# Muse Code vs OpenHands (slim)

> OpenHands scores 70.8 (BB) to Muse Code's 61.3 (C) 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 Muse Code's 61.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do agent harnesses.

- Muse Code: C 61.3, rank #487 of 993 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/muse-code.min.md
- OpenHands: BB 70.8, rank #143 of 993 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openhands.min.md
- Muse Code, good for Developers who want Meta's Muse models, Muse Wonder Full included, in a terminal or CI agent with the sandbox and approvals on from the first run. 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 45; Payments & pricing, 60 against 20; Maintenance & community, 85 against 75; Transparency & trust, 67 against 57. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Open source.

| Category | Muse Code | OpenHands |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 45 | 83 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 84 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 79 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 67 | 66 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 75 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 57 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Muse Code | OpenHands |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Meta | All Hands AI |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary binary, used under the Meta Model API Terms of Service, which cover Meta's coding harness. Subscriptions are also under the Meta Subscription Terms of Service. The TypeScript and Python SDKs in the linked repository are MIT. | MIT (Agent Canvas, SDK, tools and Agent Server). OpenHands Cloud is a hosted service |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-11 | 2026-09-30 |
| Terms last updated |  | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2025-09-03 |
| Customer content may train models |  | yes |
| Popularity | 63k npm/wk | 90k stars |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (2) |