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Claude vs Devin

A side-by-side look at pricing, capabilities, pros, cons, and our editorial scores.

 
Claude
Writing
Devin
Agents
TaglineAnthropic's flagship assistant for long-form writing, analysis, and coding.Cognition Labs' "autonomous software engineer" agent.
CategoryWritingAgents
PricingFreemium· Free tier; Pro $20/mo; Max $100–$200/moPaid· From $500/mo Core
ModelClaude Opus / SonnetMulti-model (Claude / GPT configurable)
Editorial score9.6 / 107.8 / 10
Use cases
long-form writingsummarizationresearchcoding
autonomous codingticket resolution
Pros
  • Best-in-class long-context reasoning
  • Excellent at following style guidelines
  • Projects + Artifacts UX
  • 1M-token context on Sonnet
  • Genuinely runs end-to-end coding loops
  • Visible reasoning/process
  • Useful for grunt tickets
  • Replay for code review
Cons
  • No real-time browsing by default
  • Image generation limited
  • Region availability varies
  • Expensive
  • Quality drops on complex / ambiguous tasks
Websiteclaude.aidevin.ai
Pick Claude if
  • Best-in-class long-context reasoning
  • Excellent at following style guidelines
  • Projects + Artifacts UX
  • 1M-token context on Sonnet
Pick Devin if
  • Genuinely runs end-to-end coding loops
  • Visible reasoning/process
  • Useful for grunt tickets
  • Replay for code review