Devin vs GitHub Copilot vs Aider vs Cursor
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Devin
Cognition's autonomous coding agent, in the cloud, on the desktop and...
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GitHub Copilot
GitHub's coding assistant and agents, now billed in AI Credits
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Aider
Open-source terminal pair programmer that commits through Git, now sta...
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Cursor
AI code editor and coding agents, now sold inside The X Subscription
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 8.3 / 10 | 8 / 10 | 8.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Open Source | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free plan with a light agent quota, limited model availability, and unlimited inline edits and Tab completions | Copilot Free: 2,000 inline suggestions a month plus limited chat and agent usage, no card required; free Student plan for verified students | Free and open source under Apache 2.0; you pay only your model provider's API costs | Free plan: limited agent and Chat requests and a starter allowance for Cursor's coding agents, no card listed |
| Paid from | $20/month Pro, Max $200/month, Teams $80/month plus $40 per full seat | $10/month (Pro, 1,500 AI Credits); Business $19 and Enterprise $39 per seat a month | — | $8/month (Plus, Grok models only), Premium $30, Super $100, Ultra $200 |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | Thousands of enterprise customers (e.g. Goldman Sachs, Citi, Nubank) | 4.7m+ paid subscribers | 100k+ developers | 1m+ developers |
| Founded | 2024 | 2021 | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | Cognition AI | GitHub, Inc. | Paul Gauthier | SpaceX |
| Verdict | Devin is strongest on well-scoped, repetitive engineering work: migrations, dependency upgrades, test coverage, vulnerability fixes and tickets with clear acceptance criteria, which it can work through in parallel while... |
For teams already on GitHub, Copilot is still the lowest-friction way to add AI to the whole workflow: completions in almost every major editor, agents that work from issues and open pull requests, reviews on github.com,... |
Aider's design still holds up: it edits your repo directly, commits every change through Git so you can diff and undo it, works with almost any model including local ones, and costs nothing beyond your API tokens. Archit... |
Cursor remains one of the strongest AI editors: agents that work across a whole codebase, cloud agents and automations, and Bugbot reviews, with Grok and Composer models included in a weekly allowance. The October 2026 m... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.