OpenHands
The self-hosted developer control center for coding agents
An open-source agent platform that runs OpenHands or other ACP-compatible agents, including Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini, across local, remote, and cloud backends. It is free to run locally or in its cloud with your own key.Editorial
openhands.dev
openhands.dev/pricing: Open Source "Free"; SaaS Individual "Free — Bring your own key or use our providers at-cost".
https://www.openhands.dev/pricing ↗openhands.dev
openhands.dev/pricing: "Run locally, in our cloud, or self-host"; Open Source includes "Web-based GUI, Terminal UI, and CLI".
https://www.openhands.dev/pricing ↗openhands.dev
openhands.dev/pricing, Enterprise: "Enterprise SAML / SSO".
https://www.openhands.dev/pricing ↗openhands.dev
openhands.dev/pricing: "BYOK or use OpenHands models at-cost"; Enterprise "Custom pricing".
https://www.openhands.dev/pricing ↗Pricing
Full pricing & history →| Plan | Price | Billing | Receipt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual (cloud) | $0/mo | Monthly | openhands.devObservedHigh confidenceVerified 2 Oct 2026 OpenHands — official pricing page openhands.dev/pricing: SaaS Individual "Free". https://www.openhands.dev/pricing ↗ |
History starts here. These prices were first verified on 2 Oct 2026. Re-checking a price that hasn’t moved only refreshes its date; a different price is logged as a change and charted here.
5 logged changes over 414 days, verified 6 days ago.
- 1 verified change · 30d
- 2 active days · 90d
- 2 kinds of change: releases, availability & platforms
- Latest change 24 days ago
- Recent active days · weight 70
- 28.7 / 70
- Kinds of change · weight 30
- 9.4 / 30
- 30 Oct 202620
- 31 Oct 202619
- 1 Nov 202642
- 2 Nov 202641
- 3 Nov 202640
- 4 Nov 202640
- 5 Nov 202639
- 6 Nov 202638
Recorded daily since 11 Oct 2026; earlier values are never reconstructed.
- Platform
OpenHands agents can run on DigitalOcean from Agent Canvas
With OpenHands 1.27.0, developers can create and manage DigitalOcean-hosted agents in isolated microVM sandboxes directly from Agent Canvas.
openhands.dev
ObservedHigh confidencePublished 13 Oct 2026OpenHands — bloghttps://www.openhands.dev/blog/run-digitalocean-managed-agents-with-openhands ↗ - Release
OpenHands 1.23 ships a universal macOS desktop build
The desktop app ships as a universal macOS DMG with per-architecture bundled runtimes.
github.com
ObservedHigh confidencePublished 23 Sept 2026OpenHands — GitHub releaseshttps://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/releases/tag/v1.23.0 ↗
- Recent changes
- 1 verified change in the last 30 days · 0 in 7 · 2 in 90. Latest 13 Oct 2026 (24 days ago).
- 7d (evidence for recent changes)30d (evidence for recent changes)90d (evidence for recent changes)Latest (evidence for recent changes)
- vs segment · 30d
- The same as the Background agents median of 1 per tool.
- OpenHands (evidence for vs segment · 30d)Background agents (evidence for vs segment · 30d)
- List price
- No list-price movement observed across 1 verified plan.
- Pricing history (evidence for list price)
- Platform
OpenHands agents can run on DigitalOcean from Agent Canvas
With OpenHands 1.27.0, developers can create and manage DigitalOcean-hosted agents in isolated microVM sandboxes directly from Agent Canvas.
openhands.dev
ObservedHigh confidencePublished 13 Oct 2026OpenHands — bloghttps://www.openhands.dev/blog/run-digitalocean-managed-agents-with-openhands ↗ - Release
OpenHands 1.23 ships a universal macOS desktop build
The desktop app ships as a universal macOS DMG with per-architecture bundled runtimes.
github.com
ObservedHigh confidencePublished 23 Sept 2026OpenHands — GitHub releaseshttps://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/releases/tag/v1.23.0 ↗ - Release
OpenHands 1.0.0 ships on the new software-agent-sdk
OpenHands releases version 1.0.0, rebuilt on its new software-agent-sdk, and moves the OpenHands CLI to its own repository.
github.com
ObservedHigh confidencePublished 16 Dec 2025OpenHands — GitHub releaseshttps://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/releases/tag/1.0.0 ↗ - Plans
OpenHands Cloud adds a free bring-your-own-LLM tier
OpenHands opens bring-your-own-key to all Cloud users through a free BYOK tier limited to one user, with daily and parallel conversation limits.
openhands.dev
ObservedHigh confidencePublished 4 Nov 2025OpenHands — bloghttps://www.openhands.dev/blog/bring-your-own-llm-is-now-available-to-all-openhands-cloud-users ↗ - Pricing
OpenHands Cloud adds a $20/month subscription and drops model markup
OpenHands Cloud introduces a $20 per month subscription that unlocks model choice at API cost without markup and bring-your-own-key; previously it charged 2x API costs for Claude Sonnet.
openhands.dev
ObservedHigh confidencePublished 18 Sept 2025OpenHands — bloghttps://www.openhands.dev/blog/all-new-openhands-cloud-more-model-choice-lower-prices-slicker-design ↗
Verification log2 days with observations · 10 fact and 1 price observations
- 31 Oct 20263 facts verified
- 2 Oct 20267 facts verified · 1 price observed
A verification re-reads a first-party page. It refreshes freshness and is listed here; only a dated, sourced event becomes a change.
Evidence
7/9 facts verified · 9 sourcesFacts ledger
openhands.dev
openhands.dev/pricing: "Run locally, in our cloud, or self-host"; Open Source includes "Web-based GUI, Terminal UI, and CLI".
https://www.openhands.dev/pricing ↗openhands.dev
openhands.dev/pricing: "BYOK or use OpenHands models at-cost"; Enterprise "Custom pricing".
https://www.openhands.dev/pricing ↗openhands.dev
openhands.dev/pricing: Open Source "Free"; SaaS Individual "Free — Bring your own key or use our providers at-cost".
https://www.openhands.dev/pricing ↗openhands.dev
openhands.dev/pricing, Enterprise: "Enterprise SAML / SSO".
https://www.openhands.dev/pricing ↗openhands.dev
openhands.dev/pricing, Enterprise: "SaaS or Self-hosted in your VPC", "Enterprise SAML / SSO", "Priority support & shared Slack channel".
https://www.openhands.dev/pricing ↗docs.openhands.dev
OpenHands documentation, linked from the repository README.
https://docs.openhands.dev ↗github.com
OpenHands release notes are published as GitHub releases.
https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/releases ↗openhands.dev
openhands.dev/pricing, Agent Canvas (Free): "Open source (MIT)". LICENSE: "The MIT License (MIT) / Copyright © 2025 OpenHands contributors".
https://www.openhands.dev/pricing ↗openhands.dev
openhands.dev/pricing: Agent Canvas "Open source and free to self-host." / "Runs on your laptop or shared VM"; Teams "Self-hosted"; Enterprise "Self-hosted".
https://www.openhands.dev/pricing ↗github.com
OpenHands' public repository.
https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands ↗Sources · first-party pages read for this record
| Source | Type | Backs |
|---|---|---|
| OpenHands — official pricing pageopenhands.dev/pricing | official site | 6 |
| OpenHands — GitHub releasesgithub.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/releases | github | 2 |
| OpenHands — official pricing pageopenhands.dev/pricing | official site | 2 |
| OpenHands — blogopenhands.dev/blog/run-digitalocean-managed-agents-with-openhands | official site | 1 |
| OpenHands — blogopenhands.dev/blog/bring-your-own-llm-is-now-available-to-all-openhands-cloud-users | official site | 1 |
| OpenHands — blogopenhands.dev/blog/all-new-openhands-cloud-more-model-choice-lower-prices-slicker-design | official site | 1 |
| OpenHands — GitHub releasesgithub.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/releases/tag/1.0.0 | github | 1 |
| OpenHands — official documentationdocs.openhands.dev | official docs | 1 |
| OpenHands — official repositorygithub.com/OpenHands/OpenHands | github | 1 |
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