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Alternatives to Devin
22 software development tools sit alongside Devin in this directory. Below is what separates each from Devin on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 22
- With a free tier
- 19
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Devin starts at
- On request
Why people look past Devin
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Devin entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is no free tier
The record for Devin carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 19 of the 22 alternatives below can be used without paying.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
The agentic IDE
- Can be used without paying; Devin cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of $20/month, where Devin does not.
Code at the speed of thought
- Can be used without paying; Devin cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of $10/month, where Devin does not.
- Sold on a freemium model rather than subscription.
The AI-first code editor
- Can be used without paying; Devin cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of $20/month, where Devin does not.
Amp
Amp is the frontier agent
- Publishes an entry price of $20/monthly, where Devin does not.
Command-line inner loop for Kubernetes: watch, build, push and deploy on every file save
- Can be used without paying; Devin cannot.
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than subscription.
Open-source feature flag and experimentation service
- Can be used without paying; Devin cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of $75/month, where Devin does not.
- Sold on a freemium model rather than subscription.
Every Devin alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Devin (this page) | On request | Subscription | - | |
| WindsurfThe agentic IDE | Free, then $20/month | - | 4 | vs Devin |
| ZedCode at the speed of thought | Free, then $10/month | Freemium | 2 | vs Devin |
| CursorThe AI-first code editor | Free, then $20/month | - | 4 | vs Devin |
| AmpAmp is the frontier agent | $20/monthly | Subscription | 4 | vs Devin |
| Skaffold | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Devin |
| Unleash | Free, then $75/month | Freemium | 2 | vs Devin |
| TeamCity | Free | Freemium | 2 | vs Devin |
| SonarQube Cloud | Free, then $34/month | Freemium | 3 | vs Devin |
| Flagsmith | Free, then $45/month | Freemium | 3 | vs Devin |
| DeepSource | Free, then $24/month | Freemium | 3 | vs Devin |
| Codacy | Free, then $18/month | Freemium | 3 | vs Devin |
| Drizzle ORM | Free | Open-source | 1 | vs Devin |
| Braintrust | Free | Freemium | 3 | vs Devin |
| Humanloop | Free | Usage-based | 3 | vs Devin |
| Bun | Free | Open-source | - | vs Devin |
| Langfuse | Free, then $29/month | Freemium | 4 | vs Devin |
| LangSmith | Free, then $39/month | Freemium | 3 | vs Devin |
| Cline | Free | Usage-based | - | vs Devin |
| Qodo | Free, then $0.012/per credit | Usage-based | 3 | vs Devin |
| Val Town | Free, then $21/month | Freemium | 4 | vs Devin |
| Factory | $20/month | Subscription | 5 | vs Devin |
| Augment Code | $100/month | Subscription | 2 | vs Devin |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Devin badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
Free to start (19)
These publish a tier that costs nothing, so they can be evaluated before any money changes hands.
What you would be giving up
Devin is most often brought in for feature implementation and ticket resolution in established codebases, code migrations and refactoring at scale across repositories, bug fixing and debugging with test-driven verification, rapid prototyping and proof-of-concept development, repetitive implementation tasks freeing human engineers for complex design. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Devin is broadly right and the question is cost, the Devin pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Software Development category lists everything the directory holds, and best software development tools ranks them.
Devin runs on desktop, windsurf integration, web. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Devin alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Devin?
- 22 other software development tools are listed in this directory, led by Windsurf, Zed, Cursor, Amp. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Devin?
- 19 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Windsurf, Zed, Cursor, Skaffold, Unleash.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Devin?
- On the figures on record, one thing stands out: there is no free tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Devin?
- Devin is most often brought in for feature implementation and ticket resolution in established codebases, code migrations and refactoring at scale across repositories, bug fixing and debugging with test-driven verification, rapid prototyping and proof-of-concept development, repetitive implementation tasks freeing human engineers for complex design. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Devin?
- Drizzle ORM, Bun are recorded with an open-source licence model.
- How were these Devin alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Software Development, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Devin against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Devin covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every software development tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Software Development category, 22 tools beside Devin. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.