Tool
Devin
Cognition's cloud autonomous software engineer that plans, codes, debugs, and deploys in a sandboxed environment with
About
Devin runs in the cloud or on your machine, tests in its own browser, and won't stop until the PR is ready to merge
Features
- delegating end-to-end tasks in a cloud VM
- Pricing
- Subscription / usage
- Pricing detail
- Entry plans reported from ~$20/mo; team/ACU-based higher tiers
- Platforms
- Cloud sandbox + web IDE
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