OpenHands

Los Angeles, California, USA · ≈34 employees · openhands.dev

OpenHands is an open-source platform based in Boston, MA, founded in 2024. It focuses on building and running autonomous AI coding agents that perform real engineering tasks, such as writing code and managing pull requests. The platform is designed to empower developers by providing powerful coding agents for free, ensuring flexibility, control, and security in enterprise-scale software development. The core technology includes a secure, containerized sandbox runtime, allowing agents to operate safely and autonomously. OpenHands supports scaling from individual agents to thousands across organizations and has gained significant traction, with over 60,000 GitHub stars. The company has raised $23.8 million in funding and operates with a hybrid model, fostering collaboration between academia and industry. Its offerings include a comprehensive platform, a software development kit (SDK), a command-line interface (CLI), and APIs for modular automation, catering to software engineers, enterprise teams, and the open-source community.