OpenHands
★ 90.6kA self-hosted alternative to V0, Claude Code, Cursor
MIT LicenseOpen Core — Some Features PaidSingle Container — single container — minimal hosting footprintDocker · K8s · Binary +1No external DB49+ active committers (12mo)
About
OpenHands is an AI-driven development platform centered around agentic software engineering workflows. It offers multiple entry points: a composable Python SDK for building agents in code, a CLI for...
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Features
- composable Python agent SDK
- local agent execution
- cloud-scale agent execution
- CLI interface
- local GUI
- REST API
- single-page React application
- GitHub/GitLab sign-in
- Slack integration
- Jira integration
Details
- Last Updated
- Oct 12, 2026
- Created
- Mar 13, 2024
- Install Methods
- dockerkubernetesbinarysource
- Requirements
- Claude, GPT, or another LLMKubernetes for self-hosting OpenHands Cloud in an enterprise VPC
- Authentication
- oauth
- API
- REST
- Privacy & Independence
- Cloud: Optional
- User Model
- Multi-User
- Deployment
Deployment: Docker Compose ✓Single Container — minimal hosting footprintsingle container
Run OpenHands with Docker Compose
Compose file from the OpenHands project repository.
1 service
no resource limits declared
needs persistent storage (3 volumes)
docker-compose.yml · @ 73d1d9a · scanned Jun 4, 2026
services:
openhands:
build:
context: ./
dockerfile: ./containers/app/Dockerfile
image: openhands:latest
container_name: openhands-app-${DATE:-}
environment:
- AGENT_SERVER_IMAGE_REPOSITORY=${AGENT_SERVER_IMAGE_REPOSITORY:-ghcr.io/openhands/agent-server}
- AGENT_SERVER_IMAGE_TAG=${AGENT_SERVER_IMAGE_TAG:-1.19.1-python}
#- SANDBOX_USER_ID=${SANDBOX_USER_ID:-1234} # enable this only if you want a specific non-root sandbox user but you will have to manually adjust permissions of ~/.openhands for this user
- WORKSPACE_MOUNT_PATH=${WORKSPACE_BASE:-$PWD/workspace}
ports:
- "3000:3000"
extra_hosts:
- "host.docker.internal:host-gateway"
volumes:
- /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
- ~/.openhands:/.openhands
- ${WORKSPACE_BASE:-$PWD/workspace}:/opt/workspace_base
pull_policy: build
stdin_open: true
tty: true
This file may be out of date. Check the OpenHands documentation for current setup steps.
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