OpenHands vs Superagent (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, OpenHands grades higher than Superagent: 2.4 against 2.2 out of 4.0.
Checked Nov 12, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 12, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA
OpenHands grades higher on value for money. Superagent grades higher on ease of use. They get the same grade on the free plan, features and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
OpenHands
Open-source platform for AI coding agents and automations
Superagent
Security scanning and guardrails for code and AI agents
Which one is for you
Pick OpenHands if
- Fits if you can self-host and want coding agents on your own machine
- Makes sense if you already pay an LLM provider and want to use that key
Look elsewhere if
- Not for you if you want a hosted service, as the pricing page lists no vendor-hosted plan
- Tight if you grow, since Teams is capped at 10 users and 5,000 sessions a month
- Watch out: every plan needs your own LLM key and that cost is paid separately
- Watch out: SSO and roles are not in the free version
Pick Superagent if
- Fits if you maintain open-source code on public repositories
- Works for teams shipping AI-written code that want pull requests scanned
Look elsewhere if
- Pricey if you go past free: Starter is $499 a month for 500 credits
- Tight if your code is private: 100 credits a month, and a red-team report costs 500
- Skip it if you want a general agent, as the site describes a security tool
- Watch out: annual billing gives 20% more credits, and the page says nothing about a price change
How we grade them
| 2.4GPAOpenHandsFair | 2.2GPASuperagentFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | BAgent Canvas is free (MIT) on your own machine, but the LLM bill is yours. Teams is $500 a month for 10 users, $50 a seat past that. | DStarter is $499 a month, far past the category's $150 dearest-tenth start, and a single red-team report uses all 500 of its credits. |
| Free plan and trial | BA free open-source program you can run on a laptop, with no caps, but with your own LLM key and one shared identity. | BPublic repositories are free with no credit limit, and the free plan gives 100 credits a month for private ones. One person could live on that. |
| Features | CBring-your-own-agent canvas, event-driven automations and team controls. The listing's gaps: no roles or SSO on the free version and no vendor-hosted plan. | CPR scanning, red teaming, dependency checks and guardrails, but the site now describes a security product, so it fits the agents category only loosely. |
| Ease of use | DNo store rating, and the route is to self-host it on a laptop or shared VM. | CNo rating on record. You connect repositories and coding agents before any result appears. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb, with GitHub, Slack, Jira, Linear and Notion listed, plus an SDK. | BWeb product with API and MCP, linked to GitHub, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Dependabot and Renovate. No desktop or phone app. |
| Best for | running coding agents on your own machine for free | security checks for AI-written code |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: OpenHands and Superagent. How we grade
Price against what you get
OpenHands starts at $500 a month and scores 2.0 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Superagent starts at $499 a month and scores 2.3.
Superagent scores higher and starts $1 a month lower. Of the other AI agents on the chart, 79 score higher than OpenHands for less, and 37 score higher than Superagent for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- OpenHands is open source and self-hostable, according to its own site.
- OpenHands also covers workflow automation.
- Superagent also covers reports.
At a glance
| OpenHands | Superagent | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | $500 per month for up to 10 users | $499 per month for 500 credits |
| Free plan | Agent Canvas is free and open source (MIT) to self-host on a laptop or shared VM, with your own LLM key and a single shared identity. | Unlimited use on public repositories, plus a free plan with 100 private-repository credits per month. |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | OpenHands | Superagent Technologies Inc. |
| Price read from | openhands.dev | superagent.sh |
| Checked | Nov 12, 2026 | Nov 13, 2026 |
Worth knowing
OpenHands
- You pay your LLM provider separately: every plan is bring-your-own-key.
- Teams is capped at 10 users (+$50 a month per seat) and 5,000 sessions a month.
- The free Agent Canvas has a single shared identity, with no user roles or SSO.
- Teams and Enterprise are self-hosted; the pricing page lists no vendor-hosted plan.
Superagent
- Paid plans start at $499 per month; the first step below that is the free plan's 100 private credits.
- A single red teaming report costs 500 credits, which is the whole Starter allowance.
- The site now describes a security product, not a general-purpose AI agent, so it fits the agents category only loosely.
- Whether annual billing changes the price or only the credits is not spelled out beyond 20% more credits on annual paid plans.
Key features
OpenHands
- Agent Canvas
- A workspace for chatting with coding agents, customizing them and setting automations, run locally with your own LLM key.
- Bring your own agent
- Use third-party agents such as Claude and Codex alongside OpenHands, with MCP servers and secrets on every plan.
- Event-driven automations
- Start work from GitHub, Slack, Jira, Linear, schedules or other integrations, such as PR review or CI-failure fixes.
- Team controls
- Teams adds user identity and RBAC, SSO/SAML, budgeting and usage controls, and built-in OAuth integrations.
- SDK and control plane
- The product menu lists an SDK and an Agent Control Plane for building and governing agents across an organization.
Superagent
- PR scanning
- Checks code changes, dependencies and contributors before a pull request is merged. Costs 1 credit per scan.
- Red teaming
- Investigates applications, code, agents and packages for exploitable weaknesses and produces a report, at 500 credits per report.
- Dependency validation
- Tests which dependency vulnerabilities affect an application and verifies fixes on Dependabot and Renovate pull requests. 5 credits per private investigation; public ones are free.
- Context and runtime guardrails
- Context guardrails screen external content before an agent reads or installs it; runtime guardrails block supported risky agent actions using rules evaluated on each host.
- Security-One-27B model
- A security decision model that scores security events and returns probabilities an application can use to route decisions.
- API and MCP access
- Every plan includes API and MCP access, and a security graph in the dashboard lets agents share evidence and review decisions through MCP.
Plans
OpenHands
Agent Canvas$0
Open source (MIT), self-hosted on your laptop or a shared VM; bring your own LLM key and agent.
Teams$500
per month for up to 10 users
Self-hosted, multi-user RBAC, SSO/SAML, budgeting, built-in integrations; +$50 a month per extra seat.
EnterpriseCustom
Unlimited seats and organizations, enterprise agreement, SLA-based support and a customer success manager.
Superagent
Free$0
100 credits a month for private repositories; public repositories are free without a credit limit.
Starter$499
per month for 500 credits, billed monthly
500 credits a month. Annual billing gives 20% more credits.
Growth$1,499
per month for 2,000 credits, billed monthly
2,000 credits a month for teams running security throughout development.
Scale$3,999
per month and up, for 6,000 credits
Starts at 6,000 credits a month for high-volume security programs.
Ways to pay less
OpenHands
- Other savings
30-day trial of Teams
The Teams plan is listed with a 30-day trial that can be started from the pricing page.
Superagent
- Other savings
Free for open source
Public repositories get unlimited usage across the whole Superagent suite.
- Annual discount
20% more credits on annual plans
Annual paid plans include 20% more credits and are billed upfront.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, OpenHands or Superagent?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Superagent is cheaper to start with: $499 a month, against $500 a month for OpenHands. OpenHands starts at $500 per month for up to 10 users, and Superagent starts at $499 per month for 500 credits.
Which has a free plan, OpenHands or Superagent?
As of Nov 13, 2026, both OpenHands and Superagent have a free plan.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.