Claude Code vs Devin

Claude Code is a coding agent with chat assistance, terminal access, and codebase indexing. It supports VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Cursor, and Devin Desktop, with agent mode, desktop app control, browser control, screen understanding, and human approval controls. Listed platforms include web, Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and a Chrome extension; deployment is hybrid. A free Claude plan is available, but Claude Code is not part of it. Pro includes Claude Code for $17 a month with an annual subscription discount and $200 billed up front. That plan also lists more usage, Projects, and more Claude models. Max 5x is $100 a month and lists five times Pro's usage and higher output limits. Max 20x is $200 a month, with 20 times Pro's usage and higher output limits. The maker was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Devin is a coding tool that Cognition describes as an autonomous software engineer: it can plan, write, test and ship production code. Its workflows include migrations, refactors, documentation, scheduled chores, issue triage, bug fixes, testing and performance optimization. Devin runs in the cloud or on a user's machine, tests in its own browser and works toward a pull request ready to merge; larger tasks can be divided among parallel cloud agents. For local work, Devin CLI runs in the terminal on macOS, Linux and Windows, while Devin Desktop provides an IDE with syntax highlighting, autocomplete, debugging tools, agent fleet management and shared context. Listed capabilities also include code completion, chat assistance, codebase indexing and terminal access. Integrations and workflows involve tools including GitHub, Linear, Slack, Teams, Datadog, Sentry, Jira, Confluence, AWS, Google Drive and PostgreSQL. The free plan has limited usage; Pro costs $20 a month and Max costs $200 a month. Paid-plan allowances refresh daily and weekly, with extra usage available at API pricing.