At OpenHands, our number one mission is to build a highly autonomous and accessible coding agent that can be used for any software development task, any time. One of our flagship ways to provide this is through the OpenHands Cloud where users can interact with agents through a GUI, API, or integrations into Slack, GitHub, GitLab, and BitBucket.

We are constantly listening to feedback from the cloud users, and this month worked hard to fix two major requests that we got from users:

We thought hard about how to deliver these, and here's our best try for both.

Model Choice + BYOK on the Cloud

Up until this point, the cloud version of OpenHands was mainly powered by Claude Sonnet, and in order to cover the cost of developing and serving the OpenHands Cloud, we were charging 2x the API costs of Claude itself. This had two issues:

In order to make this possible, we are introducing a new subscription model, where you can subscribe for $20/month which unlocks a number of nice features:

We hope this will greatly improve the economics of using OpenHands for users, and also allow you to choose between your favorite models without lock-in to a single provider.

OpenHands GUI Redesign

One other major change that we made is a complete GUI refresh designed to make the OpenHands conversation experience more smooth, reliable, and fun!

A number of quality of life improvements have been made, such as:

A cleaner start page: Key actions like starting new conversations, opening repositories, or revisiting recent conversations are better organized and accessible.

Full screen conversations: Easily hide the Action Panel, enabling a full screen conversation experience.

Expandable input area: Easily drag and expand the input area, giving you a bigger canvas to write prompts.

Status area: Easily see runtime status (on the left) and agent status (on the right).

Git controls: Easily push, pull, or create PRs. Clicking these buttons will trigger a prompt for OpenHands to perform the git action.

These are just some of the changes you'll see in the latest release from the OpenHands V1 initiative.

What This Means for You

With these updates, OpenHands Cloud becomes significantly more accessible and cost-effective:

Whether you're working on a quick bug fix, implementing a complex feature, or maintaining an open-source project, these improvements make OpenHands Cloud a more powerful and economical choice for AI-assisted development.

Get Started Today

Ready to experience the new OpenHands Cloud? Sign up today and take advantage of our new subscription model with expanded model choices and the redesigned interface.

Please let us know what you think of these improvements by joining the Slack or emailing us directly!