Devin vs OpenHands

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	Devin Cognition's autonomous cloud software engineer that plans, codes, tests, and opens pull requests on its own.	OpenHands Open-source, model-agnostic platform for running autonomous software engineering agents, formerly known as OpenDevin.
Category	harness	harness
Vendor type	commercial	hybrid
Pricing	freemium	freemium
Strengths	+ Fully autonomous cloud sessions that run tasks end to end without local setup + Access to multiple frontier model families plus Cognition's own SWE models + Quota-based plans scale from a free tier to high-usage Max and Teams tiers	+ 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	− Works best on well-scoped tasks; practitioners report mixed results on ambiguous or large refactors − Quota allowances can deplete quickly on long autonomous runs, pushing users to API-priced top-ups − Closed source with less interactive steering than pair-programming style CLI agents	− Heavier setup (Docker/sandbox runtime) than editor-extension agents − Autonomous runs can consume significant tokens without close supervision
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