Cline vs Devin — Which AI Agent Is Better?
An in-depth comparison of Cline and Devin across output quality, autonomy, reliability, speed, value, and ease of use. Vote for your favorite.
An in-depth comparison of Cline 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. 2 votes cast so far.
ClineDevinChoose Cline if you are developers who want a powerful, safety-gated agent inside the editor they already use. Choose Devin if you are teams that want to delegate well-scoped engineering tickets end-to-end.
In our editorial scoring, Cline leads in 3 of six categories (reliability, speed and value), while Devin leads in 2 (autonomy and ease of use). On price, Cline runs free (byo api key) and is open source; Devin runs $20/mo entry + usage (acus) and is proprietary.
Across 2 community votes on this matchup, Cline currently leads in 2 of six categories. Cast your own vote above to move the needle.
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Cline is the open-source coding agent that defined the in-editor agent category, with 5M+ installs across VS Code, JetBrains, and Cursor itself. Its Plan/Act modes separate thinking from doing — the agent proposes a plan you approve before it touches files or runs commands. Apache-2.0 licensed with full bring-your-own-key model freedom, MCP integration, and deployment options up to on-prem and air-gapped for enterprises.
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.
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