Devin vs GitHub Copilot
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Devin
Autonomous AI software engineer from Cognition
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GitHub Copilot
The most widely adopted AI pair programmer, native to GitHub
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 8.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | Free plan open to all GitHub users (not just students/OSS maintainers) |
| Paid from | Free $0/mo; Pro $20/mo; Max $200/mo; Teams $80/mo + $40/seat; Enterprise custom | Pro $10/mo, Pro+ $39/mo, Max $100/mo, Business $19/user/mo, Enterprise $39/user/mo |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | Thousands of enterprise customers (e.g. Goldman Sachs, Citi, Nubank) | 4.7m+ paid subscribers |
| Founded | 2023 | 2021 |
| Maker | Cognition AI | Microsoft |
| Verdict | 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... |
For teams already on GitHub, Copilot remains the lowest-friction AI coding assistant: inline completions, chat, multi-file edits and an agent mode, native in VS Code, JetBrains and GitHub itself, with a choice of GPT, Cl... |
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