Devin

What it's good for

• 1

  Knocking out well-scoped tickets (dependency bumps, test backfill, small features) without supervision

• 2

  Parallelizing routine engineering work across many tasks at once

• 3

  Migrations and repetitive refactors that are tedious but mechanical

• 4

  Triaging and attempting a first-pass fix on bugs before a human reviews

• 5

  Spinning up prototypes from a written spec

Pricing

• Core

  Pay-as-you-go autonomous work

  $20/mo

• Team

  250 ACUs (~62.5 hrs) plus collaboration

  $500/mo

• Enterprise

  VPC deployment and SSO

  Custom

How to use it

Brief Devin the way you would a junior engineer: clear scope, the repo, and a definition of done. It plans, writes code in its own environment, runs tests, and opens a PR for review. Watch your ACU burn on the dashboard, smaller scoped tasks cost less, and keep a human reviewing every PR. Reach for Cursor or Copilot when you want to stay at the keyboard; reach for Devin when you want to hand the task off entirely.

Pros & cons

Frequently asked questions

• How much does Devin cost?

  Core starts at $20 a month, pay-as-you-go on autonomous work. Team is $500 a month and bundles 250 ACUs (about 62.5 hours of autonomous work) plus collaboration features. Enterprise is custom and adds VPC deployment and SSO. Work is metered in ACUs, where one ACU is roughly 15 minutes of autonomous work.

• What is an ACU in Devin?

  An ACU (Agent Compute Unit) is how Devin meters autonomous work. One ACU is roughly 15 minutes of the agent planning, coding, and running commands. The Team plan's 250 ACUs work out to about 62.5 hours, and smaller, well-scoped tasks burn fewer ACUs.

• Devin vs Cursor: which should I use?

  Cursor keeps you at the keyboard with tight in-editor control. Devin is the opposite: you hand it a whole task and it plans, writes code, runs commands, and opens a PR without a human at the keyboard. Reach for Cursor when you want to drive, and Devin when you want to delegate a well-scoped task entirely.

• What is Devin best for?

  Well-scoped, repetitive engineering: dependency bumps, test backfill, mechanical migrations and refactors, and first-pass bug fixes. It is less suited to ambiguous architecture calls, where a human in the loop still wins. Brief it like a junior engineer with clear scope and a definition of done, and review every PR.

• Does Devin support private deployment and SSO?

  Yes, on the Enterprise tier. That adds VPC deployment so the agent runs inside your environment, plus SSO. The Core and Team tiers run on Devin's hosted setup.

More

• Devin docs

Alternatives to Devin

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• Replit Agent

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• GitHub Copilot

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• GitHub Copilot

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