OpenHands vs Open Interpreter vs SWE-agent vs Factory AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
OpenHands
Open-source coding agent: self-host free or run in OpenHands Cloud
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Open Interpreter
Open-source code agent now expanding into a desktop app
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SWE-agent
Princeton's research coding agent — now points users to mini-swe-agent
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.8 / 10 | 6.6 / 10 | 7 / 10 | 7.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source | Open Source | Enterprise |
| Free tier | — | — | — | — |
| Paid from | — | — | — | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | — | — | — | — |
| Founded | 2024 | 2023 | 2024 | — |
| Maker | — | — | — | — |
| Verdict | Reading a repo, writing and running code, executing shell commands, browsing the web to close out a dev task end to end — that's the sandboxed loop this open-source agent runs, and it does so in the open: MIT-licensed, m... |
The product behind this entry has moved twice since it built its reputation. The original Python CLI — the thing that earned 50,000+ GitHub stars letting an LLM write and run Python, shell, and AppleScript on your machin... |
SWE-agent matters for what it proved: that a purpose-built interface between an LLM and a codebase (their Agent-Computer Interface concept) beats bolting a model onto raw shell access. It's MIT-licensed, well-documented,... |
Factory's Droid earned its benchmark bragging rights: it hit 58.75% on Terminal-Bench, beating Claude Code (43.2% with Opus) and Codex CLI (42.8% with GPT-5) on the same class of underlying models — Factory's own writeup... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.