Devin vs Kilo Code — Which AI Agent Is Better?
An in-depth comparison of Devin and Kilo Code across output quality, autonomy, reliability, speed, value, and ease of use. Vote for your favorite.
An in-depth comparison of Devin and Kilo Code 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.
DevinKilo CodeChoose Devin if you are teams that want to delegate well-scoped engineering tickets end-to-end. Choose Kilo Code if you are vS Code users who want an open-source AI coding assistant.
In our editorial scoring, Kilo Code leads in 3 of six categories (reliability, speed and value), while Devin leads in 2 (output quality and autonomy). On price, Devin runs $20/mo entry + usage (acus) and is proprietary; Kilo Code runs free / pro via standard compute and is open source.
Give your chosen agent more room to build, test and iterate. Standard Compute stretches your compute through automatic provider selection and smart routing. Plans start at $19/month with $20 in monthly compute. Choose your agent below to connect. Eligible new accounts can try $0.25 of compute with no card.
See the trial and activation steps →
Weighing the cost of running it? Compare API plans for Kilo Code
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.
Kilo Code is an open-source VS Code extension that brings powerful AI coding assistance directly into your editor. It supports multi-file editing, intelligent refactoring, and context-aware code generation. Works with any OpenAI-compatible API.
Kilo Code runs on Standard Compute
