Amp vs Devin — Which AI Agent Is Better?
An in-depth comparison of Amp and Devin across output quality, autonomy, reliability, speed, value, and ease of use. Vote for your favorite.
An in-depth comparison of Amp and Devin across output quality, autonomy, reliability, speed, value, and ease of use. Vote for your favorite.
Pick a winner in each category — you can change your vote anytime.
AmpDevinChoose Amp if you are teams that want maximum-capability agentic coding and will pay for tokens at cost. Choose Devin if you are teams that want to delegate well-scoped engineering tickets end-to-end.
In our editorial scoring, Amp leads in 3 of six categories (reliability, speed and value), while Devin leads in 2 (autonomy and ease of use). On price, Amp runs usage-based credits / free tier and is proprietary; Devin runs $20/mo entry + usage (acus) and is proprietary.
Amp is Sourcegraph's take on agentic coding: no model picker, no knobs — it always runs frontier models with maximum reasoning and leans into autonomy. Work happens in shareable threads across the VS Code extension and CLI, with subagents for parallelizable work and team visibility into how colleagues prompt. It's deliberately opinionated and token-hungry; credits are consumed at cost, so sustained heavy use gets expensive, and there's no BYO-key escape hatch.
Devin is Cognition's fully autonomous software engineer: give it a task in Slack, Linear, or the web IDE and it plans, writes code, runs tests, and opens a pull request in its own cloud sandbox — including several sessions in parallel. It shines on well-scoped, repetitive engineering work (migrations, test coverage, small features) and improved markedly through its 2.x releases, but it remains weaker on ambiguous, novel tasks, and ACU-based usage pricing means heavy use costs real money. Cognition also acquired Windsurf in 2025, folding its IDE technology into the same product family.
Whichever AI agent you choose, Standard Compute gives you unlimited LLM compute at one flat monthly price. No rate limits, no per-token billing.
