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Compare / updated 2026-10-14
Devin vs Cursor (2026): Delegate the Ticket or Drive the Edit
Devin if you want to assign a ticket and walk away. Cursor if you want to stay in the editor and drive the agent yourself.
Side by side
| Devin | Cursor | |
|---|---|---|
| Job in the stack | The delegated-engineering seat: an agent that takes whole tickets — bugfixes, migrations, small features — and returns pull requests. Since June 2026 this also covers the interactive IDE (Devin Desktop, formerly Windsurf) — cloud ticket-work and local agent editing now share one Kanban view under the same brand. | The hands-on coding seat: an editor where AI agents write, refactor, and navigate the codebase with you. |
| Pricing | Free $0 | Free $0 |
| Pro $20/mo | Plus $8/mo | |
| Max $200/mo | Premium $30/mo | |
| Teams $80/mo + $40/seat | Super $100/mo | |
| Enterprise custom | Ultra $200/mo | |
| Teams $30+/user/mo | ||
| Legacy Pro / Pro+ / Ultra / Teams $20 / $60 / $200 / $40 | ||
| Verified | 2026-10-25 | 2026-10-14 |
Devin and Cursor both put an AI agent on your codebase, but they’re not competing for the same seat. Cursor is interactive — you’re in the editor, watching the diff, steering as it goes. Devin is asynchronous — you write the ticket, close the tab, and a pull request shows up later. Interactive depth versus delegated throughput. Most teams that use both aren’t choosing a winner; they’re routing work.
The July 2026 pricing reset
Cognition just rebuilt Devin’s pricing (July 7): the old $20-plus-$2.25-per-ACU Core plan and flat $500/mo Team plan are gone, replaced by Free, Pro ($20/mo), Max ($200/mo), and Teams ($80/mo base plus $40/seat). Cursor rebuilt its own ladder on October 12, 2026: it’s now sold as The X Subscription — Free, Plus $8 (Grok models only), Premium $30, Super $100, Ultra $200 — with one usage pool shared with Grok and third-party models like Claude billed on top at API list price. The entry points are close enough that the real decision is workflow, not price.
Where Devin wins
- Whole-ticket delegation. Assign a bugfix, migration, or dependency bump; get back a PR, not a suggestion.
- Grind work at scale. Framework migrations and test-coverage sprints that stall human queues are Devin’s best use of a free afternoon — yours.
- A real free tier. Former Core users were migrated to Free, so you can evaluate before committing to Pro.
Where Cursor wins
- Interactive control. You watch the agent work in real time and correct course mid-task — no waiting for a finished PR to discover it went sideways.
- Tab completion. The other 90% of daily AI-coding value that Devin doesn’t touch at all.
- Model routing. Claude, GPT, or Gemini per task, chosen by you, inside one editor.
The call
| You are | Pick |
|---|---|
| Clearing a backlog of well-specified maintenance tickets | Devin Pro ($20) |
| Coding daily and want to stay hands-on | Cursor Premium ($30) |
| Running both a backlog and daily development | Both — different jobs |
| Working from vague, one-line tickets | Neither yet — fix the specs first |
Devin’s leverage is proportional to how well you can write a ticket; Cursor’s leverage is proportional to how much you want to stay in the loop. Spec tightly for Devin, review everything either way — autonomy isn’t correctness.