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 Agent Canvas (open source) for individual developers and small teams running the Agent Canvas 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 Agent Canvas and OpenHands Cloud / Enterprise offerings.

Feature	Agent Canvas (Local Backend)	Agent Canvas (VM Backend)	OpenHands Cloud (Hosted)	OpenHands Enterprise (Self-hosted)
CORE
Works on your local projects	✓	—	—	—
One-off agents	✓	✓	✓	✓
Secrets, MCP, skills	✓	✓	✓	✓
LLM Profiles	✓	✓	✓	✓
AUTOMATIONS
Scheduled automations	✓	✓	✓	✓
Polling automations (w/ conditional logic)	✓	✓	✓	✓
Event-driven automations	—	✓ VM must be reachable	✓	✓
SANDBOXING & SCALE
Isolated sandboxes	—	On Roadmap	✓	✓
Scalable, always-on agents	—	—	✓	✓
INTEGRATIONS & ADMIN
Use OpenHands in Slack, GitHub, GitLab	✓	✓	✓	✓
One-click integrations	—	—	✓	✓
Authentication & authorization	—	—	✓	✓
Role-based access control	—	—	✓	✓ Keycloak
Multi-user organizations	—	—	✓	✓
Enforce default LLMs	—	—	✓	✓
ENTERPRISE
SAML	—	—	—	✓
Custom runtime images	—	—	—	✓
LLM gateway & budgeting	—	—	—	✓ LiteLLM
Observability	—	—	—	✓ Laminar
Plugin marketplace	—	—	—	✓
License	Open Source	Open Source	Commercial SaaS	Commercial

When to Choose Each Option

OpenHands Agent Canvas

The OpenHands Agent Canvas 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 using the Agent Canvas

OpenHands Enterprise

OpenHands Enterprise is the right choice when you need:

• Multi-use RBAC — 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
• Usage Monitoring — Track and enforce budgets; monitor usage across all users

Getting Started

Try Agent Canvas

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.