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20 OpenHands alternatives

OpenHands — the leading open-source coding agent platform, self-hostable or run in the cloud. 20 apps do similar work, most sharing Open Source, Coding Agent and Developers, ranked by how much they have in common with OpenHands.

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  1. Secure cloud sandboxes where AI agents can run untrusted code safely, starting in milliseconds.

    Also: Developers, Open Source, Sandbox, Self-Hosted

  2. Cloudflare

    Open-source AI workspace you deploy into your own Cloudflare account: agent chat wired to company context, sandboxed app building, and policy guardrails.

    Also: Open Source, Sandbox, Self-Hosted

  3. Run agent evals and private benchmarks in sandboxed cloud environments — compare Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Copilot on the same real tasks.

    Also: Coding Agent, Developers, Sandbox

  4. Bruin Data Limited

    Run Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode in the cloud from a single HTTP call — no SDK, no daemon, no infrastructure on your side.

    Also: Coding Agent, Developers, Sandbox

  5. Roo Code

    Self-hostable cloud coding agent from the Roo Code team — investigates repos, verifies its own work and opens pull requests, driven from Slack, Teams, Discord or Telegram rather than an IDE.

    Also: Coding Agent, Open Source, Self-Hosted

  6. Aisle Technologies, Inc.

    An open-source layer that lets your customers describe a feature and get a working micro-app inside your product — sandboxed to their own permissions.

    Also: Developers, Open Source, Sandbox

  7. An open-source coding agent for VS Code and JetBrains that plans before it edits and asks before it acts.

    Also: Coding Agent, Developers, Open Source

  8. Agentic AI Foundation

    Open-source AI agent from the Agentic AI Foundation — a native desktop app, CLI and API that runs tasks locally with 70+ MCP extensions.

    Also: Coding Agent, Developers, Open Source

  9. Mario Zechner

    Minimal, MIT-licensed terminal coding agent that adapts to your workflow via TypeScript extensions.

    Also: Coding Agent, Developers, Open Source

  10. Vercel Labs

    Vercel Labs' tiny open-source coding agent: a ~6MB Zig binary that cold-starts in microseconds and embeds anywhere.

    Also: Coding Agent, Developers, Open Source

  11. An open-source proxy that sits between your coding agent and the model, compressing tool schemas, file reads and stale history to cut token bills.

    Also: Coding Agent, Developers, Open Source

  12. fizzy718

    Free, open-source macOS menu bar app that shows live status for every parallel Codex task, so you can see which agent needs you without reopening Codex.

    Also: Coding Agent, Developers, Open Source

  13. Zekun Wang

    Open-source, repo-native project memory for coding agents, stored as plain Markdown.

    Also: Coding Agent, Developers, Open Source

  14. SST

    An open-source terminal coding agent that works with any model and shares sessions across devices.

    Also: Coding Agent, Developers, Open Source

  15. Julian Storer

    Open-source GUI coding agent whose sessions are branching, resumable documents instead of a linear chat transcript.

    Also: Coding Agent, Developers, Open Source

  16. Cloud coding agents that work in isolated sandboxes, run your tests, preview the app in a browser and open a pull request you can review like any other.

    Also: Coding Agent, Sandbox

  17. Microsoft

    Microsoft's open-source, policy-driven sandbox SDK for running agents, model-generated code, tools and plugins with only the files and network access you grant.

    Also: Open Source, Sandbox

  18. Osaurus, Inc.

    Native macOS harness for AI agents — any model, persistent memory, sandboxed execution and cryptographic identity, fully offline and open source.

    Also: Open Source, Sandbox

  19. Cua AI, Inc.

    Open-source computer-use infrastructure: a desktop driver, cloud desktop fleets, local macOS VMs and a benchmark for agents that click.

    Also: Open Source, Sandbox

  20. Open-source, sandboxed AI agents for every employee, fronted by a gateway that injects scoped credentials so the agent never holds a password.

    Also: Open Source, Sandbox