Augment Code vs Devin: license, pricing and features compared (October 2026)

Augment Code and Devin are both listed under AI coding agents. Pricing model: Augment Code is "Paid (usage-based)"; Devin is "Freemium". Free tier: Augment Code: No free plan shown on the pricing page. Devin: $0 (light quota; Devin Cloud is not listed under Free). Augment Code is the better fit for: small teams that want flat pricing across seats. Devin is the better fit for: teams that want to delegate whole tickets to a cloud agent and review PRs. Facts were read from vendor and GitHub pages on Oct 25, 2026 and are Reported; what we ran ourselves is under What we measured.

Our pick: Pick Augment Code for small teams that want flat pricing across seats; pick Devin for teams that want to delegate whole tickets to a cloud agent and review PRs. No overall winner: we have not benchmarked them against each other. Updated Oct 26, 2026 (America/Chicago).

By Agentic Weekly, operated independently from Texas, US · Published Oct 25, 2026 · Last updated Oct 26, 2026 (America/Chicago) · How we work

Evidence: Reported for both tools. The facts in the tables were read from each vendor's own pages and the public GitHub API on 2026-10-25 (America/Chicago). The What we measured section says what we have not run yet; anything we could not confirm is marked as not captured.

Augment Code

Reported

Coding agent and 'Cosmos' platform with a Context Engine, CLI and cloud agents; plans are flat team prices with usage included.

Devin

Cognition

Reported

Cognition's autonomous software engineer: a cloud coding agent that tests in its own browser and aims to hand back a mergeable pull request.

Side by side, from what we recorded

Each row compares one recorded fact for both tools. Rows are not weighted and nothing is added up into a score; the note under each row says what the marker means.

Evidence
Reported for Augment Code
Reported for Devin
Tested = we ran it (smoke test); Reported = we read official sources
Pricing we could verify
Verified from official page for Augment Code
Verified from official page for Devin
About our evidence only, not about the price
Steps in our setup guide
2 for Augment Code
2 for Devin
Counts our guide's steps, not difficulty
Sources we cite
2 for Augment Code
3 for Devin
How much we had to read; more is not better

A list of recorded differences, not a quality score or a ranking. We have not benchmarked these tools against each other; the smoke-test row links each tool's own log. How we label evidence.

What we measured

We have not run either Augment Code or Devin ourselves yet, so nothing on this page is Tested; it is Reported from vendor and GitHub pages. Below is what we will run, so the comparison can rest on our own results.

Our own tests for Augment Code and Devin
Test	Augment Code	Devin
Hands-on test log (install and a real task)	Not tested yet. What we will run: the same failing-unit-test fix in a fresh repository, scored by whether the tests pass, with wall time and tool calls.	Not tested yet. What we will run: the same failing-unit-test fix in a fresh repository, scored by whether the tests pass, with wall time and tool calls.

How we test and label results: methodology. All test logs: test hub.

Augment Code vs Devin at a glance

Augment Code and Devin are both listed under AI coding agents. Augment Code: Coding agent and 'Cosmos' platform with a Context Engine, CLI and cloud agents; plans are flat team prices with usage included. Devin: Cognition's autonomous software engineer: a cloud coding agent that tests in its own browser and aims to hand back a mergeable pull request.

Augment Code and Devin side by side (vendor pages and GitHub, 2026-10-25)
Feature	Augment Code	Devin
Vendor	Augment Code	Cognition
Listed under	AI coding agents	AI coding agents
License	Proprietary	Proprietary
Pricing model	Paid (usage-based)	Freemium
Free tier	No free plan shown on the pricing page	Free plan: $0 (light quota; Devin Cloud is not listed under Free)
Paid plans	Standard $20 per month flat (up to 50 seats, $20 usage included); Business $100 per month flat ($100 usage included); Enterprise custom	Pro $20/month includes access to Devin Cloud; Max $200/month; Teams $80/month plus $40/month per full dev seat; Enterprise custom
Platforms	CLI, cloud agents and a platform called Cosmos (platform list not read)	Cloud agent; Devin Desktop and Devin CLI also listed on the site
Evidence	Reported from vendor pages	Reported from vendor pages

How Augment Code and Devin differ

Pricing model: Augment Code is "Paid (usage-based)"; Devin is "Freemium".
Free tier: Augment Code: No free plan shown on the pricing page. Devin: $0 (light quota; Devin Cloud is not listed under Free).
Plans and prices differ and are not like-for-like (credits, seats and usage limits vary), so we do not name a cheaper tool. The Paid plans row above quotes each vendor's plan list as read on Oct 25, 2026.
Platforms as the vendors list them: Augment Code: CLI, cloud agents and a platform called Cosmos (platform list not read). Devin: Cloud agent; Devin Desktop and Devin CLI also listed on the site.

Neither tool publishes open-source code under a standard license, so you are choosing between hosted products.

Which should you pick?

Pick Augment Code if: small teams that want flat pricing across seats; teams working on large codebases (Context Engine focus). Skip it if: you want a free tier.
Pick Devin if: teams that want to delegate whole tickets to a cloud agent and review PRs; engineers who want tasks to keep running after they close their laptop. Skip it if: you want a low-cost, bring-your-own-model workflow (Aider and OpenHands are open source).

Strengths and limits

Strengths and limits as listed on each tool page
Feature	Augment Code	Devin
Strengths	Flat team price rather than per seat; SOC 2 Type II listed	Free plan exists; Slack, Linear, Jira and the main git hosts are supported on paid plans; One vendor for cloud, desktop, CLI and review
Limits	No free plan on the page we read; Usage included is small relative to heavy agent use (dollar amounts only)	Usage allowances are not given as numbers on the page; Concurrent sessions are capped at 10 on Pro and Max; Proprietary and cloud-based

What we did not verify

Augment Code: Release date (none published on the pages we read; the date shown is the day we first covered this entry).
Devin: Release date (none published on the pages we read; the date shown is the day we first covered this entry).
Output quality, speed and reliability beyond the smoke tests listed under What we measured: not compared.

FAQ

Is Augment Code or Devin open source?

Augment Code: Proprietary. Devin: Proprietary. Licenses come from each project's GitHub repository or the vendor's own pages, read Oct 25, 2026; read the license text itself before redistributing or building a competing service.

Does Augment Code or Devin have a free plan?

Augment Code: No free plan shown on the pricing page. Devin: Free: plan: $0 (light quota; Devin Cloud is not listed under Free). Checked Oct 25, 2026; prices and limits change, so confirm on each vendor's page.

What is the main difference between Augment Code and Devin?

Pricing model: Augment Code is "Paid (usage-based)"; Devin is "Freemium". Free tier: Augment Code: No free plan shown on the pricing page. Devin: $0 (light quota; Devin Cloud is not listed under Free).

Sources

Augment Code (fetched 2026-10-25)
Augment Code pricing (fetched 2026-10-25)
Devin (fetched 2026-10-25)
Devin plans and pricing (fetched 2026-10-25)
Windsurf 2.0: Devin in Windsurf (Cognition blog, April 15, 2026) (fetched 2026-10-25)

Page history

Oct 25, 2026: First published. Facts read from vendor pages and the GitHub API on 2026-10-25.

Markdown version for agents: /compare/augment-code-vs-devin.md

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