Side-by-side comparison of features, pricing, and capabilities
The first fully autonomous AI software engineer that takes tasks end-to-end
Anthropic's agentic CLI for autonomous coding directly in your terminal
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| Rating | ★★☆☆☆ | ★★★★★ |
| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| Pricing Details | Teams plan at $500/mo includes 250 ACUs (agent compute units). Enterprise pricing custom. Usage-based pricing available. | Requires a Claude API key or Max subscription. Usage-based API pricing. Max plan at $100/mo or $200/mo for higher limits. |
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Teams plan at $500/mo includes 250 ACUs (agent compute units). Enterprise pricing custom. Usage-based pricing available.
Devin, built by Cognition AI, is positioned as the first fully autonomous AI software engineer. Give it a task - fix this bug, build this feature, deploy this service - and it opens a terminal, writes code, runs tests, browses documentation, and iterates until the job is done, all without human intervention between steps. The benchmarks are impressive. Devin resolves real GitHub issues at a rate that embarrasses prior autonomous coding attempts. In practice, it handles well-defined, contained tasks reliably, though complex architectural decisions and ambiguous requirements still benefit from human oversight. At $500/mo for early access tiers, Devin targets teams willing to pay for genuine task offload rather than assisted coding. The category it's building - agentic software engineering - is where the entire AI coding space is heading.
Claude Code is Anthropic's command-line coding agent that operates directly in your terminal. Unlike editor-based assistants, it reads your project files, runs commands, writes code, and manages git workflows autonomously. It's designed for developers who prefer working in the terminal and want an AI that can handle multi-step engineering tasks end-to-end. The tool shines on complex tasks that require understanding broad project context - migrating APIs, refactoring across dozens of files, debugging failing test suites, or implementing features that touch multiple layers of a stack. It creates commits, runs tests, and iterates on failures without manual intervention. Claude Code uses the Claude model family (Sonnet for speed, Opus for complex reasoning) and supports extended thinking for particularly challenging problems. It integrates with your existing development workflow rather than requiring you to switch editors or adopt new tools.