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Devin
Cognition's autonomous cloud software engineer: tasks from Slack/Linear/GitHub/web run in a Devin VM and come back as PRs. Now also a Devin CLI and Devin Desktop (ex-Windsurf).
devin.ai/Active
Frequent posts on devin.ai/blog (Devin Oncall 2026-10-15, cost controls 2026-10-19, vulnerability fixes 2026-10-22). (checked 2026-10-25)
In Coding agents
Where it stands apart
- Where do you primarily use it? in a browser (a local web UI, a web app, or a cloud service) (5% of 21 others)
- How does finished work usually come back to you? a branch or pull request from a background run (0% of 21 others)
- Whose models can you use? Pick the first that applies. several vendors' models, only as served by the tool (19% of 21 others)
- Where do the commands it runs execute by default? in a remote VM or container run by the vendor (0% of 21 others)
What it shares with most of the community
- Is it actively maintained? active (71% of 21 others)
- How is it mainly sustained? company with a paid product, tier, or ads (71% of 21 others)
- Who is it for? developers (95% of 21 others)
- Can users add their own tools through MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers? yes (95% of 21 others)
Nearest neighbors
- Cursor 76% of 17 shared answers match
- Amp 71% of 17 shared answers match
- Factory Droid 65% of 17 shared answers match
Every answer
| Question | Answer | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Is it actively maintained? | active | source 2026-10-25 |
| How is the main thing licensed? | proprietary or closed source | source 2026-10-25 |
| How is it mainly sustained? | company with a paid product, tier, or ads | source 2026-10-25 |
| Can it run entirely on your own device or infrastructure, without the maker's servers? | partly (some features need the maker's servers) Cloud-first. Devin Outposts run workers on your own machines and Devin CLI runs locally, but the service is hosted. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Do you need an account to use it? | account required Sign up at app.devin.ai to access. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Who is it for? | developers Increasingly also triggered by support/ops (Pylon, PagerDuty, Teams). | source 2026-10-25 |
| Which shared standard or format does it mainly build on? | AGENTS.md 'AGENTS.md is the recommended approach for project rules.' | source 2026-10-26 |
| Where do you primarily use it? | stands apart in a browser (a local web UI, a web app, or a cloud service) | source 2026-10-25 |
| How does finished work usually come back to you? | stands apart a branch or pull request from a background run Cloud sessions return PRs; Devin CLI covers local work. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Whose models can you use? Pick the first that applies. | stands apart several vendors' models, only as served by the tool Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Cognition plus open models; ChatGPT plan linking since 2026-09-29. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Is pointing it at a model running on your own machine (e.g. Ollama, LM Studio) a documented setup? | no | source 2026-10-25 |
| Out of the box, does it ask you before editing files or running shell commands? | doesn't ask (a sandbox or automatic reviewer may still block risky actions) Cloud Devin acts autonomously in its VM; local-machine actions need per-call approval. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Where do the commands it runs execute by default? | stands apart in a remote VM or container run by the vendor 'Devin keeps its VM'. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Can users add their own tools through MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers? | yes MCP marketplace and custom STDIO/SSE/HTTP servers. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Does it read project instructions from AGENTS.md? | yes, AGENTS.md is its main instructions file 'AGENTS.md is the recommended approach for project rules.' | source 2026-10-25 |
| Does it use the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) for agent-editor connections? | yes, as an agent that editors can drive Devin CLI runs in Zed, JetBrains and Xcode via ACP; Devin Desktop also hosts ACP agents (see Windsurf). | source 2026-10-25 |
| When you first set it up, how do you pay for the models it uses by default? | a subscription plan from the tool's maker Pro $20 includes Devin Cloud; extra usage at API pricing. | source 2026-10-25 |
Sources
This page was derived from:
- Web page · devin.ai/ · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · devin.ai/blog · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · devin.ai/pricing · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · docs.devin.ai/cli/acp/zed.md · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · docs.devin.ai/cli/extensibility/rules.md · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · docs.devin.ai/cli/models.md · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · docs.devin.ai/llms.txt · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · docs.devin.ai/onboard-devin/agents-md.md · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · docs.devin.ai/work-with-devin/local-hands.md · read 2026-10-25
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