Devin
Autonomous AI software engineer that takes a ticket and returns a pull request.
About
Devin by Cognition is a cloud-hosted autonomous coding agent: give it a Jira ticket, bug report, or feature request and it plans, codes, tests, debugs, and opens a PR inside a sandboxed environment with its own terminal, editor, and browser. It re-plans when blocked, iterates on failing tests by itself, and builds repo knowledge over time. Cognition also acquired Windsurf in 2025 and reports wide enterprise use. Pricing is usage-based from a $20/month entry tier, but costs can climb fast at scale, complex tasks still take a long time, and the product is fully closed with limited transparency into its reasoning.
What it can do
- Autonomous task execution from ticket to PR
- Sandboxed environment with terminal, editor, and browser
- Dynamic re-planning when blocked
- Autonomous error recovery on failing builds and tests
- Devin Search and repo Wiki
- Slack, GitHub, Linear, and Jira integrations
- IDE extension for handoff and review
Setup
- Sign up at devin.ai and connect your GitHub organization.
- Start a session from the web app, Slack, or the IDE extension.
- Describe the task and how to verify it; Devin works in its sandbox.
- Review the resulting PR and give feedback in the session thread.
Prerequisites
A Devin account with usage credits; GitHub repository access.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 7/10
Scored 7/10 (metrics tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: High-profile adoption: Goldman Sachs pilot, Nubank case study; Cognition reported $1B+ annualized revenue run rate in 2026.; Very actively developed: Devin 2.0, SWE-1.x custom models, Windsurf acquisition in 2025.; Fully closed and proprietary; no public repository; minimal transparency into agent reasoning.; Honest caveats: usage-based ACU pricing gets expensive at scale; long execution times on complex tasks.. License: Proprietary SaaS; no public source license..
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 8.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 9.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 1.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 7.0/10
- · High-profile adoption: Goldman Sachs pilot, Nubank case study; Cognition reported $1B+ annualized revenue run rate in 2026.
- · Very actively developed: Devin 2.0, SWE-1.x custom models, Windsurf acquisition in 2025.
- · Fully closed and proprietary; no public repository; minimal transparency into agent reasoning.
- · Honest caveats: usage-based ACU pricing gets expensive at scale; long execution times on complex tasks.
Sources
Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.