OpenCode vs OpenHands

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	OpenCode Open-source AI coding agent for the terminal, IDE, and desktop, maintained by Anomaly.	OpenHands Open-source, model-agnostic platform for running autonomous software engineering agents, formerly known as OpenDevin.
Category	harness	harness
Vendor type	hybrid	hybrid
Pricing	freemium	freemium
Strengths	+ MIT-licensed and developed fully in the open with a large contributor base + Provider-agnostic with 75+ LLM providers, local models, and BYOK support + Privacy-first design that does not store code or context data server-side + Runs in terminal, IDE, and desktop with multi-session support	+ 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	− Rapid release cadence can bring breaking changes between versions − Result quality varies with whichever provider and model the user configures	− Heavier setup (Docker/sandbox runtime) than editor-extension agents − Autonomous runs can consume significant tokens without close supervision
Used in stacks	0	0