# Amp vs OpenHands (slim)

> OpenHands scores 70.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Amp's 57.1 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Amp leads on transparency & trust. Both do agent harness. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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OpenHands scores 70.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Amp's 57.1 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Amp leads on transparency & trust. Both do agent harness.

- Amp: C 57.1, rank #427 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amp.min.md
- OpenHands: BB 70.8, rank #120 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openhands.min.md
- Amp, good for Teams that want a hosted, multi-model coding agent with shared threads and cloud machines, driven from scripts through execute mode or the SDKs. Ahead on Transparency & trust, 77 against 67. Also No incidents deducted, where OpenHands loses 5 points for them.
- OpenHands, good for Teams that want to self-host a coding agent with a web UI, per-conversation Docker sandboxes and scheduled or webhook automations, or embed the agent through a Python SDK and REST API. Ahead on Reliability, 83 against 31; Schema & documentation, 87 against 72; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 69; Security & auth, 66 against 57; Payments & pricing, 60 against 35; Maintenance & community, 85 against 79. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Open source.

| Category | Amp | OpenHands |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 31 | 83 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 72 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 66 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 79 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amp | OpenHands |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amp Frontier Corporation | All Hands AI |
| Licence | Proprietary, under the Amp licence terms (Amp Frontier Corporation). The npm packages are marked Amp Commercial License and the source repository is private | MIT (Agent Canvas, SDK, tools and Agent Server). OpenHands Cloud is a hosted service |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-09-30 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-10 | 2025-09-03 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |
| Popularity | 41k npm/wk | 90k stars |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (2) |