Ara vs Devin

Ara

Ara acts like an async engineer you assign issues to: it reproduces the bug, writes the fix, and hands back a pull request with evidence instead of just a diff. The evidence bundle of recordings, logs and tests is meant to cut down the review overhead of trusting an agent's output blindly. It fits teams already living in GitHub issues more than someone wanting an in-editor autocomplete replacement.

Pros

• +Attaches screen recordings and logs to every pull request it opens
• +Supports multiple underlying models (Claude, GPT, Grok, Kimi)
• +Runs from browser, desktop, CLI or mobile rather than one client only
• +Team pricing doesn't scale per seat

Cons

• −No public breakdown of what each model actually costs against the monthly balance
• −Free tier is a one-time credit, not an ongoing free plan

Devin

Devin is the agent to hand a whole ticket to and walk away from, and the $20 Pro tier makes that affordable to try for the first time. The quota is the catch: a long autonomous session can exhaust a plan quickly, and once it does you are paying API rates, so it suits teams that batch well-scoped tasks rather than developers who want a tireless pair programmer in the loop.

Pros

• +End-to-end autonomy: plans, codes, tests and opens the pull request from its own cloud machine
• +Fans one large task out across parallel agents and manages them itself
• +Native Slack, Linear, Jira and GitHub integration plus Desktop and CLI clients
• +Entry price dropped to $20 a month, far below the original enterprise-only positioning

Cons

• −Quotas are described only qualitatively ('light', 'generous'), so cost per task is hard to predict
• −Overage is billed at API pricing, which is where a runaway agent session gets expensive
• −Team tier adds a flat $80 a month on top of $40 per full user
• −Pages are heavily client-rendered; the terms live on cognition.com, not devin.ai

Is Ara cheaper than Devin?

Both publish the same entry price, $20/mo. The difference is what each plan includes, which the fact table above sets side by side.

Does Ara or Devin have a free tier?

Both: Ara has a free tier, and Devin has a free tier.

Which has a public API, Ara or Devin?

Devin ships a public API, as of our last verification. A public API for Ara is not confirmed by us — check its developer docs before you plan an integration.