OpenHands vs SWE-agent
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
OpenHands
MIT-licensed coding agents and automations: local, cloud or self-hoste...
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SWE-agent
Princeton and Stanford's research coding agent, now superseded by mini...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.8 / 10 | 7 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | Open-source app runs locally free. OpenHands Cloud Individual is free: 1 user, 10 conversations a day, your own key or at-cost models | Free and open source (MIT); self-host and pay your own LLM API costs |
| Paid from | Enterprise: custom pricing (contact sales) | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2024 | 2024 |
| Maker | All Hands AI | — |
| Verdict | OpenHands runs a sandboxed agent that reads repos, edits and runs code and opens pull requests, and in 2026 it grew into a platform: Agent Canvas schedules automations from GitHub, Slack, Jira or Linear and can drive thi... |
SWE-agent matters for what it proved: that a purpose-built interface between a language model and a codebase works better than raw shell access. It is MIT-licensed, configured through one YAML file and runs in a Docker s... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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