hey, i’m looking to onboard and contribute to OpenHands. are there areas worth starting on that don’t need an api key? or are you guys able to provide a key for onboarding/contributing to issues or features that need llm usage?

heya! Well, OpenHands is an AI agent, it uses LLM all the time. Have you used OpenHands yet? Curious what do you mean, onboard and contribute

yes i understand. and no i havent used it bc i dont have api usage. it is not feasible to run locally, it will be too slow to iterate

FWIW I’m pretty sure OpenHands has some users who use a few local models; it’s not ideal at the moment, but it will improve. There are some other options. I thought I remember that Minimax was for free… but maybe it was for a limited time. Right now, my agent found these prices for what is worth, sorry. I think OpenRouter has quite a number of models for free though, they’re named with “:free” at the end of the model name. It also has promotions when a new LLM is released in stealth mode for the community to try it, and then it’s typically also for free - very good models, too.