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Editorial pick

Devin

Cognition's autonomous software engineer.

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Best for

Engineering orgs with mature ticket hygiene who want to offload well-scoped, repetitive backlog to an autonomous agent.

At a glance

Pricing: paidfrom $500/mo
Setup time: 1 hour
Learning curve: medium
Last verified: 5/19/2026

What we love

✓Genuinely autonomous on bounded, well-scoped tickets
✓Slack workflow fits how engineering teams already operate
✓Session replay makes failures debuggable
✓Handles boilerplate migrations and bug fixes well

Where it falls short

−Expensive — $500/month team starter, ACU-metered usage on top
−Struggles on ambiguous or architecturally novel work
−Requires careful task scoping to avoid wasted cycles

Pricing

✓ Pricing verified Jun 21, 2026

5 tiers

Free

forever

✓Limited Devin usage
✓Devin Review
✓DeepWiki access

Pro

$20

per month

✓Devin usage quota
✓Windsurf IDE usage quota
✓Pay-as-you-go past quota
✓Slack, Linear, MCP integrations

Max

$200

per month

✓Increased Devin usage quota
✓Increased Windsurf IDE quota
✓Everything in Pro
✓Pay-as-you-go past quota

Teams

$80

per month

✓Unlimited team members
✓Centralized billing
✓Admin dashboard with analytics
✓Share and collaborate

Enterprise

Custom

annual contract

✓SAML/OIDC SSO
✓Centralized enterprise admin controls
✓Dedicated account team
✓VPC deployment available

Why we picked it

Expensive. Useful for delegating boilerplate work where you'd otherwise wait on a junior dev.
— MoreAI.tools editor

Overview

First commercially-available autonomous SWE agent. Handles full tickets — research, code, tests, PR. Premium pricing.

Key features

●Autonomous agent that plans, codes, tests, and ships PRs
●Sandbox VM per session with shell, browser, and editor
●Slack-native interface for assigning tasks
●GitHub integration with branch and PR creation
●Long-horizon task execution measured in hours
●Replayable session timeline for review and debugging
●Enterprise dashboard with usage and audit logs

Best use cases

Bug ticket triage

Assign well-scoped bug tickets in Slack and get a draft PR back without dev intervention.

Dependency upgrades

Run repetitive migrations like Node version bumps or library upgrades across many services.

Test coverage backfill

Point Devin at modules with low coverage and let it generate unit tests overnight.

Integrations

Slack

GitHub

GitLab

Jira

Linear

VS Code

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