Enterprise vs. Open Source

Compare OpenHands Enterprise and Open Source offerings to choose the right option for your team

This page describes the key differences between OpenHands Local GUI (open source) for individual developers and small teams running the Local GUI on their own machines, and OpenHands Enterprise for organizations that need advanced collaboration, integrations, and management capabilities.

Feature Comparison

The table below highlights the key differences between the OpenHands Local GUI and OpenHands Enterprise offerings:

Feature	Local GUI	OpenHands Enterprise
Full breadth of agent functionality (sub-agents, MCP, skills, model agnosticism)	✅	✅
Where does the agent run?	Local dev machines	Scalable, runtime sandboxes
Scalability Run multiple concurrent agent conversations	Limited by machine	Unlimited, on-demand
’@OpenHands’ in Slack and Jira Important for real-time resolution of bugs and feedback	❌	✅
‘@OpenHands’ in GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket Important for real-time resolution of PR comments and failing tests	❌	✅
Multiple agent conversations in one place Give users visibility into all agent conversations	✅	✅
Share conversations Unlock collaboration use cases	❌	✅
Remote monitoring of agent conversations Enable Human-in-the-Loop operations for running agents	❌ Requires access to machine where agent is running	✅ Monitor remotely from OpenHands Enterprise UI
Multi-user management and RBAC Roll out to several users and teams	❌	✅
Automations Create scheduled and event-based workflows	❌	✅
SAML	❌	✅
REST APIs	❌	✅

When to Choose Each Option

OpenHands Local GUI

The OpenHands Local GUI is ideal for:

• Individual developers exploring AI-assisted coding
• Small teams with basic requirements
• Self-hosted environments where you manage your own infrastructure
• Running OpenHands locally on your own machine

OpenHands Enterprise

OpenHands Enterprise is the right choice when you need:

• Team collaboration — Share conversations and manage multiple users from a single platform
• Platform integrations — Invoke OpenHands directly from Slack, Jira, GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket
• Scalability — Run unlimited parallel agent conversations without local resource constraints
• Enterprise security — SAML authentication, RBAC, and centralized audit logs
• Remote monitoring — Track agent progress in real-time from anywhere

Getting Started

Try Local GUI

Get started with OpenHands on your local machine using Docker or the CLI launcher.

Contact Enterprise Sales

Discuss your organization’s requirements and get a customized deployment plan for OpenHands Enterprise.