Devin vs Qwen Code: Which AI Agent Is Better?
An in-depth comparison of Devin and Qwen Code across output quality, autonomy, reliability, speed, value, and ease of use. Vote for your favorite.
An in-depth comparison of Devin and Qwen Code across output quality, autonomy, reliability, speed, value, and ease of use. Vote for your favorite.
Either way, you pay for the model calls. A median coding-agent day on our gateway is 95 requests and 8.6 million tokens. The table prices every step at one model’s rate.
Qwen Code runs on Standard Compute, where each step goes to the cheapest model that can do it: routine steps go to efficient open models, hard ones to frontier models such as Claude Fable 5.1 or GPT-6 Astra.
| Model | Typical day | Busy day |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Opus 5.5 | $7.34 | $59.10 |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | $3.67 | $29.55 |
| GPT-6 Luna | $0.23 | $2.43 |
Fixed monthly plans from $19. Eligible new accounts can try $0.25 of compute first, no card. Trial terms
Pick a winner in each category. You can change your vote anytime.
DevinQwen CodeChoose Devin if you are teams that want to delegate well-scoped engineering tickets end-to-end. Choose Qwen Code if you are developers who want a free, Claude Code-style terminal agent that runs Qwen models next to any other provider.
Editorially this matchup is a dead heat: each agent leads in 3 of our six categories. On price, Devin runs free / $20 pro / $200 max / teams from $80 and is proprietary; Qwen Code runs free (apache 2.0), bring your own provider and is open source.
What it costs to run Qwen Code
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4 options compared, with prices and limits
Standard Compute sends each step to the cheapest model that can do it, on providers we vet for price, uptime and speed. Plans start at $19 a month, and eligible new accounts can try $0.25 of compute with no card. Choose your agent below to connect.
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. Self-serve plans are Free, Pro at $20 a month and Max at $200, each with a daily and weekly usage allowance and paid extra usage, so heavy use still costs real money. Cognition bought Windsurf in 2025 and now ships it as Devin Desktop, alongside a Devin CLI.
Qwen Code is Alibaba's Qwen team's open-source coding agent. It was originally based on Gemini CLI v0.8.2, stopped syncing with upstream at v0.1 and has been developed on its own since, with frequent releases (v0.25.2 on October 15, 2026). It ships subagents, agent teams, skills, hooks, MCP, plan mode, LSP and git worktrees, plus VS Code, JetBrains and Zed plugins, a desktop app and Telegram, DingTalk, WeChat and Feishu channels. Unlike Gemini CLI it speaks the OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini APIs, so any compatible provider works through modelProviders in ~/.qwen/settings.json. The free Qwen OAuth tier ended on April 15, 2026: the tool is still free, and the models come from Alibaba's Coding Plan or Token Plan, a built-in third-party provider, a local model or a custom provider.
Qwen Code runs on Standard Compute
