Devin
Verified Oct 15, 2026 ActiveAutonomous software engineer working in a cloud VM
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $20/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
Free $0/month with a light quota; Pro $20/month; Max $200/month with 'significantly higher quotas'; Team $80/month plus $40/month per full user with their own quota and Devin Desktop access; Enterprise by demo. Extra usage beyond a paid plan's quota is bought at API pricing, and the page notes Devin Desktop and CLI are free through 16 October 2026.
Use tool ↗About Devin
Devin is Cognition's autonomous coding agent: give it a task and it plans, writes, tests and opens a pull request from its own cloud workspace with a shell, editor and browser, and a large job can be split across parallel cloud agents that Devin manages and reports on. It is assigned work from Slack, Linear, Jira and GitHub the way a teammate would be, now also ships as Devin Desktop and a CLI, and routes work through a 'Fusion' mode that pairs a frontier model with cheaper ones. Plans run from a free tier with a light quota through Pro at $20 a month to Max at $200, with team and enterprise tiers priced per full user; overage is bought at API rates. Cognition AI, Inc. is based in San Francisco.
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026
Verified sources
- Free $0/month, Pro $20/month, Max $200/month ('everything in Pro, plus significantly higher quotas'), Team $80/month plus $40/month per full user, Enterprise 'Let's talk'; 'If you do go beyond your included usage on a paid plan, you can purchase extra usage which is consumed at API pricing'; 'Free in Devin Desktop and CLI through October 16, 2026' (15 October 2026)devin.ai ↗
- 'Parallel cloud agents for serious engineering teams'; 'Delegate a big task, then Devin splits it across parallel cloud agents, manages them, and reports back'; Fusion mode; Slack, Linear, Jira and GitHub referenced throughout (15 October 2026)devin.ai ↗
- Cognition describes Devin as 'the first autonomous software engineer' that 'plans, writes, tests, and ships production code on its own'; Devin 2.2 announced 24 February 2026; Devin Desktop & CLI and Devin in Windsurf listed as updates; customers include Goldman Sachs, Mercedes-Benz, Nubank (15 October 2026)cognition.com ↗
- Platform terms name Cognition AI, Inc., 550 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, governed by New York law, last updated 30 June 2026 (15 October 2026)cognition.com ↗
Is Devin legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Dec 6, 2022 (3 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar MarkMonitor Inc., looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Dec 11, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 15, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- Cognition AI, Inc., United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of 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
Best for
- Engineering teams delegating well-specified tickets such as migrations, test coverage and dependency upgrades
- Organisations that want agents assigned from Slack, Linear or Jira and reviewed as pull requests
- Large codebases where a task can be fanned out across parallel cloud agents
Not for
- Developers who want an in-editor assistant for line-by-line work, where Cursor or Copilot are cheaper
- Teams that cannot run code in a vendor cloud workspace, since Devin's sandbox is Cognition-hosted
Watch out: The $20 Pro plan is a quota, not a seat: autonomous runs on a hard task can burn through it, and anything beyond is metered at API rates, so watch usage during the first week before rolling it out to a team.
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