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OpenHands vs Cursor

OpenHands

OpenHands

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Cursor

Cursor

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Detailed Comparison

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Pricing
FreemiumOpenHands has three tiers. The Open Source plan is free forever (MIT license) — self-host locally with your own LLM keys, with a web-based GUI, terminal UI, CLI, Git integrations, and community support. No infra cost. The Cloud Individual plan is also free, adding hosted cloud access from desktop and mobile, API support for automation and scripting, Jira and Slack integrations, and BYOK or access to the OpenHands LLM provider at-cost with no markup. The Individual plan supports 1 user with up to 10 conversations per day. Enterprise has custom pricing and adds VPC or self-hosted deployment (code never leaves your environment), Enterprise SAML/SSO, RBAC, unlimited concurrent conversations per user, the Large Codebase SDK for large/legacy codebases, centralized team billing, Agent Control Plane, audit logs, budget controls, priority support, a named Customer Engineer, and a shared Slack channel. Contact sales at openhands.dev/contact.
FreemiumCursor's Hobby plan is free with no credit card required, offering limited Agent requests, limited Tab completions, and access to Composer. Pro costs $20/month and includes extended Agent limits, generous Grok and Composer limits, access to frontier models, MCPs/skills/hooks, cloud agents, and a $20 monthly credit pool for premium model usage. Pro+ costs $60/month with roughly 3x Pro's usage limits and a larger credit pool (~$70). Ultra costs $200/month with about 20x Pro's limits, a ~$400 credit pool, and priority access to new features. Teams Standard costs $40/user/month and adds centralized billing, a team marketplace, Bugbot code reviews, shared cloud agents, usage analytics, team-wide privacy mode, and SAML/OIDC SSO; Teams Premium costs around $120/user/month with roughly 5x Standard's included usage. Enterprise is custom-priced and adds pooled usage, invoice/PO billing, SCIM seat management, repository/model/MCP access controls, audit logs, and an AI code tracking API. Annual billing saves approximately 20% across all paid plans, and all prices are exclusive of applicable taxes.
Categories
AI Coding AssistantsAI Productivity ToolsAI Developer APIs & PlatformsAI No-Code / Automation Tools
AI Coding Assistants
Summary
The open platform for cloud coding agents — autonomous, transparent, and in your control
AI-native code editor with autonomous agents for building software
OpenHands

OpenHands Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Most-starred open-source coding agent on GitHub with 80,800+ stars and MIT license — transparent, community-audited, and free forever to self-host
  • Fully autonomous end-to-end task completion — not autocomplete or suggestions; agents actually plan, code, test, and push PRs
  • Model-agnostic with BYOK — no vendor lock-in; use Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Llama, or any other LLM
  • 70+ integrations and event-triggered automations run agents in the cloud even when your machine is off
  • Trusted by engineers at Apple, Google, Amazon, Netflix, TikTok, NVIDIA, Mastercard, VMware, AMD, and MongoDB
  • Enterprise adopters report 87% of bug tickets resolved same-day and code-maintenance backlogs reduced by up to 50%

Cons

  • Fully autonomous agents can make unintended changes — production use requires careful scope control and human review of diffs before merging
  • Cloud Individual plan limits daily conversations to 10 — heavy users need Enterprise for unlimited runs
  • Self-hosted deployment requires Docker and local setup; not a zero-config experience for non-technical teams
  • Enterprise pricing is custom and sales-gated — no transparent list price for team deployments
  • Open-source core means community support on the free tier; production SLAs and priority support require Enterprise
Cursor

Cursor Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Deep AI-native integration rather than a bolted-on plugin experience
  • Free Hobby tier available with no credit card required
  • Wide model choice across OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and in-house Composer models
  • Autonomous cloud agents can work tasks end-to-end in parallel
  • Privacy Mode guarantees code isn't used for model training when enabled
  • SOC 2 certified with strong enterprise governance and access controls

Cons

  • Credit-based billing means heavy agent or premium-model usage can exceed the base plan quickly
  • Ultra tier is expensive at $200/month for power users
  • As a VS Code fork, some proprietary VS Code extensions may not be fully compatible
  • On-demand overage costs beyond included credits are billed in arrears and can surprise new users
  • Enterprise pricing and invoice billing require contacting sales rather than transparent self-serve rates

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