Amp vs OpenHands

Pick two tools from the same category to compare side-by-side.

	Amp Frontier coding agent originally built at Sourcegraph, now developed by the independent Amp Frontier Corporation.	OpenHands Open-source, model-agnostic platform for running autonomous software engineering agents, formerly known as OpenDevin.
Category	harness	harness
Vendor type	commercial	hybrid
Pricing	usage	freemium
Strengths	+ Multi-surface workflow across CLI, editor plugins, web, and mobile remote control + Pay-as-you-go pricing with no markup for individual users + Extensible via plugins and MCP servers + Independent, self-described profitable company focused solely on the agent	+ MIT-licensed core with 75+ LLM provider support + Multiple interfaces: SDK, CLI, GUI, cloud, and Kubernetes-based enterprise + Sandboxed (Docker) execution for autonomous multi-step tasks + Strong research lineage and large contributor community (~77k stars)
Tradeoffs	− Closed source, unlike terminal-agent alternatives such as OpenCode or Aider − Opinionated model selection managed by Amp rather than freely user-configured − Fast-changing product and branding (recently consolidated Amp Neo back into Amp)	− Heavier setup (Docker/sandbox runtime) than editor-extension agents − Autonomous runs can consume significant tokens without close supervision
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