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OpenHands vs Devin: license, pricing and features compared (October 2026)

OpenHands and Devin are both listed under AI coding agents. OpenHands is open source (MIT); Devin is not: Proprietary. Pricing model: OpenHands is "Free and open source (plus paid cloud/enterprise)"; Devin is "Freemium". OpenHands is the better fit for: teams that want an open-source alternative to cloud coding agents. Devin is the better fit for: teams that want to delegate whole tickets to a cloud agent and review PRs. Facts were read from vendor and GitHub pages on Oct 25, 2026 and are Reported; what we ran ourselves is under What we measured.

Our pick: Pick OpenHands for teams that want an open-source alternative to cloud coding agents; pick Devin for teams that want to delegate whole tickets to a cloud agent and review PRs. No overall winner: we have not benchmarked them against each other. Updated (America/Chicago).

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Evidence: Reported for both tools. The facts in the tables were read from each vendor's own pages and the public GitHub API on 2026-10-25 (America/Chicago). The What we measured section says what we have not run yet; anything we could not confirm is marked as not captured.

OpenHands

OpenHands (open-source project) · v1.33.0

Reported

Open-source AI coding agent platform you can start locally, automate with workflows and run with any model.

Devin

Cognition

Reported

Cognition's autonomous software engineer: a cloud coding agent that tests in its own browser and aims to hand back a mergeable pull request.

Side by side, from what we recorded

Each row compares one recorded fact for both tools. Rows are not weighted and nothing is added up into a score; the note under each row says what the marker means.

  • Evidence

    Reported for OpenHands
    Reported for Devin

    Tested = we ran it (smoke test); Reported = we read official sources

  • Pricing we could verify

    Partly verified for OpenHands
    Verified from official page (Devin is ahead on this row) for Devin

    About our evidence only, not about the price

  • Steps in our setup guide

    2 for OpenHands
    2 for Devin

    Counts our guide's steps, not difficulty

  • Sources we cite

    4 for OpenHands
    3 for Devin

    How much we had to read; more is not better

A list of recorded differences, not a quality score or a ranking. We have not benchmarked these tools against each other; the smoke-test row links each tool's own log. How we label evidence.

What we measured

We tried one of these tools but could not complete our task as stated, so neither is marked Tested. Everything else on this page is Reported from vendor and GitHub pages.

Our own tests for OpenHands and Devin
TestOpenHandsDevin
Hands-on test log (install and a real task)Tried, not marked Tested (our task did not complete as stated): OpenHands CLI 1.16.0 (SDK 1.21.0), Oct 25, 2026: failed. OpenHands 1.16.0 installed (14 s, 537 MB) and started its agent, but with a local 3B model it made 0 edits in 2 trials: calc.py was unchanged. Full test logNot tested yet. What we will run: the same failing-unit-test fix in a fresh repository, scored by whether the tests pass, with wall time and tool calls.

How we test and label results: methodology. All test logs: test hub.

OpenHands vs Devin at a glance

OpenHands and Devin are both listed under AI coding agents. Agentic Weekly's OpenHands page names Devin as an alternative. OpenHands: Open-source AI coding agent platform you can start locally, automate with workflows and run with any model. Devin: Cognition's autonomous software engineer: a cloud coding agent that tests in its own browser and aims to hand back a mergeable pull request.

OpenHands and Devin side by side (vendor pages and GitHub, 2026-10-25)
FeatureOpenHandsDevin
VendorOpenHands (open-source project)Cognition
Listed underAI coding agents, Agent buildingAI coding agents
LicenseMITProprietary
Pricing modelFree and open source (plus paid cloud/enterprise)Freemium
Free tierOpen-source software is free; model usage costs depend on your providerFree plan: $0 (light quota; Devin Cloud is not listed under Free)
Paid plansCloud and enterprise pricing not readPro $20/month includes access to Devin Cloud; Max $200/month; Teams $80/month plus $40/month per full dev seat; Enterprise custom
PlatformsRuns locally or in the cloud; web and CLI (per site)Cloud agent; Devin Desktop and Devin CLI also listed on the site
Public repositoryAll-Hands-AI/OpenHands: 91,839 stars, last push Oct 25, 2026 UTC (GitHub API, Oct 25, 2026)Not captured on the pages we read
Latest release we sawv1.33.0, Oct 23, 2026Not captured on the pages we read
EvidenceReported from vendor pagesReported from vendor pages

How OpenHands and Devin differ

  • OpenHands is open source (MIT); Devin is not: Proprietary.
  • Pricing model: OpenHands is "Free and open source (plus paid cloud/enterprise)"; Devin is "Freemium".
  • OpenHands publishes source on GitHub (All-Hands-AI/OpenHands, 91,839 stars on Oct 25, 2026); we found no public repository for Devin to compare against.
  • Free tier: OpenHands: Open-source software is free; model usage costs depend on your provider. Devin: $0 (light quota; Devin Cloud is not listed under Free).
  • Plans and prices differ and are not like-for-like (credits, seats and usage limits vary), so we do not name a cheaper tool. The Paid plans row above quotes each vendor's plan list as read on Oct 25, 2026.

Which should you pick?

  • Pick OpenHands if: teams that want an open-source alternative to cloud coding agents; developers who want to bring their own model. Skip it if: you want a flat-fee hosted product with published pricing we can quote.
  • Pick Devin if: teams that want to delegate whole tickets to a cloud agent and review PRs; engineers who want tasks to keep running after they close their laptop. Skip it if: you want a low-cost, bring-your-own-model workflow (Aider and OpenHands are open source).

Strengths and limits

Strengths and limits as listed on each tool page
FeatureOpenHandsDevin
StrengthsMIT license; Active releases (v1.33.0 on Oct 23, 2026); Model-agnosticFree plan exists; Slack, Linear, Jira and the main git hosts are supported on paid plans; One vendor for cloud, desktop, CLI and review
LimitsHosted pricing not verified here; Setup is more involved than a hosted app; Our own run did not complete: OpenHands 1.16.0 installed (14 s, 537 MB) and started its agent, but with a local 3B model it made 0 edits in 2 trials: calc.py was unchanged. See /tests/openhands-cliUsage allowances are not given as numbers on the page; Concurrent sessions are capped at 10 on Pro and Max; Proprietary and cloud-based

What we did not verify

  • OpenHands: Cloud pricing.
  • Devin: Release date (none published on the pages we read; the date shown is the day we first covered this entry).
  • Output quality, speed and reliability beyond the smoke tests listed under What we measured: not compared.

FAQ

Is OpenHands or Devin open source?

OpenHands: MIT. Devin: Proprietary. Licenses come from each project's GitHub repository or the vendor's own pages, read Oct 25, 2026; read the license text itself before redistributing or building a competing service.

Does OpenHands or Devin have a free plan?

OpenHands: Open-source software is free; model usage costs depend on your provider. Devin: Free: plan: $0 (light quota; Devin Cloud is not listed under Free). Checked Oct 25, 2026; prices and limits change, so confirm on each vendor's page.

What is the main difference between OpenHands and Devin?

OpenHands is open source (MIT); Devin is not: Proprietary. Pricing model: OpenHands is "Free and open source (plus paid cloud/enterprise)"; Devin is "Freemium".

Sources

Page history

  • : First published. Facts read from vendor pages and the GitHub API on 2026-10-25.

Markdown version for agents: /compare/openhands-vs-devin.md