# OpenHands review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Open-source platform for AI coding agents and automations Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. OpenHands is an open platform for agentic software development. Its free, MIT-licensed Agent Canvas runs on your own machine with your own LLM key and any agent, while a Teams plan adds multi-user identity, built-in integrations and budgeting controls. Automations can start from GitHub, Slack, Jira, Linear or a schedule. - **Category:** AI Agents - **Made by:** OpenHands - **Website:** https://www.openhands.dev - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want a hosted service, as the pricing page lists no vendor-hosted plan. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, OpenHands has a free plan, and paid plans start at $500 per month for up to 10 users. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **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. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | 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. | | Enterprise | Custom | Unlimited seats and organizations, enterprise agreement, SLA-based support and a customer success manager. | Read from https://www.openhands.dev/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with OpenHands before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **30-day trial of Teams** (Other savings): The Teams plan is listed with a 30-day trial that can be started from the pricing page. Source: https://www.openhands.dev/pricing ## Key features - **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. ## Good for - Developers who want a free, self-hosted coding agent with their own keys - Engineering teams automating PR review, triage and CI fixes - Organizations that need agents governed in their own environment ## Worth knowing - 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. OpenHands is an open-source platform for coding agents, free to self-host on a laptop with your own LLM key. Teams is $500 a month for up to 10 users, everything is self-hosted, and the free version has one shared identity and no roles. - **Value for money: B.** Agent 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. - **Free plan and trial: B.** A free open-source program you can run on a laptop, with no caps, but with your own LLM key and one shared identity. - **Features: C.** Bring-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. - **Ease of use: D.** No store rating, and the route is to self-host it on a laptop or shared VM. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with GitHub, Slack, Jira, Linear and Notion listed, plus an SDK. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from OpenHands's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among AI agents - OpenHands's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 61 of the 101 other AI agents we grade, and level with 8. - It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 82 of 101) and worst on ease of use (D, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $500 a month, against a middle price of $22.13 for the category: 65 of the 65 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 57 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-agents ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace OpenHands you would be making an AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $6,000 a year. OpenHands is open source, so there is a third way: take its code and run it yourself. - You could not: An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: single sign-on. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with GitHub, Slack, Jira, Linear, Notion, Claude, Codex **Tags:** AI agents, Open source, Self-hostable, Workflow automation ## Alternatives - [Devin](https://toolgpa.com/tools/devin): Autonomous software engineer that runs in the cloud or locally. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/devin-vs-openhands) - [Factory](https://toolgpa.com/tools/factory): Coding agents called Droids for desktop, terminal and web. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/factory-vs-openhands) - [Jules](https://toolgpa.com/tools/jules): Google's asynchronous coding agent that opens pull requests. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/jules-vs-openhands) - [Amp](https://toolgpa.com/tools/amp): Coding agent that runs in cloud machines it calls orbs. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/amp-vs-openhands) - [goose](https://toolgpa.com/tools/goose): Open-source AI agent with a desktop app, CLI and API. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/goose-vs-openhands) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.openhands.dev/pricing - https://www.openhands.dev Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/openhands Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).