtime with browser and shell access, then reports the steps it took. Because the runtime is containerised, the blast radius is legible, which is the reason to pick it over a hosted agent. Expect to spend an afternoon on infrastructure before the first useful run.

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