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Cursor vs Devin

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

 
Cursor
Coding
Devin
Agents
TaglineAI-first VS Code fork — chat, edit, and agentic coding in one IDE.Cognition Labs' "autonomous software engineer" agent.
CategoryCodingAgents
PricingFreemium· Free hobby; Pro $20/mo; Business $40/moPaid· From $500/mo Core
ModelClaude / GPT (configurable)Multi-model (Claude / GPT configurable)
Editorial score9.5 / 107.8 / 10
Use cases
codingrefactorsagentic editsIDE
autonomous codingticket resolution
Pros
  • Best-in-class multi-file edits
  • Choice of underlying models
  • Composer agent is genuinely useful
  • Tab completion is faster than Copilot
  • Genuinely runs end-to-end coding loops
  • Visible reasoning/process
  • Useful for grunt tickets
  • Replay for code review
Cons
  • Heavier than vanilla VS Code
  • Pricing creeping up
  • Some extensions lag VS Code
  • Expensive
  • Quality drops on complex / ambiguous tasks
Websitecursor.comdevin.ai
Pick Cursor if
  • ✅ Best-in-class multi-file edits
  • ✅ Choice of underlying models
  • ✅ Composer agent is genuinely useful
  • ✅ Tab completion is faster than Copilot
Pick Devin if
  • ✅ Genuinely runs end-to-end coding loops
  • ✅ Visible reasoning/process
  • ✅ Useful for grunt tickets
  • ✅ Replay for code review
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