Aider vs Devin
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
| AI Aider Terminal-based AI pair programmer (open source) Visit |
Devin
Autonomous AI software engineer from Cognition
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8 / 10 | 7 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Paid |
| Free tier | Fully free; only cost is LLM API usage | — |
| Paid from | — | Free $0/mo; Pro $20/mo; Max $200/mo; Teams $80/mo + $40/seat; Enterprise custom |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | 100k+ developers | Thousands of enterprise customers (e.g. Goldman Sachs, Citi, Nubank) |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | Paul Gauthier | Cognition AI |
| Verdict | Aider is a command-line AI pair programmer that edits files directly in your local repo, builds a repo map for context, and commits changes through Git with generated messages — genuinely useful for reviewing diffs rathe... |
Devin, from Cognition, plans, writes, tests and debugs a task end-to-end inside its own cloud sandbox — shell, editor and browser included — rather than waiting for step-by-step approval like an in-editor copilot. It's g... |
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