Lumbridge vs OpenHands
An open-source platform for software engineering agents: a self-hosted control center, CLI and SDK for coding agents and automations, with a commercial cloud. Lumbridge is the open engine a company runs on when agents do the work: terminals, mail, notes, library, voice and a software factory on your own machines.
OpenHands
Pick OpenHands if you want an open-source, self-hosted agent team with automations and integrations that you can install today.
Open source · MITFree to self-host; paid Teams and Enterprise plans; a commercial cloud. Checked 2026-11-10.
Lumbridge Not released. Built from source today.
Pick Lumbridge if you want a terminal-first workspace with a phone app, plus mail, library, speech and model serving around the factory.
Open source · Apache-2.0All twelve repositories open on November 13, 2026.
01 · Side by side
What each covers.
| Area | Lumbridge | OpenHands |
|---|---|---|
| Terminals and agents | Core, TUI | Partly |
| Desktop app | App, Mods | Partly |
| Phone | Mobile | No |
| No | ||
| Docs and code library | Library | No |
| Notes | Notes | No |
| Voice and speech | Voice, Speak | No |
| Software factory | Factory | Yes |
| Models and inference | Computer, Lumbridge 1 | No |
| Whole engine | All twelve parts, on Ubuntu | No |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Price | Free; model API by the token | Free to self-host; paid Teams and Enterprise plans; a commercial cloud |
| Written in | Mostly Rust | TypeScript |
| Runs on | Ubuntu first; macOS for the desktop parts | macOS, Linux, Windows (Docker or Node.js); browser interface |
02 · Honestly
Where OpenHands is ahead.
- It is released and installable today with npm or one container image; Lumbridge is built from source and opens on November 13, 2026.
- A large community: its repository showed about 93 thousand stars on the day we checked.
- Agents can be triggered from chat, code hosts, trackers and monitoring tools, and each conversation can run in its own container.
- An SDK for building agent workflows into your own tools, and it runs several agents including its own.
03 · The difference
What Lumbridge adds.
- Core is a terminal runtime: any program stays running, reports status and can be attached from the App, the TUI or a phone.
- Mobile pairs a phone to read terminals and approve drafts.
- Mail, Notes, Library, Voice and Speak are parts of the stack.
- Computer serves and switches open models on your own GPU box. OpenHands asks you to bring a model key.
04 · More
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