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Devin alternatives

Devin is the highest-profile autonomous coding agent, but the field has filled in. OpenHands is the OSS alternative that's beating Devin on public benchmarks. Factory takes a specialized-droids approach instead of one generalist agent. Claude Code and Cursor sit adjacent — autonomous-with-control instead of fully autonomous. The right alternative depends on whether you want true hands-off, more control, or self-hosting.

Original tool

Devin

Autonomous AI software engineer from Cognition.

$500/mo team plan; usage-based ACU pricing.

Top alternatives

Each entry includes the reason it's on this list — the specific trade-off versus Devin.

OpenHands

AI engineer

Open-source autonomous software engineering agent (formerly OpenDevin).

The OSS alternative. Same shape as Devin (sandboxed agent with terminal+browser+editor) but you self-host and pick the model. Top of every public coding-agent benchmark.

Free OSS; managed cloud in beta.

Factory

AI engineer

Autonomous AI 'droids' that handle full software engineering tasks.

The specialized-droids alternative. Multiple narrower agents (Code Droid, Reliability Droid) instead of one generalist — often better on focused tasks.

Custom; per-droid usage pricing.

Claude Code

Code assistant

Anthropic's CLI agent for autonomous engineering inside your terminal.

The autonomous-CLI alternative. Trade Devin's hands-off for control; the agent runs in your repo and shell, you watch the work.

Bundled with Claude Pro/Max; API pricing for teams.

Cursor

Code assistant

AI-first code editor with an in-IDE agent for whole-repo edits.

The IDE-with-agent alternative. Use Agent mode for the Devin-style work without the full autonomy commitment.

Free; Pro $20/mo; Business $40/seat.