Cursor vs Devin

Cursor

Still the editor most teams reach for when they want agents working inside a real IDE, with cloud agents, PR review and a CLI under one login. Since the SpaceX purchase the price list has been rebuilt around a usage pool shared with Grok: the old $20 Pro plan is gone, the cheapest tier only runs Grok models, and anyone attached to Claude, GPT or Gemini now pays for those separately at API list price.

Pros

• +Agents work with repository-wide context in the editor, the terminal and the cloud
• +Model menu still spans in-house Composer plus Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and xAI models
• +Usage allowance refreshes weekly rather than monthly, so one heavy day does not drain the month
• +Free tier remains for trying agent workflows
• +SOC 2, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 certifications listed for enterprise procurement

Cons

• −The $8 Plus tier is restricted to Grok models, so the realistic entry price for a multi-model workflow is $30
• −Third-party models are no longer included in any plan and bill at API list price on top
• −Pricing has been restructured twice within a year, which makes budgeting a guess
• −Ownership moved to SpaceX in 2026, so roadmap and data policies may shift again

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 Cursor cheaper than Devin?

On published entry prices, Cursor starts lower — $8/mo against $20/mo for Devin. Entry price is the lowest paid plan as we last verified it; what each plan includes differs.

Does Cursor or Devin have a free tier?

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

Which has a public API, Cursor or Devin?

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