Devin, your teammate in Slack
Published by CognitionWatch on YouTube
Updated Oct 4, 2026
AI Coding Tools
Devin
Autonomous coding agent that turns tickets into pull requests
From $20/mo
Devin at a glance
from our research
An autonomous agent that works tickets on its own cloud VM and opens pull requests for review
Runs sessions in parallel and takes work from Jira, Linear, Slack and Microsoft Teams
Cognition's guidance covers tasks of three hours' work or less; longer ones should be split up
Pro costs $20 a month for one user; Teams costs $40 per full seat a month, with an $80 monthly minimum
Overview
What is Devin?
Devin is an autonomous coding agent made by Cognition, a US company founded in 2023. It works through whole tasks on its own cloud virtual machine, which has a terminal, a code editor and a browser, and hands back a pull request. Cognition also owns Windsurf, renamed Devin Desktop in June 2026, and the two products are sold on the same plans.
You give Devin a task in its web app, in Slack or Microsoft Teams, by assigning it a Jira or Linear ticket, or by commenting /devin on a GitHub pull request. It reads the repository, writes the code and runs your existing tests, linting and type checks, iterating until they pass, then opens a pull request that follows your repository's template. You can watch its terminal and browser as it works, take over in the embedded editor, or leave it running; a session left idle for 30 minutes goes to sleep and stops using quota. Several sessions can run in parallel, and Ask Devin helps scope a task before any code is written.
Devin works with repositories on GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps, reaches tools such as Sentry or Datadog through MCP servers, and can also be driven from Devin CLI, its API or Devin Desktop. Devin Review gives automated first-pass reviews of pull requests, and DeepWiki generates documentation for a codebase. Self-serve plans include a usage quota that refreshes daily and weekly, with extra usage paid from prepaid credits at API prices, while Enterprise is billed in Agent Compute Units.
Our verdict on Devin
Updated Oct 4, 2026Pricing checked Oct 3, 2026
Devin is built for delegation: someone assigns a ticket, and a pull request arrives later without anyone driving an editor. That suits a backlog of well-defined work, such as migrations, refactors, reproducible bugs and repetitive chores, where tests or CI can confirm the result. Sessions run in parallel, and because Devin takes work from Jira, Linear, Slack and Microsoft Teams and supports GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps, its pull requests land in the review process a team already has.
The limits follow from the same design. Cognition's own rule of thumb is that Devin can most likely handle a task that would take a person three hours or less, so vague or sprawling work has to be scoped or split first. Usage accrues for the work a session performs, including planning, browsing and running code, so a session that heads in the wrong direction still costs, and every pull request still needs a human reviewer. Quota sizes are not published, and Pro has a daily cap as well as a weekly one. By default, Cognition may also use customer data for training; paid plans can opt out.
Pro, at $20 a month for one user, is where most buyers start, and it includes cloud sessions, full model availability and the Devin Desktop editor. Past its quota, work continues on prepaid credits at API prices, and purchased credits never expire. Max costs $200 a month for a much larger weekly quota with no daily cap. Teams costs $40 per full seat a month with an $80 monthly minimum, and free flex seats that draw on shared credits mean occasional users do not each need a paid seat. SSO is listed only on Enterprise, which is priced by quote.
Choose Devin if your team has a steady supply of well-specified tickets and wants them turned into pull requests in the background. If you would rather direct an agent step by step on your own machine, Claude Code is the better fit: it runs in the terminal or as a VS Code or JetBrains extension, asks before changing files or running commands, and its Pro plan costs $20 a month, or $17 a month billed yearly.
Written by Lokesh Kapoor
Pros & cons
Devin pros and cons
What it does well
- Runs your tests, linting and type checks, iterating until they pass
- Works with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps repositories
- Idle sessions sleep after 30 minutes and stop consuming usage
- Free flex seats on Teams let occasional users draw on shared credits
Where it falls short
- Sessions that go the wrong way still use quota or credits
- Pro limits usage per day and per week, and neither allowance is published
- Customer data may be used for training by default; the opt-out is on paid plans
Editor's assessment from vendor documentation and published pricing
Pricing
Devin pricing
Devin's paid plans start at $20/month, above the $19 median across the 14 tools in our AI Coding Tools ranking. A free plan is available.
Free
$0
Free plan
For one person
- Light agent quota
- Limited model availability
- Unlimited inline edits
- Unlimited Tab completions
Usage: Light quota for agent use.
Pro
$20/mo
per month, one user
For one person
- Daily and weekly usage quota
- Full model availability
- Cloud agents (Devin Cloud)
- Extra usage at API pricing
Usage: Quota refreshes daily and weekly. Usage past it is paid from prepaid on-demand credits, consumed at API pricing; purchased credits never expire.
Max
$200/mo
per month, one user
For one person
- Everything in Pro
- Much larger weekly quota
- No daily cap
Usage: Weekly allowance only, no daily cap; overage from on-demand credits at API pricing.
Teams
$40/mo
per full seat, per month ($80 minimum)
Minimum 2 seats
- Up to 200 users
- Centralised billing
- Admin dashboard with analytics
- Free flex seats on shared credits
- Priority support
Usage: Every Teams account pays at least $80 a month. Full seats are $40 each (2 seats = $80, 3 = $120); below two seats the difference is charged as shared usage credits. Flex seats are free and draw on the team's shared credits.
Enterprise
Custom
Tailored pricing for larger teams
- SAML/OIDC SSO
- Centralised enterprise admin controls
- Dedicated deployment option
- Dedicated account management
Usage: Billed in Agent Compute Units at the rate in your order form.
Checked against Cognition AI, Inc.'s pricing page on October 3, 2026 · see the full breakdown
Capabilities
Devin features
Checked against the same feature list as every other tool in its category.
Platform
- Included:Built-in hosting & deployRuns and deploys the application without configuring separate infrastructure.New apps only; not on Enterprise
Team & Governance
- Included:No training on your codeBusiness tiers exclude your source from model training by default.Enterprise only; Teams admins must opt out
- Not included:Self-hosted or VPC optionRuns inside your own infrastructure for regulated or air-gapped environments.
- Included:Team admin & SSOCentral seat management, policy controls and single sign-on.SSO on Enterprise plan
Code Generation
- Included:In-editor chatAsk questions about the code you are looking at without leaving the editor.
- Not included:Inline autocompleteMulti-line suggestions as you type, accepted with a keystroke.
- Included:Test generationWrites unit and integration tests against existing code.
Codebase Awareness
- Included:Custom project rulesPersistent instructions describing your conventions, applied to every request.
- Included:Tool & MCP integrationConnects to external tools and data sources so the assistant can read docs, tickets or a database.
- Included:Whole-repository indexingIndexes the entire codebase so suggestions follow your existing patterns and reuse your helpers.
Agent Autonomy
- Included:Automated PR reviewReviews pull requests and comments on problems before a human does.
- Included:Background & async agentsWorks on a task on its own while you do something else, then reports back.
- Included:Multi-file editsApplies a single instruction coherently across several files at once.
- Included:Runs commands & testsExecutes builds and test suites, reads the output and fixes what it broke.
Ecosystem
Devin integrations
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Slack
- Linear
- Jira
Videos
Watch Devin in action
Product walkthroughs from Devin's own YouTube channel.
How to Automate Repetitive Engineering Tasks in Plain English with Devin | 4 Powerful Examples
Published by CognitionWatch on YouTube
Stacked PRs in Devin: Ship Big Features as Small, Reviewable PRs
Published by CognitionWatch on YouTube
Alternatives
Top Devin alternatives
Tools that do the same job, from the same category.
Fit check
Will Devin fit your team?
Support
- Email support
- Live chat
- Knowledge base
Training
- Documentation
- Video tutorials
Deployment
- Web
Typical users
- Small businesses
- Mid-size companies
- Enterprises
FAQs
Devin FAQs
Written by our editorial team.
How much does Devin cost?
Devin is free on a plan with limited usage, and Pro costs $20 a month for one user. Max costs $200 a month, and Teams costs $40 per full seat a month with an $80 monthly minimum and up to 200 users. Enterprise is priced by quote and billed in Agent Compute Units. The same plans cover Devin Desktop, formerly Windsurf. See Devin pricing for what each plan includes.
How is Devin usage measured?
By the work each session performs, priced from the tokens the model uses at its API list price. Planning, gathering context, browsing and running code all count, and faster model variants cost more. On self-serve plans, sessions spend the included quota first and then prepaid on-demand credits. Pro and Teams full seats have daily and weekly allowances, Max has only a weekly one, and a session idle for 30 minutes sleeps and stops consuming usage.
Does Devin train on your code?
It can by default. Cognition's security documentation says customer data may be used for model training unless you opt out, which paid plans can do at any time on the Data Controls settings page. Opting out also turns on zero data retention with Cognition's model providers. Enterprise customers' data is never used for training without their written consent. The same page says the code and other output Devin produces is the customer's intellectual property.
What tasks is Devin best at?
Well-defined tasks with a way to check the result. Cognition's guidance is that if a task would take you three hours or less, Devin can most likely do it, and that tasks with test suites, CI checks or other verifiable outcomes give the best results. It lists parallel ticket work, migrations, refactors and repetitive engineering chores as strengths, and recommends splitting larger projects into smaller sessions. For a different working style, see Devin vs Claude Code.
Where can you start a Devin session?
From several places. You can start one in the Devin web app, in Slack or Microsoft Teams, by assigning a Jira or Linear ticket to Devin, or by commenting /devin on an open GitHub pull request. Devin CLI, the Devin API and Devin Desktop can start sessions as well, and PagerDuty incidents can trigger automations. Devin then works in repositories hosted on GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket or Azure DevOps.
Sources & methodology
Product details come from Cognition AI, Inc.'s public website and documentation (United States). Every plan and price was checked against the vendor's pricing page on October 3, 2026. We haven't tested this product hands-on; the verdict is a desk assessment. How we research and rank tools
- Founded 2023
- 1 language supported
- cognition.ai
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