# Junie CLI vs OpenHands (slim)

> OpenHands scores 70.8 (BB) to Junie CLI's 53.2 (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 Junie CLI's 53.2 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Junie CLI leads on transparency & trust. Both do agent harnesses.

- Junie CLI: D 53.2, rank #804 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/junie.min.md
- OpenHands: BB 70.8, rank #153 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openhands.min.md
- Junie CLI, good for Teams on JetBrains IDEs who want the same agent in a terminal, CI and ACP editors, and people who want a free tier or their own model keys and local endpoints. Ahead on Transparency & trust, 78 against 67. Also Free to start without a card.
- 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 45; Schema & documentation, 87 against 62; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 55; Security & auth, 66 against 56; Payments & pricing, 60 against 42; Maintenance & community, 85 against 72. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Open source.

| Category | Junie CLI | OpenHands |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 45 | 83 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 62 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 55 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 56 | 66 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 42 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 72 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 78 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Junie CLI | OpenHands |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | JetBrains | All Hands AI |
| Licence | Proprietary, JetBrains s.r.o., all rights reserved, under the JetBrains AI Terms of Service. The GitHub repository holds the README, release binaries and the issue tracker, not source | MIT (Agent Canvas, SDK, tools and Agent Server). OpenHands Cloud is a hosted service |
| Last release | 2026-10-16 | 2026-09-30 |
| Terms last updated |  | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-12 | 2025-09-03 |
| Customer content may train models |  | yes |
| Popularity | 487 stars, 3.2k npm/wk | 90k stars |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 2.5/5 (2) |