acme-co/ your whole company, as filesagents/ who does the workskills/ how your company does a jobmemory/ what it has learned so farkortix.yaml the machine, the connectors, the triggersAn OpenHands alternative for the whole company
Kortix is the open-source AI Operating System a whole company can run, and the pick when a team outgrows a coding-agent harness like OpenHands. Your agents, skills, memory and connectors live in one git repo you own, and every session runs on its own isolated machine.
The open-source AI Operating System
Thousands of agents in parallel on one config, each on its own cloud computer.
Each layer does a different job inside one system you own.
Your agents, their skills, your company memory, and every connector live in one git repo you own.
kortix.yaml the machine, the connectors, the triggersagents/ who does the workskills/ how your company does a jobmemory/ what it has learned so farAn agent is agents/<name>.md (behavior) plus an agents.<name> block in kortix.yaml (governance).
# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://kortix.com/schema/kortix.v2.schema.jsonkortix_version: 2default_agent: kortixagents: kortix: file: agents/kortix.mdOne isolated sandbox per session. Each session has its own isolated machine and branch.
$ kortix sessions new -p "Fix the failing test in src/billing and open a change request"# Kortix cuts a branch from base_ref; the branch name is the session_id# The sandbox clones the repo to /workspace and starts the harness3,000+ apps in a click, plus MCP, OpenAPI, Postman, GraphQL and raw HTTP.
connectors: - slug: gmail name: Gmail provider: composio app: gmailSession work reaches main through a change request. Merge is default-deny for agents.
$ kortix cr ls$ kortix cr diff 1$ kortix cr merge 1Run it on Kortix Cloud, in your VPC, or on your own on-prem network. Self-host is free.
$ kortix self-host init --domain kortix.example.com --admin-email you@example.com$ kortix self-host start$ kortix self-host doctorWhat each of them is built to finish once the work goes past code.
Rival facts come from each project's own site or repository, checked October 2026.
Open source. Read it, fork it, audit it.
Short answers, with the sources.
Yes. Kortix is open source: read it, fork it, audit it. Self-host is free, and the source is at Kortix on GitHub.
It depends on the job the agent does. OpenHands stays the option for coding agents, Open WebUI adds a private chat surface over your own models, n8n automates fixed steps on a visual canvas, and Kortix runs agent work across a whole company from one repo. All four are open source, and they differ in the unit of work each one finishes.
Yes, and with Kortix you self-host the whole system rather than the agent runtime alone. It installs as one Docker Compose stack on a Linux server you control, with your own sandbox provider key and your own model key (Read the docs).
Yes. Self-host is free. Free includes 200 credits each month for sandbox compute and 1 project, and $40/seat/month includes 2,500 pooled credits per seat (Kortix pricing).
OpenHands is a control center for coding agents; Kortix is the system a company runs. Coding is one of many jobs: the same agents work in Slack and Microsoft Teams, on cron schedules and across 3,000+ apps, and every session is a sandbox on its own branch. Kortix vs OpenHands works through the change in detail.
Nothing has to replace it. Teams tend to keep OpenHands for code and add Kortix when the work spreads past engineering, because both land work in git. The OpenHands vs Kortix comparison covers what moves and what stays.
You can read the code, fork it and audit it. Run it on Kortix Cloud, in your VPC, or on your own on-prem network; self-host is free.