# Jules vs OpenHands (slim)

> OpenHands scores 70.8 (BB) to Jules's 44.5 (E) 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 Jules's 44.5 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do agent harnesses.

- Jules: E 44.5, rank #1000 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules.min.md
- OpenHands: BB 70.8, rank #153 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openhands.min.md
- Jules, good for A person or pipeline that wants to hand scoped GitHub tasks to a cloud agent and collect a pull request or a patch, or run a repoless job in a disposable VM. Also Runs on your own machine; 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 13; Schema & documentation, 87 against 76; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 64; Security & auth, 66 against 57; Payments & pricing, 60 against 30; Maintenance & community, 85 against 18; Transparency & trust, 67 against 44. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Open source.

| Category | Jules | OpenHands |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 13 | 83 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 76 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 64 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 66 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 18 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 44 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Jules | OpenHands |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Google LLC | All Hands AI |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio |  |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the Google Terms of Service. The TypeScript SDK is Apache-2.0; the CLI binary is closed | MIT (Agent Canvas, SDK, tools and Agent Server). OpenHands Cloud is a hosted service |
| Tools exposed | 8 | none |
| Last release | 2026-03-09 | 2026-09-30 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-30 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | 2025-09-03 |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |
| Popularity | 1.3k npm/wk | 90k stars |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 2.5/5 (2) |