Devin

Devin is an AI coding agent from Cognition that works on its own computer in the cloud. You give it a task in Slack, Teams, Linear, Jira or its web app, and it reads your code, makes the change, runs it and opens a pull request for someone to review. The same subscription now covers Devin Desktop, which is the Windsurf code editor renamed in June 2026, plus a terminal version and automatic code review.

Pick it over Claude Code or Codex if your team wants to hand off a queue of small, clearly described jobs and review the results later, without sitting with an agent while it works. It lets you choose from Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Grok and open models, plus Cognition's own SWE-2 model, and one $20 plan covers the editor and the cloud agent.

The catch is that it works best on well-scoped tasks like bug fixes, tests and migrations. Independent tests of vague or complex work have found much lower success rates, so someone technical still needs to check every pull request. Usage limits are a quota that refreshes daily and weekly and is hard to predict; users report good models burning a day's allowance in minutes, and the free SWE-2 promotion ends on 1 November 2026.

• Engineering teams
• Enterprises
• Technical founders
• Former Windsurf users

Software teams and technical founders with a backlog of small, clearly defined coding jobs they would rather delegate.

• Devin Cloud

  The autonomous agent runs on its own machine, works for hours if needed and opens a pull request when it is done.

• Devin Desktop

  The former Windsurf editor, now with a board for managing local and cloud agents, including Claude Code and Codex.

• Work from Slack and Linear

  Tag Devin in Slack, Teams, Linear or Jira and it picks up the task from there, then reports back in the thread.

• Devin Review

  Automatic code review on every change, including security checks, so problems get flagged before they go live.

• Choice of models

  Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, Kimi and GLM, plus Cognition's own SWE-2 and Fusion, which pairs a smart lead model with a cheaper helper.

• DeepWiki and memory

  It builds a wiki of your codebase and learns from past sessions, so it needs less explaining over time.

• Free

  Free

  Trying Devin Desktop as an editor.

  • Light agent quota
  • Limited model choice
  • Unlimited Tab completions and inline edits
  • No cloud agents
• Our pick

  Pro

  $20/mo

  Individuals who want the editor and the cloud agent.

  • Daily and weekly quota covering frontier models
  • Devin Cloud, up to 10 sessions at once
  • SWE-2 free until 1 November 2026
  • Extra usage at API prices

• Max

  $200/mo

  Heavy users running agents most of the day.

  • Much higher quotas than Pro
  • Everything in Pro

• Teams

  $80/mo plus $40 per developer seat

  Teams of up to 200 who want shared sessions and admin.

  • Each seat gets its own quota
  • Unlimited concurrent sessions
  • Admin dashboard, analytics and central billing
  • Priority support

• Enterprise

  Custom

  Large companies with security requirements.

  • Billed in Agent Compute Units
  • SSO, VPC deployment and admin controls
  • Efficiency-based spend limits
  • Dedicated account team

Prices in USD unless noted, checked 21 October 2026. Vendors change plans often, so confirm on their site before you buy.

Ways Devin can slot into your week.

1. 1

   Clear the small-ticket backlog

   Assign bug reports and minor feature requests to Devin from Linear or Jira and review the pull requests in one sitting.

2. 2

   Fix errors as they happen

   Connect it to your error logs so it investigates new errors, writes up the cause and proposes a fix.

3. 3

   Grind through a migration

   Upgrading a framework or moving off old code is repetitive work Devin handles well when the steps are clear.

4. 4

   Write the tests nobody wrote

   Ask it to add tests to an untested part of the codebase, so future changes are safer.

5. 5

   Answer questions about the code

   Non-developers can ask Devin in Slack how a feature works or why something broke, without pulling an engineer off their work.

It plugs into the tools a software team already uses: GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket for code, Slack or Teams for chat and Linear or Jira for tickets. Devin Desktop can also run Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode, so it can sit next to the agents your team already likes.

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• Warp4.1/5· best for A nicer home for Claude CodeDevin vs Warp

Nobody has reviewed Devin here yet. If you use it, your take helps everyone else choose.