Devin vs Claude Code

Side-by-side comparison of features, pricing, and capabilities

Devin

★★☆☆☆ Paid

The first fully autonomous AI software engineer that takes tasks end-to-end

Claude Code

★★★★★ Paid

Anthropic's agentic CLI for autonomous coding directly in your terminal

DevinClaude Code
Rating ★★☆☆☆ 2.1/5★★★★★ 4.7/5
Pricing PaidPaid
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.
Category Code AssistantsCode Assistants
Key Features
  • Autonomous end-to-end coding
  • Terminal access and command execution
  • Browser access for documentation
  • GitHub integration
  • Test writing and running
  • Iterative debugging
  • Terminal-native workflow
  • Autonomous multi-step tasks
  • Git integration
  • Test execution & iteration
  • Extended thinking
  • Multi-file editing
  • Project-wide context
Tags
autonomous-agent end-to-end software-engineering agentic enterprise
coding terminal agentic cli autonomous

Pricing Comparison

Devin

Teams plan at $500/mo includes 250 ACUs (agent compute units). Enterprise pricing custom. Usage-based pricing available.

Claude Code

API Usage Usage-based/mo
Max (Pro) $20/mo
Max (Team) $25/mo

About Devin

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.

About Claude Code

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.