OpenAI Codex CLI vs OpenHands

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	OpenAI Codex CLI OpenAI's official terminal coding agent; adopts the SKILL.md standard.	OpenHands Open-source, model-agnostic platform for running autonomous software engineering agents, formerly known as OpenDevin.
Category	harness	harness
Vendor type	open source	hybrid
Pricing	freemium	freemium
Strengths	+ Adopts cross-vendor SKILL.md standard + Open source + Native OpenAI Responses API integration	+ 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	− Smaller plugin ecosystem than Claude Code	− Heavier setup (Docker/sandbox runtime) than editor-extension agents − Autonomous runs can consume significant tokens without close supervision
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