The best OpenHands alternatives
8 tools that do a similar job to OpenHands, 8 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.
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OpenHandsA self-hosted control panel that runs AI coding agents on your machine, in Docker, or in the cloud.
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One API
Open source · MIT · ★ 37.3k
Self-hosted gateway that exposes many LLM providers through one OpenAI-style API with key management.
Best for: Developers who want one OpenAI-compatible endpoint for several model providers; Small teams or groups who need to issue and limit API keys to members
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LlamaGPT
Open source · MIT · ★ 10.9k
A self-hosted chatbot that runs Llama 2 models locally, so your chats stay on your machine.
Best for: People who want a private chatbot and don't want to send prompts to a cloud provider; Users with a home server running umbrelOS who want a one-click install
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codex-chatgpt-web
Open source · MIT · ★ 15.4k
Lets Codex use your signed-in ChatGPT Web models (including Pro) as its model, without using Codex quota.
Best for: Developers who already pay for ChatGPT and want to use its web models inside Codex; People who want Codex's model picker to include ChatGPT Web models, including Pro versions where the account exposes them
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wechat-bot
Open source · MIT · ★ 11.5k
Open-source bot that connects WeChat, Lark, Telegram, or WhatsApp to AI models like ChatGPT, Claude, or DeepSe
Best for: Developers who want an AI auto-reply bot for a narrow set of WeChat friends or groups; Users who want to route Telegram or WhatsApp messages to an AI model they already pay for
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GitDiagram
Open source · MIT · ★ 18.7k
Turns a GitHub repository into an interactive architecture diagram or a one-minute narrated video.
Best for: Developers getting oriented in an unfamiliar codebase; Students studying how a real project is structured
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Reasonix
Open source · MIT · ★ 36k
An open-source AI coding assistant that reads, edits and tests code in your project folder.
Best for: Developers who want an AI assistant to make multi-step changes in a local project; People who want to choose or switch their own model provider
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draw-a-ui
Open source · MIT · ★ 13.6k
Draw a rough wireframe in a canvas and get HTML/Tailwind code generated from it by GPT-4 Vision.
Best for: Developers exploring how vision models can turn sketches into HTML; Designers who want a quick rough draft of a page layout as code
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LibreChat
Open source · MIT · ★ 46.6k
Self-hosted, open-source chat interface for many AI models, with agents, tools, and multi-user login.
Best for: Teams that want one shared chat interface across several AI providers; People who want to self-host a ChatGPT-style interface and keep their data on their own server
How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to OpenHands. We don't take payment for placement.