Devin vs OpenHands

A predictable bill matters most for a newcomer. Devin publishes a $20/mo cheapest paid plan, and its free plan offers limited Devin usage to try it first. OpenHands Cloud Individual costs nothing for the plan itself, but usage is metered on your own API key per token, with LLM tokens at provider list price, so the bill depends on how much the agent runs. Neither publishes entry-tier usage or checkpoints and rollback. Both run in several places, including a CLI and a desktop app.

Training on company code is the first question, and neither gives a clean answer: Devin's self-serve plans may train by default, and OpenHands publishes no training policy. Both offer a self-hostedself-host - Run the software on your own servers instead of the vendor’s cloud. or VPC deployment and both reserve SSO for Enterprise, with Devin supporting Okta, Entra ID, SAML, OIDC and SCIM. The rest of the checklist favors Devin, which publishes a zero data retention option, SOC 2 and admin audit logs. OpenHands publishes none of those.

What the free plan actually allows decides this. OpenHands offers its Cloud Individual plan at no charge, running on your own API key with LLM tokens at provider list price, so real agent work is limited only by your provider spend. Devin's free plan gives only limited Devin usage, and its bring-your-own-key support is partial, through linking a ChatGPT Plus or Pro account for GPT-model usage. OpenHands also runs local models, while Devin's paid plans start at $20/mo.

Running models on your own machine is what matters most here, and only OpenHands confirms it runs local models; Devin does not publish local model support. OpenHands also connects to any LLM through LiteLLM-style profiles, is MIT licensed, and meters on your own API key. Devin's bring-your-own-key support is only partial, through a linked ChatGPT Plus or Pro account, and it publishes no license or provider list.

The license decides this, and only OpenHands has an open one: it is MIT licensed with 89,799 GitHub stars. It connects to any LLM through LiteLLM-style profiles, runs local models, and offers OpenHands Cloud as a hosted option for teams that would rather not run it themselves. Devin publishes no license, provider list, local model support or star count, so there is nothing to read or fork.

Both tools cover shell-first work equally well on the record. Devin runs in the cloud web app, a CLI and a desktop IDE plus four more surfaces, and OpenHands runs as a CLI, a local web GUI, in the cloud, as an SDK and on desktop. Both run terminal commands, both offer background or cloud agents, both support MCP, and both read project guidance, Devin through Knowledge notes and OpenHands through AGENTS.md plus skills. No deciding fact separates them.

Neither tool clearly publishes VS Code support: Devin lists its CLI running inside JetBrains IDEs among other editors, and OpenHands publishes no editor support. Beyond that, Devin publishes the in-editor capabilities this use case needs, autonomous multi-file edits and codebase indexing, while OpenHands publishes neither. Neither publishes checkpoints and rollback or entry-tier usage. That makes Devin the better documented fit, though VS Code users should confirm support first.