OpenHands CLI vs Plandex

Feature	OpenHands CLI	Plandex

Tagline	Lightweight OpenHands CLI as a standalone AI coding agent	Open source AI coding agent for large projects and real world tasks
Website	https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands	https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex
Language	python	go
Release Date	October 18, 2025	March 14, 2024
Last Updated	August 19, 2026	August 19, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	No
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	No
Git Integration	basic	deep
Multi-File Editing	Yes	No
Auto Test Running	Yes	Yes
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	No	No
Voice Mode	No	No
IDE Integration	Zed, Toad, VS Code, JetBrains IDEs	None - Terminal only
Hooks / Extensions	No	No
Web Search	Yes	No
Local Model Support	Yes	Yes
Context Window	Model-dependent	2M tokens effective
Terminal Bench	#59 · 51.9% ±2.9 (Terminal-Bench 2.0) ¹
Supported Models	Models from multiple providers including, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI. Compatible with 400+ OpenRouter models.	Any OpenAI-compatible models and 400+ models from OpenRouter.
Pricing Model	BYOK	Free
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free (BYOK)	Free (self-hosted)
Source Code Availability	Open Source (MIT)	Open Source (MIT)
Source Code	https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands	https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex
Development State	active	inactive