Agents
Devin
by Cognition Labs
The autonomous software engineer. Plan, write, test, and ship in a sandboxed cloud workstation.
Our verdict
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From the listing
About Devin
Devin is Cognition's fully autonomous software engineer. It runs in a sandboxed cloud workstation with a terminal, browser, and code editor. You assign it a task; it plans, executes, debugs, and ships a pull request. Devin is designed to be assigned work like a teammate, not prompted like a tool.
Best for
Teams ready to give a junior engineer-equivalent a ticket and walk away
Use cases
- Long-running bug fixes that span investigation, fix, and verification
- Building small features end to end from a Linear ticket
- Backend migrations where the agent can run, observe, and self-correct
- Tasks where you want to hand it off and check back later, not pair-program
Notes
Why it matters
Devin is the most public bet on "agent as employee, not assistant." Other products pretend; Devin is built top to bottom around the assumption that you hand off a problem and walk away.
How teams use it in production
Best results come from tightly scoped tickets in mature codebases with good tests. Treat Devin like an offshore contractor: write the brief well, set a budget, review the PR critically.
What to watch
The gap between "Devin demos beautifully" and "Devin lands the PR" remains real. Track your own pass rate by task type before committing to a seat budget.
Pros
- Genuinely autonomous, runs for hours without supervision when it works
- Cloud sandbox means no local setup or risk
- Slack integration makes ticket assignment frictionless
- Quietly best-in-class at long-horizon planning
Cons
- Quality is highly task-shaped, breaks down on novel or messy codebases
- Expensive per task compared to interactive agents
- Limited control over how it actually solves the problem
Key facts
What we have checked
- Free plan
- Free tier available
- Max plan
- $200.00 a month
- Pro plan
- $20.00 a month
- Teams plan
- $80.00 a month
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Price
What Devin costs, over time
Plans and prices
| Plan | Price | Over time | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| FreeFree tier | Free tier availableSince 24 Oct 2026 | No change recorded | devin.ai |
| MaxFlat | $200.00 a monthSince 24 Oct 2026 | No change recorded | devin.ai |
| ProFlat | $20.00 a monthSince 24 Oct 2026 | No change recorded | devin.ai |
| TeamsFlat | $80.00 a monthSince 24 Oct 2026 | No change recorded | devin.ai |
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Sources
Where this comes from
- devin.aiOfficial
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Changelog
What changed
No changes recorded yet. Releases, price changes and deprecations appear here, with their dates, once we track them for this record.
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