Devin
Autonomous software engineer that ships pull requests from a single ticket.
Overview
Devin by Cognition: Autonomous AI Software Engineer for Real Engineering Teams
Devin by Cognition is an autonomous AI software engineer that lives in the cloud, runs in parallel, and ships real pull requests. Assign Devin a ticket from Linear, GitHub, or Slack, and it spins up a sandboxed environment, reads the codebase, plans the change, runs the tests, and opens a PR for human review. Engineering teams use Devin to clear backlogs of small-to-medium tasks, modernize legacy code, write tests, and unblock senior engineers from work that does not need their attention.
Key Features:
- Autonomous ticket-to-PR workflow with sandboxed cloud environments
- Linear, GitHub, Slack, and Jira integrations for assignment and review
- Parallel cloud agents so multiple tasks run at once
- Reads the full codebase, plans changes, and runs the test suite before opening a PR
- ACU usage credits for predictable, metered consumption
- Devin Wiki: maintained engineering knowledge base over your repo
- SSO, SOC 2, audit logs, and enterprise-grade security controls
- On-prem and VPC deployment options for regulated teams
- Sessions you can pause, resume, share, and review like a teammate
Ideal Use Case:
Devin is built for engineering teams that want to ship more without hiring more, especially those drowning in small-to-medium backlog tickets. Senior engineers offload boilerplate and grunt work, platform teams hand off migrations, and managers measurably increase throughput by running agents in parallel.
Why Use Devin:
- Convert backlog tickets into reviewed pull requests without spending engineer time
- Run dozens of agents in parallel for sprint-scale leverage
- Get a real PR with tests, not just a code suggestion
- Plug into Linear, GitHub, Slack, and Jira where work already happens
- Use SSO, SOC 2, audit logs, and on-prem options for regulated environments
- Pay per ACU instead of per seat for predictable scaling
FAQ
Is Devin a chat assistant or an agent? Devin is a fully autonomous cloud agent. You assign it a task and it works asynchronously until it opens a PR.
How does Devin charge? Devin Core starts at $20/month with usage-based ACU credits, Team is $500/month, and Enterprise is custom.
What integrations does Devin support? Linear, GitHub, Slack, Jira, and most major source control and ticketing tools.
Is Devin secure for enterprise codebases? Yes. Devin offers SSO, SOC 2 Type II, audit logs, role-based access, and on-prem or VPC deployment options.
How is Devin different from Cursor or Copilot? Cursor and Copilot are pair-programmers in your IDE. Devin is an autonomous teammate that owns a ticket end to end and opens the PR.
FAQ
What does Devin do? Devin is an autonomous software engineer that takes a single ticket and ships pull requests automatically. It handles the end-to-end coding workflow so developers can focus on higher-level tasks.
Who should use Devin? Devin is designed for software development teams looking to automate routine coding work and accelerate their development cycle. It's particularly useful for teams managing large backlogs of coding tasks.
How much does Devin cost? Devin operates on a paid model. Visit the Devin pricing page for current plans and details on how to get started.
How does Devin compare to similar tools? Devin differs from alternatives like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and v0 by focusing on autonomous, end-to-end task completion rather than code assistance or snippet generation. It takes ownership of entire tickets and delivers finished pull requests.
FAQ
What does Devin do? Devin is an autonomous software engineer that takes a single ticket and ships pull requests automatically. It handles the end-to-end coding workflow so developers can focus on higher-level tasks.
Who should use Devin? Devin is designed for software development teams looking to automate routine coding work and accelerate their development cycle. It's particularly useful for teams managing large backlogs of coding tasks.
How much does Devin cost? Devin operates on a paid model. Visit the Devin pricing page for current plans and details on how to get started.
How does Devin compare to similar tools? Devin differs from alternatives like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and v0 by focusing on autonomous, end-to-end task completion rather than code assistance or snippet generation. It takes ownership of entire tickets and delivers finished pull requests.
tl;dr:
Devin is an autonomous AI software engineer that picks up a ticket and ships a pull request, running in parallel in the cloud. It is the closest thing on the market to hiring a junior engineer who never sleeps, and a serious productivity multiplier for engineering teams.
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Editorial Review
Our take on Devin.
The agent you assign a ticket to rather than pair with, now shipping weekly and bundled with the editor that used to be Windsurf; read the data-controls page before you paste proprietary code, because training on it is the default.
What works
- Fastest release cadence in the category, with weekly notes through September 2026
- Full path from ticket to pull request, plus an editor, CLI and review tooling
- SOC 2 Type II and zero-data-retention arrangements available
What doesn't
- Training on your data is the default; opt-out is paid-only and admin-gated on teams
- Quota-plus-credit billing and order-form enterprise pricing make spend hard to forecast
Devin takes a ticket from Linear, GitHub or Slack, spins up a sandbox, reads the codebase, plans, runs the tests and opens a pull request. Since June 2026 it also ships Devin Desktop, the Windsurf editor renamed and delivered as an update, plus a CLI, a review product and DeepWiki for codebase documentation. Cognition, the company behind it, is the fastest-moving vendor in the category, with release notes landing weekly through September 2026.
The packaging now reflects production use: a free tier with limited usage, individual plans on daily and weekly quotas, team seats with shared on-demand credits, and enterprise contracts metered in compute units. That last part is the first caution: quota-plus-credit billing makes spend hard to forecast, and the enterprise unit price lives on an order form, not a web page.
The second caution matters more. Cognition's own documentation says that training on your data is the default, that the opt-out is available only on paid plans, and that on team plans only an administrator can flip it. The security page is otherwise strong, with SOC 2 Type II and zero-retention arrangements with model providers available, but a developer on the free tier is contributing their code to the vendor's models whether they noticed or not. For an engineering team that wants to delegate whole tickets, it is the most complete option; go in with the data setting decided.
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