How does OpenHands compare with the alternatives?
Pick OpenHands when your team should operate the agent and hold the model contracts: it is MIT-licensed, runs on any model you connect, and can run entirely on your infrastructure. Pick Devin when Cognition should run it, with the agent loop in Cognition's cloud.
Pick Codex for OpenAI models inside ChatGPT plans with an OS-level sandbox, and OpenHands for any model in a Docker or managed sandbox. On GPT-5.5, All Hands AI's harness scores them within 0.2 points on SWE-bench Verified. Each offers a local agent and a hosted service that turns tasks into pull requests.
