# Auggie CLI vs OpenHands (slim)

> OpenHands scores 70.8 (BB) to Auggie CLI's 50.8 (D) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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OpenHands scores 70.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Auggie CLI's 50.8 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do agent harnesses.

- Auggie CLI: D 50.8, rank #872 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/auggie.min.md
- OpenHands: BB 70.8, rank #153 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openhands.min.md
- Auggie CLI, good for Teams already paying for Augment who want its Context Engine in a terminal, in CI or through ACP and MCP, with permission rules a security team can delegate to a webhook. 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 43; Schema & documentation, 87 against 67; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 65; Security & auth, 66 against 47; Payments & pricing, 60 against 20; Maintenance & community, 85 against 58; Transparency & trust, 67 against 57. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Open source.

| Category | Auggie CLI | OpenHands |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 43 | 83 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 67 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 47 | 66 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 58 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 57 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Auggie CLI | OpenHands |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Harness (formerly Augment Code) | All Hands AI |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary. The licence from Augment Computing, Inc. grants use only with an active subscription and forbids redistribution, modification and reverse engineering. The GitHub repository holds the README, changelog, examples and issue tracker, not the source | MIT (Agent Canvas, SDK, tools and Agent Server). OpenHands Cloud is a hosted service |
| Last release | 2026-08-21 | 2026-09-30 |
| Terms last updated |  | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2025-09-03 |
| Customer content may train models |  | yes |
| Popularity | 16k npm/wk | 90k stars |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 2.5/5 (2) |