Coding and CLI agents · ranked 07
Devin
Cognition's cloud agent that takes a task and works on its own machine.
Best for Delegating a task to a cloud agent
Devin is Cognition's cloud software-engineering agent. You give it a task and it works on a machine of its own, then opens a result you review. It is a different job from a local CLI: longer tasks, more autonomy, and a bill to match. Pricing: check site.
Best use cases
- Bugs and features you can specify and then review
- Work you do not want running on your laptop
- A cloud agent next to Devin Desktop
Pros
- + Runs in the cloud, so your laptop is not the worker
- + Built for task delegation rather than line-by-line pairing
- + Pairs with Devin Desktop if you want one vendor for both
Cons
- − You are reviewing an agent that had a lot of rope
- − Pricing: check site. This is not a free CLI
Pricing
Commercial cloud agent. Current plans: check site.
Alternatives
Coding and CLI agents
8.3
Claude Code
Anthropic's coding agent for the terminal and supported editors.
Best for Repo-sized edits from the terminal
Coding and CLI agents
7.5
Codex CLI
OpenAI's open-source terminal agent for editing a repo.
Best for A terminal agent on OpenAI models
AI code editors
8.6
Cursor
AI editor on a VS Code fork, with tab, inline edit, and an agent.
Best for Daily driving an AI editor on a real repo