# OpenHands

> OpenHands, built by All Hands AI, is an open-source, model-agnostic platform for building and running AI coding agents that can complete entire software engineering tasks - from fixing bugs and upgrading dependencies to large-scale refactors and pull-request reviews. Started in 2024 as the open-source project OpenDevin, it has grown to 65,000+ GitHub stars and 3M+ downloads, spanning a Python SDK, CLI, local GUI, and OpenHands Cloud. The company raised an $18.8M Series A led by Madrona in November 2025 to bring secure, transparent, self-hostable coding agents to enterprises.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- **Founders:** Robert Brennan (Co-Founder & CEO), Graham Neubig (Co-Founder & Chief Scientist), Xingyao Wang (Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer)
- **Team size:** ~36 employees
- **Products:** OpenHands (open source), OpenHands Cloud, OpenHands CLI & Local GUI, OpenHands Software Agent SDK, Enterprise Edition
- **Notable:** 65,000+ GitHub stars and 7,000+ forks, making it one of the most popular open-source AI agent projects, 3M+ downloads and 500+ contributors, Top ranks on SWE-bench and other software-engineering benchmarks

## Products & services

- **OpenHands (open source)** — Open-source autonomous coding agent that solves software development tasks end-to-end - writing code, running commands, browsing the web, and interacting with tools inside a sandboxed environment. Formerly OpenDevin.
- **OpenHands Cloud** — Hosted, model-agnostic cloud platform for running coding agents at scale, with integrations for GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Slack, and Jira.
- **OpenHands CLI & Local GUI** — Command-line and local graphical interfaces for running agents on a developer's own machine, prioritizing privacy and control.
- **OpenHands Software Agent SDK** — A composable, extensible Python SDK for building and running production coding agents.
- **Enterprise Edition** — Source-available enterprise deployment with Docker sandbox isolation, role-based access controls, and audit trails for secure, self-hosted use.

## Achievements

- 65,000+ GitHub stars and 7,000+ forks, making it one of the most popular open-source AI agent projects
- 3M+ downloads and 500+ contributors
- Top ranks on SWE-bench and other software-engineering benchmarks
- Published research paper 'OpenHands: An Open Platform for AI Software Developers as Generalist Agents' (arXiv:2407.16741)
- Adopted by engineers at AMD, Apple, Google, Amazon, NVIDIA, Netflix, TikTok, Mastercard and VMware
- Grew from a single GitHub text file to a Series A company in roughly 18 months

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — Raised $18.8M Series A led by Madrona to bring open-source cloud coding agents to enterprises.
- **2025-11** — Published the OpenHands Software Agent SDK paper describing a composable foundation for production agents.
- **2025** — Announced AMD collaboration integrating Lemonade Server for local coding agents on Ryzen AI PCs.
- **2025-03** — Marked one year of OpenHands, crossing 60K+ GitHub stars and 300+ contributors.

## Links

- Website: https://www.openhands.dev
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openhands-ai
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/allhands_ai
- GitHub: https://github.com/OpenHands/openhands

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Last updated: 2026-07-18