Claude Code vs OpenHands

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	Claude Code Anthropic's official agentic CLI; plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, subagents.	OpenHands Open-source, model-agnostic platform for running autonomous software engineering agents, formerly known as OpenDevin.
Category	harness	harness
Vendor type	commercial	hybrid
Pricing	subscription	freemium
Strengths	+ Mature primitives (skills, hooks, plugins, MCP, subagents) + Official Anthropic-supported harness + Strong ecosystem of community plugins/marketplaces	+ 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	− Terminal-first UX may not fit non-engineer users	− Heavier setup (Docker/sandbox runtime) than editor-extension agents − Autonomous runs can consume significant tokens without close supervision
Used in stacks	4	0