What engineering leaders and their teams report about OpenHands, with every finding tied to its evidence.
Read the findingsPractitioner sentiment, all practitioners
+15 Mixed from 52 sources that take a side
How this figure is madeFrom 47 authors in 42 discussions. Use a task pilot to measure accepted work and review time.
Jan 2025 to Oct 2026.
76 sources from practitioners, by month and sentiment.
The read is mixed, and one benchmark paper gives no overall opinion. Every source that discusses end-to-end execution or model choice praises it. Unreliable tasks draw the most concerns, and setup friction follows in 17 sources.
Positive, mixed and negative sources
The score counts them as 18 positive, 18 mixed and 11 negative votes, one per author. See How the numbers work.
See the evidenceBelow: 6 praise themes, 5 concerns, 3 close to agreement and 2 disagreements.
Counted for All practitioners, from 76 sources. Change group
Every capability practitioners describe positively, ranked by how many sources say so. Open one to read who said it.
Counted for All practitioners.
Positive
Today's AI, YouTube creator
OpenHands Agent Canvas Demo | AI Agent Builds and Tests a Python GradebookVideo, YouTube
Agent Canvas planned, coded, tested and documented a dependency-free Python gradebook; Today's AI verifies the tests and stresses that human review is still needed.
"Uh you can see that Asent Canvas can automate planning, coding, testing. But, human review still necessary. Uh the user basically responsible for defining the scope, project secret, inspecting general code, and deciding whether the evidence is sufficient."
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Adoption and upkeep
Positive
Prompt Engineer 48, YouTube creator
I Made an Open-Source AI Fix My Code & Open a Pull Request (OpenHands)Video, YouTube
On a VPS-hosted OpenHands using Claude Sonnet 4.6 through OpenRouter, the agent read a GitHub issue about completed to-dos showing as pending and a reversed priority sort, fixed the get-pending function, reported five tests passed and opened a pull request the author merged.
"So, you can see this pull request. I did not write it. It was written by OpenHands. This is an open-source AI that uh it read the broken repo, found the bug, fixed it, and then opened this PR by itself. Okay? Then I went…"
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Operational control, Cost predictability and limits
Mixed
Manriqueemanuel, Medium
Building an Autonomous Coding Run with Ralphie, OpenHands, Ollama, and Vast.aiPersonal blog post, Medium
Ran headless OpenHands on a Vast.ai VM with Ollama serving a Qwen3-family coding model. The GUI looked fine when it was not, the first autonomous runs exposed fake progress, and progress controllers and driver scripts were needed before a final burst ended with 48 passing tests and a stable MVP.
Practitioner account, self-described; ran the rollout; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
Positive
Rybens92, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
I vibe coded (I hope) useful tool for local LLMs inferenceReddit post
With the OpenHands CLI and MiniMax M2 Rybens92 built and published a bash tool that installs and updates llama.cpp binaries, in about two days.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Positive
Isaac Flath, Independent consultant (per Substack author profile)
OpenHands Agent Tool Review: A Smooth Migration with a Little GuidanceTool review, Elite AI Assisted Coding (Substack)
OpenHands migrated their blog to a new framework with a plan step and a running local build, needing a few prompts and small manual fixes; Isaac Flath calls the experience largely positive.
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Adoption and upkeep
Positive
Isaac Flath, Independent consultant (YouTube channel)
Open Hands Tool ReviewVideo, YouTube
Isaac Flath's video review follows a smooth migration from voice-prompted setup to a successful result, with minor issues to steer past.
"…was migrating the blog. It was pretty positive. It wasn't fully autonomous. I never really expect these things to be completely hands-off where I don't have to think at all or do anything at all. I always hope they will be, but…"
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Positive
EternalSilverback, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
Comment on: OpenHands + Devstral is utter crap as of May 2025 (24G VRAM)Reddit comment
On their first run, OpenHands with Claude Sonnet 3.7 built a small WebGPU app with unit tests and served it for review for about US$0.44. Their attempt with a local model failed to start.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Cost predictability and limits
Positive
Mr_Moonsilver, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
Why has no one been talking about Open Hands so far?Reddit post
Trying OpenHands with Devstral, Mr_Moonsilver was impressed by how capable the agent is and finds it as capable as the other top open-source coding agents.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes
No opinion stated
ByteDance Seed research team, authors of Multi-SWE-bench
Multi-SWE-bench: A Multilingual Benchmark for Issue ResolvingIndependent benchmark paper, arXiv
ByteDance adapted OpenHands to Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, Rust, C, and C++ and ran it against Agentless and SWE-agent on 1,632 issues. OpenHands had the highest resolve rate in five of the seven languages, and its model-driven workflow took more turns and cost more than fixed-workflow Agentless.
"Overall, MopenHands outperforms the others in most cases, achieving the highest resolved rate in five out of seven languages, while MSWE-agent wins twice and MagentLess wins once."
Practitioner account; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Mixed
fragmede, Hacker News commenter, self-described
Comment on: Firing programmers for AI is a mistakeHacker News comment
Recommends trying OpenHands to see where agents are heading; says it is not production-ready yet but goes off and does work on its own from a prompt.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, takes no position
Positive
Jim's Garage, YouTube creator (homelab channel)
Build Apps With Prompts! - OpenHandsVideo, YouTube
Sets up self-hosted OpenHands with an Anthropic model and a GitHub repo. From single prompts it builds a website for the channel, which picked up the wrong Jim's Garage when customized, and a working Hello World app; says one simple prompt built a working website within a few seconds.
"…change the greeting to different languages as we' seen in the background it also keeps a click counter which is possibly cool but anyway you can see how from one simple prompt I was able to build a working website within a few seconds so…"
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
Positive
Tomas Hajek, co-founder, managing consultant, and lead architect at Xper Consulting AS
Our shared agent workflow now includes review and repairCompany founder's blog post, hajek.no
Xper runs an OpenHands-based agent environment in its own cloud for DocEngine. Agents take tasks from GitHub Issues, open a pull request, review and fix their own change in a repeated loop, and a human approves the merge before automatic deployment.
"We now run an OpenHands-based agent environment in our own cloud. We have one place to change the context our agents use, their skills, and their plugins."
"It reviews the change, fixes the issues it finds, and runs that review-and-fix loop again."
Practitioner account, self-described; ran the rollout; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Operational control
Mixed
M. Chechulin, Senior Lead Software Developer at a mid-to-large company in Germany
OpenSource agentic coding systems - what can they deliver for 10$Personal blog post, Medium
Gave OpenHands, Cline and Goose US$10 each; OpenHands was the most stable (3 of 5, partial success) but overspent to US$14.97 and most often ignored instructions.
Practitioner account, self-described; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Cost predictability and limits, Adoption and upkeep
Positive
Ancapistani, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: AI models need a virtual machineHacker News comment
Has used OpenHands daily for months, locally, via CLI and in the cloud; says it is less polished than Devin but as capable, and the team is responsive to feedback.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Positive
Geek Avenue, YouTube creator (freelance LLM developer)
OpenHands(Open Devin) Excellent alterative for Devin!Video, YouTube
Shows OpenHands with GPT-4o generating an entire Vue.js to-do project from one prompt and calls it an excellent free alternative to Devin.
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Operational control, Cost predictability and limits
Positive
Cobus Greyling, YouTube creator
OpenHands is an open-source assistant designed to assist developers in software development tasks.Video, YouTube
Runs OpenHands locally, has it write and run a Hacker News bash script that it debugs on its own; likes local open-source use but flags the freedom it gets on the machine.
"Pro uh M2 Chip I think um you can see runs locally Port 3000 and um it's got integration to vs code over here um and I just asked the the coder um the the AI agent to please write a bash script which displays…"
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
Mixed
Lior Strugach, Medium
OpenHands - Your Own AI employee or yet another GPT wrapper?Personal blog post, Medium
In a company trial OpenHands failed to build an API layer after thirty minutes, but wrote internal READMEs and test coverage well; best for routine, well-defined tasks.
Practitioner account, self-described; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Operational control
Counted for All practitioners.
Positive
incomingpain, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Ask HN: Are you running local LLMs? What are your key use cases?Hacker News comment
incomingpain calls Devstral with OpenHands their most reliable local coding setup, running a Q6 quant with 85,000 context in LM Studio on a 24 GB GPU.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability, Operational control
Positive
incomingpain, Hacker News commenter, self-described
Comment on: Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-InstructHacker News comment
Trying the model from the thread: Qwen Code fails to use tools and crashes, Aider was a huge waste of time, and OpenHands is working really well apart from occasional malformed str_replace tool-call errors. The jury is still out on whether it beats Devstral.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Positive
intellectronica, Hacker News commenter, self-described
Comment on: Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside DockerHacker News comment
Points to open alternatives to Claude Code that run in any environment with any model and on your own economics, naming OpenHands and Codex CLI as current favorites.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; opinion; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Positive
AICodeKing, YouTube creator (AI coding tools)
OpenHands CLI + Gemini 2.5 Pro : This IS A REALLY AWESOME Alternative to CLAUDE CODE!Video, YouTube
Finds the new OpenHands CLI fast and lightweight, and as agentic as Claude Code with Gemini 2.5 Pro. Notes it lacks MCP support and an SDK at the time.
"…similar to claude code and ader. So that is good but that doesn't mean that it is the best because there are quite some shortcomings like a major one is that it doesn't support MCP. Yes, you can't add the MCP servers and…"
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
Positive
zackify, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: DevstralHacker News comment
Ran Mistral's Devstral locally in LM Studio with OpenHands and Cline and says it worked great in both, with about one minute of initial prompt processing on an M4 Max.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Operational control
Mixed
Venku Buragadda, Medium
OpenHands: Write code without writing a single line of codePersonal blog post, Medium
Built an ecommerce web UI with OpenHands 0.26 and Claude for around US$5-$6, getting rate limited by Anthropic every time a command was sent. Things were slow, downloading the code from the UI never completed, and the author warns to push often because nothing stops OpenHands deleting files.
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
Positive
zepearl, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Ask HN: MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLMHacker News comment
zepearl programs with OpenHands on a local Qwen3.6 27B quantized model, switching models by task on their own machine.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Operational control
Positive
Prompt Engineer 48, YouTube creator
I Made an Open-Source AI Fix My Code & Open a Pull Request (OpenHands)Video, YouTube
On a VPS-hosted OpenHands using Claude Sonnet 4.6 through OpenRouter, the agent read a GitHub issue about completed to-dos showing as pending and a reversed priority sort, fixed the get-pending function, reported five tests passed and opened a pull request the author merged.
"So, you can see this pull request. I did not write it. It was written by OpenHands. This is an open-source AI that uh it read the broken repo, found the bug, fixed it, and then opened this PR by itself. Okay? Then I went…"
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Operational control, Cost predictability and limits
Positive
Rybens92, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
I vibe coded (I hope) useful tool for local LLMs inferenceReddit post
With the OpenHands CLI and MiniMax M2 Rybens92 built and published a bash tool that installs and updates llama.cpp binaries, in about two days.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Positive
Rybens92, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
Comment on: Why has no one been talking about Open Hands so far?Reddit comment
Rybens92 calls OpenHands the best alternative to proprietary coding agents and runs it on a US$10 or US$20 Chutes.ai subscription to avoid paying per token.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; opinion; not counted, takes no position
Mixed
tbiens, GitHub user
[Bug]: str_replace error when using qwen3 coder locally.GitHub issue
The OpenHands CLI works well for tbiens with Devstral; Qwen3 Coder works 80 to 90% of the time but sometimes fails file edits with a malformed tool call.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability
Mixed
bassgojoe, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
Comment on: OpenHands + Devstral is utter crap as of May 2025 (24G VRAM)Reddit comment
bassgojoe got decent results from OpenHands on qwen2.5-coder-32b, while Devstral was horrible in every agent bassgojoe tried.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, takes no position
Positive
Srujan Reddy, srujanpakanati.com
OpenHands🤲: The Flawless Open-Source AI Coding CompanionPersonal blog post, srujanpakanati.com (Hashnode)
Finds OpenHands delightfully good with clear instructions and a free Gemini model, but self-hosting on Kubernetes took several attempts and needs a privileged pod with the Docker socket.
Practitioner account, self-described; ran the rollout; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
Positive
sentdex, YouTube creator (Python and ML programming)
Programming with LLM Agents in 2025Video, YouTube
Uses OpenHands 0.23 with Claude 3.5 Sonnet (transcribed "CLA onic 3.5") and calls these tools massive amplifications of the author's output, worth paying for. Notes the download-all-files button lately does not work, so the author asks the agent to zip the workspace instead.
"…annoyed at everything is like 20 bucks a month um but for the most part uh all these things are like massive amplifications of my my actual output so I do think it's worth it but just because I don't I don't really want to…"
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
Counted for All practitioners.
Positive, 9
Positive
Tomas Hajek, co-founder, managing consultant, and lead architect at Xper Consulting AS
Our shared agent workflow now includes review and repairCompany founder's blog post, hajek.no
Xper runs an OpenHands-based agent environment in its own cloud for DocEngine. Agents take tasks from GitHub Issues, open a pull request, review and fix their own change in a repeated loop, and a human approves the merge before automatic deployment.
"We now run an OpenHands-based agent environment in our own cloud. We have one place to change the context our agents use, their skills, and their plugins."
"It reviews the change, fixes the issues it finds, and runs that review-and-fix loop again."
Practitioner account, self-described; ran the rollout; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Operational control
Positive
Repulsive-Memory-298, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
Comment on: Why has no one been talking about Open Hands so far?Reddit comment
Has used OpenHands a ton since November, when it led SWE-bench, and says "afaik no other os comes close", though its lead didn't last. Finds it pretty bloated for local use next to newer tooling, depending on the use case, and very easy to customize with agents and microagents.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
Positive
Srujan Reddy, srujanpakanati.com
OpenHands🤲: The Flawless Open-Source AI Coding CompanionPersonal blog post, srujanpakanati.com (Hashnode)
Finds OpenHands delightfully good with clear instructions and a free Gemini model, but self-hosting on Kubernetes took several attempts and needs a privileged pod with the Docker socket.
Practitioner account, self-described; ran the rollout; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
Positive
Cobus Greyling, YouTube creator
OpenHands is an open-source assistant designed to assist developers in software development tasks.Video, YouTube
Runs OpenHands locally, has it write and run a Hacker News bash script that it debugs on its own; likes local open-source use but flags the freedom it gets on the machine.
"Pro uh M2 Chip I think um you can see runs locally Port 3000 and um it's got integration to vs code over here um and I just asked the the coder um the the AI agent to please write a bash script which displays…"
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
Positive
Prompt Engineer 48, YouTube creator
I Made an Open-Source AI Fix My Code & Open a Pull Request (OpenHands)Video, YouTube
On a VPS-hosted OpenHands using Claude Sonnet 4.6 through OpenRouter, the agent read a GitHub issue about completed to-dos showing as pending and a reversed priority sort, fixed the get-pending function, reported five tests passed and opened a pull request the author merged.
"So, you can see this pull request. I did not write it. It was written by OpenHands. This is an open-source AI that uh it read the broken repo, found the bug, fixed it, and then opened this PR by itself. Okay? Then I went…"
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Operational control, Cost predictability and limits
Mixed
Smooth-Pipe6285, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
Running OpenHands in Docker as one agent under a local orchestrator, Smooth-Pipe6285 has the web UI working but cannot find the API endpoint to connect it over ACP.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; ran the rollout; counts toward Adoption and upkeep
Positive
intellectronica, Hacker News commenter, self-described
Comment on: Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside DockerHacker News comment
Points to open alternatives to Claude Code that run in any environment with any model and on your own economics, naming OpenHands and Codex CLI as current favorites.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; opinion; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Positive
Mr_Moonsilver, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
Why has no one been talking about Open Hands so far?Reddit post
Trying OpenHands with Devstral, Mr_Moonsilver was impressed by how capable the agent is and finds it as capable as the other top open-source coding agents.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Positive
das_rdsm, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
Comment on: Why has no one been talking about Open Hands so far?Reddit comment
das_rdsm runs OpenHands headless and fully autonomous for several users, calls it a full software-engineering agent that Roo and Cline do not match, and also uses it for non-coding tasks.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; ran the rollout; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Operational control
Mixed or negative, 1
Mixed
LavaTiger99, GitHub user
[Bug]: cannot use web interface from different machineGitHub issue
Deployed on a dedicated server, the web interface loads but no conversation starts, because the worker container tries to connect on localhost when it should use the server's address.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; ran the rollout; counts toward Adoption and upkeep
Counted for All practitioners.
Positive, 9
Positive
AICodeKing, YouTube creator (AI coding tools)
OpenHands CLI + Gemini 2.5 Pro : This IS A REALLY AWESOME Alternative to CLAUDE CODE!Video, YouTube
Finds the new OpenHands CLI fast and lightweight, and as agentic as Claude Code with Gemini 2.5 Pro. Notes it lacks MCP support and an SDK at the time.
"…similar to claude code and ader. So that is good but that doesn't mean that it is the best because there are quite some shortcomings like a major one is that it doesn't support MCP. Yes, you can't add the MCP servers and…"
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
Positive
sentdex, YouTube creator (Python and ML programming)
Programming with LLM Agents in 2025Video, YouTube
Uses OpenHands 0.23 with Claude 3.5 Sonnet (transcribed "CLA onic 3.5") and calls these tools massive amplifications of the author's output, worth paying for. Notes the download-all-files button lately does not work, so the author asks the agent to zip the workspace instead.
"…annoyed at everything is like 20 bucks a month um but for the most part uh all these things are like massive amplifications of my my actual output so I do think it's worth it but just because I don't I don't really want to…"
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
Positive
Ancapistani, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: OpenAI's new GPT-5 models announced early by GitHubHacker News comment
Ancapistani uses OpenHands Cloud as their primary coding agent and adds a microagent whenever it makes an architectural choice they disagree with. The setup aligns OpenHands with their preferences over time.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Positive
Isaac Flath, Independent consultant (per Substack author profile)
OpenHands Agent Tool Review: A Smooth Migration with a Little GuidanceTool review, Elite AI Assisted Coding (Substack)
OpenHands migrated their blog to a new framework with a plan step and a running local build, needing a few prompts and small manual fixes; Isaac Flath calls the experience largely positive.
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Adoption and upkeep
Positive
Isaac Flath, Independent consultant (YouTube channel)
Open Hands Tool ReviewVideo, YouTube
Isaac Flath's video review follows a smooth migration from voice-prompted setup to a successful result, with minor issues to steer past.
"…was migrating the blog. It was pretty positive. It wasn't fully autonomous. I never really expect these things to be completely hands-off where I don't have to think at all or do anything at all. I always hope they will be, but…"
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Mixed
Daniel Manzke, Medium (works on an enterprise search product)
Burning Tokens with AI Coding AgentsPersonal blog post, Medium
Spent about US$200 in tokens building a prototype. Token use exploded late as files were regenerated and the codebase ballooned. Finds it great for prototyping and unready for complex products.
Practitioner account, self-described; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control, Cost predictability and limits, Adoption and upkeep
Mixed
rchowe, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: When AI promises speed but delivers debugging hellHacker News comment
Spent a few days with OpenHands on gpt-4o: decent at writing new code and transparent in the terminal, but struggled to change repetitive TypeScript/React code.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Positive
Geek Avenue, YouTube creator (freelance LLM developer)
OpenHands(Open Devin) Excellent alterative for Devin!Video, YouTube
Shows OpenHands with GPT-4o generating an entire Vue.js to-do project from one prompt and calls it an excellent free alternative to Devin.
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Operational control, Cost predictability and limits
Positive
Cobus Greyling, YouTube creator
OpenHands is an open-source assistant designed to assist developers in software development tasks.Video, YouTube
Runs OpenHands locally, has it write and run a Hacker News bash script that it debugs on its own; likes local open-source use but flags the freedom it gets on the machine.
"Pro uh M2 Chip I think um you can see runs locally Port 3000 and um it's got integration to vs code over here um and I just asked the the coder um the the AI agent to please write a bash script which displays…"
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
Mixed or negative, 9
Mixed
rsync, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Pi 1.0Hacker News comment
Had decent success with OpenHands but disliked its Docker infrastructure and emoji-heavy output, and now uses the Pi agent exclusively.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Adoption and upkeep
Negative
0xbadcafebee, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoEHacker News comment
Describes OpenHands as a locally run, Codex or Claude Code style web UI for remote LLMs, but calls it clunky, limited and poorly designed, preferring OpenCode's web UI.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; opinion; not counted, takes no position
Negative
sagarpatil, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool useHacker News comment
Tried OpenHands and found its UI/UX horrible, questioning why it needs a separate UI when it could work inside an IDE, a VS Code extension or a CLI.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, takes no position
Mixed
Venku Buragadda, Medium
OpenHands: Write code without writing a single line of codePersonal blog post, Medium
Built an ecommerce web UI with OpenHands 0.26 and Claude for around US$5-$6, getting rate limited by Anthropic every time a command was sent. Things were slow, downloading the code from the UI never completed, and the author warns to push often because nothing stops OpenHands deleting files.
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
Negative
im3000, Reddit user in r/ChatGPTCoding
Your thoughts on OpenHands (formerly OpenDevin)?Reddit post
im3000 tried OpenHands on a recommendation and found the Docker install clunky and the tool unpolished, and asks whether anyone uses it daily.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Adoption and upkeep
Mixed
Manriqueemanuel, Medium
Building an Autonomous Coding Run with Ralphie, OpenHands, Ollama, and Vast.aiPersonal blog post, Medium
Ran headless OpenHands on a Vast.ai VM with Ollama serving a Qwen3-family coding model. The GUI looked fine when it was not, the first autonomous runs exposed fake progress, and progress controllers and driver scripts were needed before a final burst ended with 48 passing tests and a stable MVP.
Practitioner account, self-described; ran the rollout; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
Positive
Ancapistani, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: AI models need a virtual machineHacker News comment
Has used OpenHands daily for months, locally, via CLI and in the cloud; says it is less polished than Devin but as capable, and the team is responsive to feedback.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Negative
foobarg, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
OpenHands + Devstral is utter crap as of May 2025 (24G VRAM)Reddit post
Running OpenHands offline with Devstral on a 24GB GPU, foobarg found the configuration broken and undocumented, objected to mounting the container socket, and saw Devstral fail almost every basic task.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
Negative
yeldarb, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Show HN: NYCerebro, semantic search of NYC traffic cams (written by v0)Hacker News comment
yeldarb tried OpenHands in their own codebase a couple of months earlier and found it frustrating, expensive, and no faster than doing the task themselves.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Counted for All practitioners.
Positive, 4
Positive
Tomas Hajek, co-founder, managing consultant, and lead architect at Xper Consulting AS
Our shared agent workflow now includes review and repairCompany founder's blog post, hajek.no
Xper runs an OpenHands-based agent environment in its own cloud for DocEngine. Agents take tasks from GitHub Issues, open a pull request, review and fix their own change in a repeated loop, and a human approves the merge before automatic deployment.
"We now run an OpenHands-based agent environment in our own cloud. We have one place to change the context our agents use, their skills, and their plugins."
"It reviews the change, fixes the issues it finds, and runs that review-and-fix loop again."
Practitioner account, self-described; ran the rollout; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Operational control
Positive
Prompt Engineer 48, YouTube creator
I Made an Open-Source AI Fix My Code & Open a Pull Request (OpenHands)Video, YouTube
On a VPS-hosted OpenHands using Claude Sonnet 4.6 through OpenRouter, the agent read a GitHub issue about completed to-dos showing as pending and a reversed priority sort, fixed the get-pending function, reported five tests passed and opened a pull request the author merged.
"So, you can see this pull request. I did not write it. It was written by OpenHands. This is an open-source AI that uh it read the broken repo, found the bug, fixed it, and then opened this PR by itself. Okay? Then I went…"
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Operational control, Cost predictability and limits
Mixed
intellectronica, Reddit user in r/ChatGPTCoding
Working with Asynchronous Coding AgentsReddit post
Comparing asynchronous agents on issue-to-pull-request work, intellectronica rated OpenHands capable but in need of nudges on tests and CI, behind GitHub Copilot's agent on reliability.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Positive
das_rdsm, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
Comment on: Why has no one been talking about Open Hands so far?Reddit comment
das_rdsm runs OpenHands headless and fully autonomous for several users, calls it a full software-engineering agent that Roo and Cline do not match, and also uses it for non-coding tasks.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; ran the rollout; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Operational control
Mixed or negative, 2
Mixed
gnovak, GitHub user
Resolver creates duplicate PR when model creates one independently via GitHub APIGitHub issue
With the GitHub resolver on claude-opus-4-5, the model opened its own pull request through the GitHub API with the token in its sandbox, and the resolver then opened a second one.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Mixed
Tim-Pohlmann, GitHub user
[Bug]: Line numbers are often included in str_replace commandsGitHub issue
Running the resolver in GitHub Actions, file edits often fail because the agent copies line numbers from cat -n into its replacements; an instructions file did little to stop it.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Counted for All practitioners.
Positive, 2
Positive
incomingpain, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Ask HN: Are you running local LLMs? What are your key use cases?Hacker News comment
incomingpain calls Devstral with OpenHands their most reliable local coding setup, running a Q6 quant with 85,000 context in LM Studio on a 24 GB GPU.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability, Operational control
Positive
zackify, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: DevstralHacker News comment
Ran Mistral's Devstral locally in LM Studio with OpenHands and Cline and says it worked great in both, with about one minute of initial prompt processing on an M4 Max.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Operational control
Mixed or negative, 3
Mixed
tbiens, GitHub user
[Bug]: str_replace error when using qwen3 coder locally.GitHub issue
The OpenHands CLI works well for tbiens with Devstral; Qwen3 Coder works 80 to 90% of the time but sometimes fails file edits with a malformed tool call.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability
Positive
incomingpain, Hacker News commenter, self-described
Comment on: Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-InstructHacker News comment
Trying the model from the thread: Qwen Code fails to use tools and crashes, Aider was a huge waste of time, and OpenHands is working really well apart from occasional malformed str_replace tool-call errors. The jury is still out on whether it beats Devstral.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Mixed
fragmede, Hacker News commenter, self-described
Comment on: Firing programmers for AI is a mistakeHacker News comment
Recommends trying OpenHands to see where agents are heading; says it is not production-ready yet but goes off and does work on its own from a prompt.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, takes no position
Every concern practitioners raise, most raised first.
Counted for All practitioners.
Raised as a concern, 18
Mixed
vwart, GitHub user filing an issue against OpenHands/OpenHands
Unable to connect to server is now happening everywhere, making the product unusableGitHub issue on OpenHands/OpenHands
On OpenHands Cloud, nearly every conversation left idle for about 20 minutes could no longer reach its server, and work not yet pushed was lost along with the tokens spent on it.
"Nearly every conversation reaches a state in which it is "unable to connect to server" forever. Mostly not having pushed anything, so all the work and tokens that were used are lost."
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Mixed
shukriaprinters, GitHub user filing an issue against OpenHands/OpenHands
Agent abandons the current goal, reverts to an older instruction context, and reports premature completionGitHub issue on OpenHands/OpenHands
In a long OpenHands Cloud session, the agent dropped the user's newest goal, went back to an older security-audit task, and reported all work complete while a named deliverable was still unbuilt.
"The agent silently abandoned the user's **current** goal and reverted to an **older** instruction context, then reported the task as complete while a named deliverable was still missing."
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability
Negative
juaps, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
Mac keeps rebooting with LM Studio / MLX during long OpenHands sessions - anyone found a real fix?Reddit post
Long OpenHands sessions on local Qwen and GLM models in LM Studio bring memory failures, model looping, broken tool calls, and even full reboots. The user juaps suspects LM Studio more than any one model.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, takes no position
Mixed
iurdhkpouytewwdbjo-source, GitHub user
[Bug]: Missing required parameters for function 'str_replace_editor': {'security_risk'}GitHub issue
Asked to add an HTML page, the agent failed every file edit with a missing-parameter error on claude-sonnet-4; switching to qwen3-coder-plus cleared it after one error.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Mixed
BaxBit, GitHub user
[Bug]: agent stuck in loop reading workspaceGitHub issue
On OpenHands Cloud the agent kept repeating its first step, reading the workspace, even after the user stepped in to guide it.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Mixed
knail1, GitHub user
Even a brand-new session with a simple command hits Anthropic's 20,000 input tokens per minute limit for their organization, so OpenHands stalls on rate-limit errors.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Mixed
iSevenDays, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
Comment on: OpenHands + Devstral is utter crap as of May 2025 (24G VRAM)Reddit comment
On Devstral with a 131k context, OpenHands went into loops; switching to manual confirmation mode made it much better, and iSevenDays calls it a great project with a few bugs to fix.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability, Operational control
Mixed
Tim-Pohlmann, GitHub user
[Bug]: Line numbers are often included in str_replace commandsGitHub issue
Running the resolver in GitHub Actions, file edits often fail because the agent copies line numbers from cat -n into its replacements; an instructions file did little to stop it.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Negative
flutas, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude CodeHacker News comment
Tested OpenHands a few times and found it fails fairly quickly, getting hung up while setting up Kotlin and Go projects and hitting Claude rate limits fast.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Mixed
rchowe, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: When AI promises speed but delivers debugging hellHacker News comment
Spent a few days with OpenHands on gpt-4o: decent at writing new code and transparent in the terminal, but struggled to change repetitive TypeScript/React code.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Mixed
Lior Strugach, Medium
OpenHands - Your Own AI employee or yet another GPT wrapper?Personal blog post, Medium
In a company trial OpenHands failed to build an API layer after thirty minutes, but wrote internal READMEs and test coverage well; best for routine, well-defined tasks.
Practitioner account, self-described; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Operational control
Negative
nealhamiltonjr, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
Comment on: Why has no one been talking about Open Hands so far?Reddit comment
Both official installs on Debian 13, uv and Docker, hung on a spinning wheel because OpenHands could not connect to a sandbox. On the open issue, nealhamiltonjr saw no reply from the team.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Adoption and upkeep
Mixed
iWedmak, GitHub user
[Bug]: openhands.app_server.errors.SandboxError: 500: Sandbox failed to start within 120sGitHub issue
On OpenHands 1.2 installed with the README Docker command, conversations fail with "Sandbox failed to start within 120s". It sometimes starts normally, and for some repos and branches it starts fine while others time out.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Mixed
0x457, Hacker News commenter, self-described
Comment on: Grok 4Hacker News comment
Lists questions the author asks before handing work to an agent, given an AGENTS.md file, such as whether the agent can verify the solution itself and whether the starting context is enough. Recalls Claude and OpenHands instantly digging themselves holes before the author realized there was zero project context.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Mixed
matty-fortune, GitHub user
[Bug]: The agent (Devstral) frequently forgets that it's an agent and starts acting like a typical LLMGitHub issue
Running OpenHands on local Devstral, simple prompts such as building a React button component usually fail: the model creates no files and tells the user to create them.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Mixed
Amazing_Athlete_2265, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
Comment on: OpenHands + Devstral is utter crap as of May 2025 (24G VRAM)Reddit comment
Devstral through OpenRouter works well in OpenHands when it works but sometimes loops; on their limited hardware Amazing_Athlete_2265 prefers Aider, which lets Amazing_Athlete_2265 control context size.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control
Mixed
Venku Buragadda, Medium
OpenHands: Write code without writing a single line of codePersonal blog post, Medium
Built an ecommerce web UI with OpenHands 0.26 and Claude for around US$5-$6, getting rate limited by Anthropic every time a command was sent. Things were slow, downloading the code from the UI never completed, and the author warns to push often because nothing stops OpenHands deleting files.
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
Mixed
Daniel Manzke, Medium (works on an enterprise search product)
Burning Tokens with AI Coding AgentsPersonal blog post, Medium
Spent about US$200 in tokens building a prototype. Token use exploded late as files were regenerated and the codebase ballooned. Finds it great for prototyping and unready for complex products.
Practitioner account, self-described; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control, Cost predictability and limits, Adoption and upkeep
Discussed without concern, 5
Mixed
M. Chechulin, Senior Lead Software Developer at a mid-to-large company in Germany
OpenSource agentic coding systems - what can they deliver for 10$Personal blog post, Medium
Gave OpenHands, Cline and Goose US$10 each; OpenHands was the most stable (3 of 5, partial success) but overspent to US$14.97 and most often ignored instructions.
Practitioner account, self-described; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Cost predictability and limits, Adoption and upkeep
Mixed
fragmede, Hacker News commenter, self-described
Comment on: Firing programmers for AI is a mistakeHacker News comment
Recommends trying OpenHands to see where agents are heading; says it is not production-ready yet but goes off and does work on its own from a prompt.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, takes no position
Mixed
intellectronica, Reddit user in r/ChatGPTCoding
Working with Asynchronous Coding AgentsReddit post
Comparing asynchronous agents on issue-to-pull-request work, intellectronica rated OpenHands capable but in need of nudges on tests and CI, behind GitHub Copilot's agent on reliability.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Positive
incomingpain, Hacker News commenter, self-described
Comment on: Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-InstructHacker News comment
Trying the model from the thread: Qwen Code fails to use tools and crashes, Aider was a huge waste of time, and OpenHands is working really well apart from occasional malformed str_replace tool-call errors. The jury is still out on whether it beats Devstral.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Positive
sentdex, YouTube creator (Python and ML programming)
Programming with LLM Agents in 2025Video, YouTube
Uses OpenHands 0.23 with Claude 3.5 Sonnet (transcribed "CLA onic 3.5") and calls these tools massive amplifications of the author's output, worth paying for. Notes the download-all-files button lately does not work, so the author asks the agent to zip the workspace instead.
"…annoyed at everything is like 20 bucks a month um but for the most part uh all these things are like massive amplifications of my my actual output so I do think it's worth it but just because I don't I don't really want to…"
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
GILD's fact checks, which don't count as sources
Checked Oct 12, 2026.OpenHands' guidance rates bug fixes with reproduction steps, test additions, and changes that follow existing patterns as the best fit. It asks for large refactors and architectural changes to be split into phases. When to use OpenHands
Open them in the recordCounted for All practitioners.
Raised as a concern, 17
Mixed
thelodge-network, GitHub user filing an issue against OpenHands/OpenHands
docker_runtime hardcodes container --user <host uid:gid>, breaks under a rootless Docker daemonGitHub issue on OpenHands/OpenHands
Self-hosted on a rootless Docker daemon, OpenHands could not start conversation sandboxes: each exited with a permission error and the server returned 502. Tests showed the sandbox ran when the mounts were opened or the container ran as uid 0.
"The sandbox exits 1 with a `PermissionError: [Errno 13]` trying to stat `workspace/openhands_agent_server_config.json` inside the bind mount…"
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; structured test; counts toward Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
Mixed
rsync, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Pi 1.0Hacker News comment
Had decent success with OpenHands but disliked its Docker infrastructure and emoji-heavy output, and now uses the Pi agent exclusively.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Adoption and upkeep
Mixed
Manriqueemanuel, Medium
Building an Autonomous Coding Run with Ralphie, OpenHands, Ollama, and Vast.aiPersonal blog post, Medium
Ran headless OpenHands on a Vast.ai VM with Ollama serving a Qwen3-family coding model. The GUI looked fine when it was not, the first autonomous runs exposed fake progress, and progress controllers and driver scripts were needed before a final burst ended with 48 passing tests and a stable MVP.
Practitioner account, self-described; ran the rollout; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
Mixed
Smooth-Pipe6285, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
Running OpenHands in Docker as one agent under a local orchestrator, Smooth-Pipe6285 has the web UI working but cannot find the API endpoint to connect it over ACP.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; ran the rollout; counts toward Adoption and upkeep
Negative
nealhamiltonjr, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
Comment on: Why has no one been talking about Open Hands so far?Reddit comment
Both official installs on Debian 13, uv and Docker, hung on a spinning wheel because OpenHands could not connect to a sandbox. On the open issue, nealhamiltonjr saw no reply from the team.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Adoption and upkeep
Mixed
LavaTiger99, GitHub user
[Bug]: cannot use web interface from different machineGitHub issue
Deployed on a dedicated server, the web interface loads but no conversation starts, because the worker container tries to connect on localhost when it should use the server's address.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; ran the rollout; counts toward Adoption and upkeep
Mixed
iWedmak, GitHub user
[Bug]: openhands.app_server.errors.SandboxError: 500: Sandbox failed to start within 120sGitHub issue
On OpenHands 1.2 installed with the README Docker command, conversations fail with "Sandbox failed to start within 120s". It sometimes starts normally, and for some repos and branches it starts fine while others time out.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Mixed
morgaesis, GitHub user
[Bug]: Locally mounted folders are chowned to rootGitHub issue
Running locally with a mounted folder, each new conversation creates an unwanted git repository and gives the folder and every agent-created file to group root, so morgaesis runs chown by hand.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Operational control
Mixed
trycrmr, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
Comment on: Why has no one been talking about Open Hands so far?Reddit comment
OpenHands could not reach their LM Studio server until trycrmr loosened Docker and LM Studio networking settings on their private network.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Adoption and upkeep
Negative
_underlines_, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
Comment on: OpenHands + Devstral is utter crap as of May 2025 (24G VRAM)Reddit comment
Getting OpenHands to run with LM Studio on Windows 11 and WSL2 took a whole Saturday of Docker and network workarounds. The result was underwhelming next to GitHub Copilot agent mode or Aider.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Adoption and upkeep
Negative
foobarg, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
OpenHands + Devstral is utter crap as of May 2025 (24G VRAM)Reddit post
Running OpenHands offline with Devstral on a 24GB GPU, foobarg found the configuration broken and undocumented, objected to mounting the container socket, and saw Devstral fail almost every basic task.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
Negative
FullstackSensei, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
Comment on: Why has no one been talking about Open Hands so far?Reddit comment
FullstackSensei wanted to test Devstral in OpenHands but found it hard to run outside Docker or to set up with their own API. They gave up after about an hour and used Roo instead.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
Mixed
cuckfoders, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
Comment on: Why has no one been talking about Open Hands so far?Reddit comment
Getting OpenHands running on Windows with WSL took two pages of documentation and a long Docker command, and an attached existing project still showed a not-a-git-repository warning.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Adoption and upkeep
Positive
Srujan Reddy, srujanpakanati.com
OpenHands🤲: The Flawless Open-Source AI Coding CompanionPersonal blog post, srujanpakanati.com (Hashnode)
Finds OpenHands delightfully good with clear instructions and a free Gemini model, but self-hosting on Kubernetes took several attempts and needs a privileged pod with the Docker socket.
Practitioner account, self-described; ran the rollout; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
Negative
im3000, Reddit user in r/ChatGPTCoding
Your thoughts on OpenHands (formerly OpenDevin)?Reddit post
im3000 tried OpenHands on a recommendation and found the Docker install clunky and the tool unpolished, and asks whether anyone uses it daily.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Adoption and upkeep
Negative
juaps, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
Mac keeps rebooting with LM Studio / MLX during long OpenHands sessions - anyone found a real fix?Reddit post
Long OpenHands sessions on local Qwen and GLM models in LM Studio bring memory failures, model looping, broken tool calls, and even full reboots. The user juaps suspects LM Studio more than any one model.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, takes no position
Mixed
M. Chechulin, Senior Lead Software Developer at a mid-to-large company in Germany
OpenSource agentic coding systems - what can they deliver for 10$Personal blog post, Medium
Gave OpenHands, Cline and Goose US$10 each; OpenHands was the most stable (3 of 5, partial success) but overspent to US$14.97 and most often ignored instructions.
Practitioner account, self-described; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Cost predictability and limits, Adoption and upkeep
Discussed without concern, 4
Positive
incomingpain, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Ask HN: Are you running local LLMs? What are your key use cases?Hacker News comment
incomingpain calls Devstral with OpenHands their most reliable local coding setup, running a Q6 quant with 85,000 context in LM Studio on a 24 GB GPU.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability, Operational control
Mixed
b1uedust, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
Considering RTX 4000 Blackwell for Local Agentic AIReddit post
b1uedust runs OpenHands with LM Studio on a Mac mini and a 3080 Ti. Quantized 7B and 13B models held up on the Mac, larger ones were slow, and b1uedust is pricing a dedicated GPU.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Operational control
Positive
EternalSilverback, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
Comment on: OpenHands + Devstral is utter crap as of May 2025 (24G VRAM)Reddit comment
On their first run, OpenHands with Claude Sonnet 3.7 built a small WebGPU app with unit tests and served it for review for about US$0.44. Their attempt with a local model failed to start.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Cost predictability and limits
Positive
zackify, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: DevstralHacker News comment
Ran Mistral's Devstral locally in LM Studio with OpenHands and Cline and says it worked great in both, with about one minute of initial prompt processing on an M4 Max.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Operational control
GILD's fact checks, which don't count as sources
Checked Oct 12, 2026.Since OpenHands 1.0 the agent runs in a Docker, process, or remote sandbox through the Agent Server. Agent Canvas installs with npm or a single Docker command, and accounts of the legacy Docker runtime describe the earlier setup. Sandbox overview
Open them in the recordCounted for All practitioners.
Raised as a concern, 9
Mixed
M. Chechulin, Senior Lead Software Developer at a mid-to-large company in Germany
OpenSource agentic coding systems - what can they deliver for 10$Personal blog post, Medium
Gave OpenHands, Cline and Goose US$10 each; OpenHands was the most stable (3 of 5, partial success) but overspent to US$14.97 and most often ignored instructions.
Practitioner account, self-described; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Cost predictability and limits, Adoption and upkeep
Mixed
jacobson_engineering, Reddit user in r/ChatGPTCoding
Most value for money way to set a self coding AI server?Reddit post
Building web apps with OpenHands, jacobson_engineering finds it works well only on Claude and needs a budget of at least US$50 in API spend to run without problems.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Operational control, Cost predictability and limits
Mixed
knail1, GitHub user
Even a brand-new session with a simple command hits Anthropic's 20,000 input tokens per minute limit for their organization, so OpenHands stalls on rate-limit errors.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Mixed
Repulsive-Memory-298, Reddit user in r/ChatGPTCoding
Does anyone use Openhands agent?Reddit post
OpenHands had been solid for Repulsive-Memory-298 since November, but version 0.34 burned about US$20 of Anthropic tokens in five minutes on a small project.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability, Cost predictability and limits
Negative
m_kos, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Ask HN: What's your vibe coding setup, what does it cost and how do you like it?Hacker News comment
Built a personal RAG system over three weekends with OpenHands and Trae in Docker for about US$60; rated satisfaction around 10% and spent more time debugging than building.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Mixed
Daniel Manzke, Medium (works on an enterprise search product)
Burning Tokens with AI Coding AgentsPersonal blog post, Medium
Spent about US$200 in tokens building a prototype. Token use exploded late as files were regenerated and the codebase ballooned. Finds it great for prototyping and unready for complex products.
Practitioner account, self-described; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control, Cost predictability and limits, Adoption and upkeep
Mixed
dr_kiszonka, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Some critical issues with the SWE-bench datasetHacker News comment
Using the model under discussion with OpenHands to write a simple web crawler for a hobby RAG project, found it great but quite expensive at about US$8 an hour. In Trea it was pretty bad but free; the author asks, "Maybe it depends on how the agents use it?"
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Cost predictability and limits
Negative
yeldarb, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Show HN: NYCerebro, semantic search of NYC traffic cams (written by v0)Hacker News comment
yeldarb tried OpenHands in their own codebase a couple of months earlier and found it frustrating, expensive, and no faster than doing the task themselves.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Mixed
vwart, GitHub user filing an issue against OpenHands/OpenHands
Unable to connect to server is now happening everywhere, making the product unusableGitHub issue on OpenHands/OpenHands
On OpenHands Cloud, nearly every conversation left idle for about 20 minutes could no longer reach its server, and work not yet pushed was lost along with the tokens spent on it.
"Nearly every conversation reaches a state in which it is "unable to connect to server" forever. Mostly not having pushed anything, so all the work and tokens that were used are lost."
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Discussed without concern, 5
Mixed
Venku Buragadda, Medium
OpenHands: Write code without writing a single line of codePersonal blog post, Medium
Built an ecommerce web UI with OpenHands 0.26 and Claude for around US$5-$6, getting rate limited by Anthropic every time a command was sent. Things were slow, downloading the code from the UI never completed, and the author warns to push often because nothing stops OpenHands deleting files.
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
Positive
Rybens92, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
Comment on: Why has no one been talking about Open Hands so far?Reddit comment
Rybens92 calls OpenHands the best alternative to proprietary coding agents and runs it on a US$10 or US$20 Chutes.ai subscription to avoid paying per token.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; opinion; not counted, takes no position
Positive
EternalSilverback, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
Comment on: OpenHands + Devstral is utter crap as of May 2025 (24G VRAM)Reddit comment
On their first run, OpenHands with Claude Sonnet 3.7 built a small WebGPU app with unit tests and served it for review for about US$0.44. Their attempt with a local model failed to start.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Cost predictability and limits
No opinion stated
ByteDance Seed research team, authors of Multi-SWE-bench
Multi-SWE-bench: A Multilingual Benchmark for Issue ResolvingIndependent benchmark paper, arXiv
ByteDance adapted OpenHands to Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, Rust, C, and C++ and ran it against Agentless and SWE-agent on 1,632 issues. OpenHands had the highest resolve rate in five of the seven languages, and its model-driven workflow took more turns and cost more than fixed-workflow Agentless.
"Overall, MopenHands outperforms the others in most cases, achieving the highest resolved rate in five out of seven languages, while MSWE-agent wins twice and MagentLess wins once."
Practitioner account; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Mixed
Lior Strugach, Medium
OpenHands - Your Own AI employee or yet another GPT wrapper?Personal blog post, Medium
In a company trial OpenHands failed to build an API layer after thirty minutes, but wrote internal READMEs and test coverage well; best for routine, well-defined tasks.
Practitioner account, self-described; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Operational control
GILD's fact checks, which don't count as sources
Checked Oct 12, 2026.Spending controls depend on where OpenHands runs. A maximum budget per conversation stops a conversation at its limit, and Cloud organizations add monthly budgets with alerts at 80, 90, and 100 percent. A report of unexpected spend does not establish that spending controls are missing. Organization budgets
Open them in the recordCounted for All practitioners.
Mixed
gnovak, GitHub user
Resolver creates duplicate PR when model creates one independently via GitHub APIGitHub issue
With the GitHub resolver on claude-opus-4-5, the model opened its own pull request through the GitHub API with the token in its sandbox, and the resolver then opened a second one.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Negative
wunderwuzzi, Security researcher (blog author)
ZombAI Exploit with OpenHands: Prompt Injection To Remote Code ExecutionSecurity research blog post, Embrace The Red
A website prompt injection made OpenHands download and run malware joining a C2 server; the sandbox limits but does not remove exposure, and disclosure got slow vendor responses.
Practitioner account, self-described; structured test; counts toward Operational control
Negative
wunderwuzzi, Security researcher (blog author)
OpenHands and the Lethal Trifecta: How Prompt Injection Can Leak Access TokensSecurity research blog post, Embrace The Red
Shows a prompt injection that makes OpenHands render a Markdown image and leak the GITHUB_TOKEN from its container, bypassing the model's initial refusals.
Practitioner account, self-described; structured test; counts toward Operational control
Negative
foobarg, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
OpenHands + Devstral is utter crap as of May 2025 (24G VRAM)Reddit post
Running OpenHands offline with Devstral on a 24GB GPU, foobarg found the configuration broken and undocumented, objected to mounting the container socket, and saw Devstral fail almost every basic task.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
Positive
Srujan Reddy, srujanpakanati.com
OpenHands🤲: The Flawless Open-Source AI Coding CompanionPersonal blog post, srujanpakanati.com (Hashnode)
Finds OpenHands delightfully good with clear instructions and a free Gemini model, but self-hosting on Kubernetes took several attempts and needs a privileged pod with the Docker socket.
Practitioner account, self-described; ran the rollout; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
Positive
Cobus Greyling, YouTube creator
OpenHands is an open-source assistant designed to assist developers in software development tasks.Video, YouTube
Runs OpenHands locally, has it write and run a Hacker News bash script that it debugs on its own; likes local open-source use but flags the freedom it gets on the machine.
"Pro uh M2 Chip I think um you can see runs locally Port 3000 and um it's got integration to vs code over here um and I just asked the the coder um the the AI agent to please write a bash script which displays…"
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
Mixed
morgaesis, GitHub user
[Bug]: Locally mounted folders are chowned to rootGitHub issue
Running locally with a mounted folder, each new conversation creates an unwanted git repository and gives the folder and every agent-created file to group root, so morgaesis runs chown by hand.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Operational control
GILD's fact checks, which don't count as sources
Checked Oct 12, 2026.OpenHands' FAQ states that safety depends on the backend. The process sandbox runs with the host user's permissions, and broad mounts, privileged mode, host networking, or access to the Docker socket weaken container isolation. FAQs
Open them in the recordCounted for All practitioners.
Raised as a concern, 7
Mixed
iurdhkpouytewwdbjo-source, GitHub user
[Bug]: Missing required parameters for function 'str_replace_editor': {'security_risk'}GitHub issue
Asked to add an HTML page, the agent failed every file edit with a missing-parameter error on claude-sonnet-4; switching to qwen3-coder-plus cleared it after one error.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Mixed
tbiens, GitHub user
[Bug]: str_replace error when using qwen3 coder locally.GitHub issue
The OpenHands CLI works well for tbiens with Devstral; Qwen3 Coder works 80 to 90% of the time but sometimes fails file edits with a malformed tool call.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability
Mixed
matty-fortune, GitHub user
[Bug]: The agent (Devstral) frequently forgets that it's an agent and starts acting like a typical LLMGitHub issue
Running OpenHands on local Devstral, simple prompts such as building a React button component usually fail: the model creates no files and tells the user to create them.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Negative
foobarg, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
OpenHands + Devstral is utter crap as of May 2025 (24G VRAM)Reddit post
Running OpenHands offline with Devstral on a 24GB GPU, foobarg found the configuration broken and undocumented, objected to mounting the container socket, and saw Devstral fail almost every basic task.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
Mixed
bassgojoe, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
Comment on: OpenHands + Devstral is utter crap as of May 2025 (24G VRAM)Reddit comment
bassgojoe got decent results from OpenHands on qwen2.5-coder-32b, while Devstral was horrible in every agent bassgojoe tried.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, takes no position
Negative
morifo, Reddit user in r/LocalLLaMA
Does any local model come close to claude for use with OpenHands?Reddit post
With a 3090, says they have used "more or less every model I can fit onto the GPU" with Ollama for refactors, tests and documentation, and none was as good as Claude. OpenHands too was below par for simple tasks with local models, and absolutely terrible with GPT 4o.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Mixed
Daniel Manzke, Medium (works on an enterprise search product)
Burning Tokens with AI Coding AgentsPersonal blog post, Medium
Spent about US$200 in tokens building a prototype. Token use exploded late as files were regenerated and the codebase ballooned. Finds it great for prototyping and unready for complex products.
Practitioner account, self-described; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control, Cost predictability and limits, Adoption and upkeep
Discussed without concern, 1
Positive
Srujan Reddy, srujanpakanati.com
OpenHands🤲: The Flawless Open-Source AI Coding CompanionPersonal blog post, srujanpakanati.com (Hashnode)
Finds OpenHands delightfully good with clear instructions and a free Gemini model, but self-hosting on Kubernetes took several attempts and needs a privileged pod with the Docker socket.
Practitioner account, self-described; ran the rollout; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
GILD's fact checks, which don't count as sources
Checked Oct 12, 2026.OpenHands' model guidance states that open-weight and local models still vary widely in tool-use reliability. When responses slow down or arrive as malformed JSON, it advises a stronger model, a larger context window, or a frontier model. LLM overview and model recommendations
Open them in the recordStatements this group's sources agree on, then the ones close to agreement.
Close to agreement: each needs 16 supporting sources
Practitioners treat OpenHands as the open-source alternative to Devin and other closed autonomous agents.
9 supporting sourcesOpenHands performs best on well-scoped tasks with clear success criteria, such as tests, that it can check for itself.
7 supporting sourcesMicroagents, skills, AGENTS.md files, and setup scripts make OpenHands' results more reliable on a given codebase.
5 supporting sourcesQuestions the sources split on, with the count on each side.
Evidence remains mixed
Frontier hosted models, 11 sources
Some run OpenHands on Claude, GPT, or Gemini through a provider API for the strongest results.
Open-weight models, 16 sources
Others run it on open-weight models such as Devstral or Qwen, locally or on their own servers, for cost or control.
Evidence remains mixed
Hands-off agent, 5 sources
Some hand OpenHands whole tasks and review the result.
Interactive tools, 4 sources
Others prefer tools they steer step by step, such as Aider, Cline, Claude Code, or an IDE agent.
The three groups, then every practitioner by the context they work in, and how emphasis changes with scale.
Three groups drawn from the same sources. Choose a group to select whose experience counts. Within that group, each author counts once in the practitioner sentiment, with their latest view. Signals open on All practitioners. Leaders and teams have 3 accounts; GILD prints their sentiment from 20.
6 sources. These accounts focus on whether a team trial produced usable work, what made the agent finish its tasks, and the setup and cost a team has to own.
70 sources. These accounts focus on whether one conversation finishes, what it costs on the model the builder chose, and how OpenHands compares with tools they steer step by step.
76 sources. These accounts give the broadest read. They combine solo and team settings, which can reach different conclusions about OpenHands.
76 sources from practitioners, by the context they work in. Filled rows count for this group.
Emphasizes Whether a conversation finishes and what it costs on the chosen model
Emphasizes Whether a trial on company work beats doing it by hand
Emphasizes Setup scripts, repository rules, and CI around the agent
Emphasizes Where to self-host and which models to allow
What changes with scale. Almost every public account comes from one person running OpenHands on their own machine or account, and they judge it on setup, on whether a run completes, and on the model bill. The six multi-person accounts include a benchmark study and three technical leaders who chose OpenHands for company work, and none of them measures a team rollout, so a team decision needs its own pilot.
Where this group's sources were published.
Counted for All practitioners, from 76 sources. Change group
91 sources for this group, 15 of them documentation
Older evidence is retained when it still applies. Sources that depend on a changed version, runtime, or model stay in the history, marked Needs a recheck.
See sources by originWho each source is, how it knows, whether it still applies and what it counts toward.
Newest first, on its own page. Every count above opens its sources there.
Read all 91 sourcesAbout this read
A running review of what engineering teams report about OpenHands, from individual builders to engineering leaders. Each finding links to its sources, and each conflict shows both sides.
Counts cover only the sources GILD reviewed.
Choose a group to select whose experience counts. Within that group, each author counts once in the practitioner sentiment, with their latest view. GILD files each source in a group from how the account describes its author. A role or employer marked self-described is what the source states about themselves. Documentation checks facts for every group and never counts toward sentiment.
A source's date and whether it still applies are separate: a recent post can describe an old version, and an old one can still hold.
Flagged for a recheck, of the sources that take a side: leaders and teams 0 of 3, individual builders 7 of 49, all practitioners 7 of 52.
Each row opens its sources for the group you are reading.
| Finding | Engineering leaders and teams | Individual builders | All practitioners | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current readCurrent sentiment | 2 positive, 1 mixed, 0 negative | 19 positive, 18 mixed, 12 negative | 21 positive, 19 mixed, 12 negative | Sources |
| PraiseEnd-to-end execution | 3 of 3 positive (under the minimum) | 14 of 14 positive | 17 of 17 positive | Sources |
| PraiseModel choice | 0 of 0 positive (under the minimum) | 14 of 14 positive | 14 of 14 positive | Sources |
| PraiseOpen source & self-hosting | 2 of 2 positive (under the minimum) | 7 of 8 positive | 9 of 10 positive | Sources |
| PraiseAsync delegation | 2 of 2 positive (under the minimum) | 2 of 4 positive (under the minimum) | 4 of 6 positive | Sources |
| PraiseDeveloper experience | 0 of 0 positive (under the minimum) | 9 of 18 positive | 9 of 18 positive | Sources |
| PraiseStability | 0 of 0 positive (under the minimum) | 2 of 5 positive | 2 of 5 positive | Sources |
| ConcernUnpredictable task success | 1 of 1 raise it (under the minimum) | 17 of 22 raise it | 18 of 23 raise it | Sources |
| ConcernUsage and cost | 0 of 2 raise it (under the minimum) | 9 of 12 raise it | 9 of 14 raise it | Sources |
| ConcernSetup & runtime friction | 0 of 0 raise it (under the minimum) | 17 of 21 raise it | 17 of 21 raise it | Sources |
| ConcernDependence on the model | 0 of 0 raise it (under the minimum) | 7 of 8 raise it | 7 of 8 raise it | Sources |
| ConcernSecurity & access | 0 of 0 raise it (under the minimum) | 7 of 7 raise it | 7 of 7 raise it | Sources |
| ConcernNeeds close steering | 0 of 0 raise it (under the minimum) | 3 of 4 raise it (under the minimum) | 3 of 4 raise it (under the minimum) | Sources |
| ConsensusStrongest on scoped, verifiable tasks | 1 supporting (under the minimum) | 6 supporting (below threshold) | 7 supporting (below threshold) | Sources |
| ConsensusThe open alternative to closed agents | 1 supporting (under the minimum) | 8 supporting (below threshold) | 9 supporting (below threshold) | Sources |
| ConsensusWritten repository context improves results | 0 supporting (under the minimum) | 5 supporting (below threshold) | 5 supporting (below threshold) | Sources |
| ConsensusThe model is the main lever | 0 supporting (under the minimum) | 2 supporting (under the minimum) | 2 supporting (under the minimum) | Sources |
| DisagreementShould teams run OpenHands on frontier hosted models, or on open-weight models they serve themselves? | Frontier hosted models 0, Open-weight models 0 (under the minimum) | Frontier hosted models 11, Open-weight models 16 | Frontier hosted models 11, Open-weight models 16 | Sources |
| DisagreementShould OpenHands work as a hands-off agent, or do engineers get more from an interactive tool for the same work? | Hands-off agent 2, Interactive tools 0 (under the minimum) | Hands-off agent 3, Interactive tools 4 | Hands-off agent 5, Interactive tools 4 | Sources |
| DisagreementOnce review and rework are counted, does OpenHands reduce total engineering time? | Net time saved 0, Absorbed by rework 0 (under the minimum) | Net time saved 2, Absorbed by rework 2 (under the minimum) | Net time saved 2, Absorbed by rework 2 (under the minimum) | Sources |
| DisagreementHow much work should OpenHands take on before a human checkpoint? | Broader delegation 0, Tighter steering 1 (under the minimum) | Broader delegation 2, Tighter steering 1 (under the minimum) | Broader delegation 2, Tighter steering 2 (under the minimum) | Sources |
| Current readEvidence mix | 21 sources | 85 sources | 91 sources | Sources |
GILD's checks of claims against official documentation, kept apart from the source counts.
