Cursor vs Devin

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	Cursor AI-native code editor (VS Code fork) with agent mode, codebase indexing.	Devin Cognition's autonomous cloud software engineer that plans, codes, tests, and opens pull requests on its own.
Category	harness	harness
Vendor type	commercial	commercial
Pricing	subscription	freemium
Strengths	+ Polished IDE UX + Strong codebase indexing + Multi-model support	+ Fully autonomous cloud sessions that run tasks end to end without local setup + Access to multiple frontier model families plus Cognition's own SWE models + Quota-based plans scale from a free tier to high-usage Max and Teams tiers
Tradeoffs	− Closed product surface; less programmable than CLI harnesses	− Works best on well-scoped tasks; practitioners report mixed results on ambiguous or large refactors − Quota allowances can deplete quickly on long autonomous runs, pushing users to API-priced top-ups − Closed source with less interactive steering than pair-programming style CLI agents
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