agent · ai-coding-agents
Aider vs Devin
55 fields both were evaluated on, 16 of them different — including where one discloses something the other does not. Every value links to the document it came from. 39 further fields are disclosed by neither and are listed at the end rather than tabled.
Assurance
| Field | Aider | Devin |
|---|---|---|
| Audit trail· | “Git integration Aider automatically commits changes with sensible commit messages.”aider.chat · checked Aug 1, 2026 | no public information devin.ai · checked Aug 1, 2026 |
Agency
| Field | Aider | Devin |
|---|---|---|
| Human oversight· | no public information aider.chat · checked Aug 1, 2026 | “A human is kept in the loop just to manage the project and approve Devin’s changes.”devin.ai · checked Aug 1, 2026 |
| Goal complexity· | no public information aider.chat · checked Aug 1, 2026 | “Migration or large refactoring tasks are often fantastic projects for Devin: after investing a small, fixed cost to teach Devin how to approach sub-tasks, Devin can go and complete the migration autonomously.”devin.ai · checked Aug 1, 2026 |
| Action space· | no public information aider.chat · checked Aug 1, 2026 | “Devin ships PRs the way your team does — picking up review feedback and CI results to get each PR approved and merged.”devin.ai · checked Aug 1, 2026 |
| Initiative· | no public information aider.chat · checked Aug 1, 2026 | “Devin can go and complete the migration autonomously.”devin.ai · checked Aug 1, 2026 |
Practicality
| Field | Aider | Devin |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment options· | “Devin Cloud Devin Desktop Devin CLI Devin Review Devin Windows VM”devin.ai · checked Aug 1, 2026 | |
| Integrations· | “Git integration Aider automatically commits changes with sensible commit messages.”aider.chat · checked Aug 1, 2026 | “Build together with Confluence Build together with Airtable Build together with Segment Build together with Asana Build together with Notion Build together with Stripe Build together with AWS Build together with GitHub Build together with Datadog Build together with Linear Build together with Databricks Build together with Slack Build together with Google Drive Build together with Sentry Build together with PostgreSQL Build together with Azure Build together with Snowflake Build together with MongoDB”devin.ai · checked Aug 1, 2026 |
Foundation models
| Field | Aider | Devin |
|---|---|---|
| Base models· | “Aider works best with Claude 3.7 Sonnet, DeepSeek R1 & Chat V3, OpenAI o1, o3-mini & GPT-4o”aider.chat · checked Aug 1, 2026 | no public information devin.ai · checked Aug 1, 2026 |
| Model provider· | “Aider works best with Claude 3.7 Sonnet, DeepSeek R1 & Chat V3, OpenAI o1, o3-mini & GPT-4o”aider.chat · checked Aug 1, 2026 | no public information devin.ai · checked Aug 1, 2026 |
| Model swappable· | “but can connect to almost any LLM, including local models.”aider.chat · checked Aug 1, 2026 | no public information devin.ai · checked Aug 1, 2026 |
| Fine-tuning· | no public information aider.chat · checked Aug 1, 2026 | “The Nubank team helped to collect examples of previous migrations their engineers had done manually, some of which were fed to Devin for fine-tuning.”devin.ai · checked Aug 1, 2026 |
Ecosystem
| Field | Aider | Devin |
|---|---|---|
| Multi-agent· | no public information aider.chat · checked Aug 1, 2026 | “Devin can spin up a team of Devins for large tasks.”devin.ai · checked Aug 1, 2026 |
| API access· | no public information devin.ai · checked Aug 1, 2026 |
Impact
| Field | Aider | Devin |
|---|---|---|
| User base· | “⭐ GitHub Stars 44K 📦 Installs 6.8M 📈 Tokens/week 15B”aider.chat · checked Aug 1, 2026 | |
| Deployment scale· | “⭐ GitHub Stars 44K 📦 Installs 6.8M 📈 Tokens/week 15B”aider.chat · checked Aug 1, 2026 | “Among others, Data, Collections, and Risk business units verified and completed their migrations in weeks instead of months or years.”devin.ai · checked Aug 1, 2026 |
| Target sectors· | no public information aider.chat · checked Aug 1, 2026 | “Nubank was born into the tradition of centralized ETL FinServ architectures.”devin.ai · checked Aug 1, 2026 |
Disclosed by neither
Both Aider and Devin publish nothing on these 39 fields. That is a finding about the category rather than a difference between them, so it is recorded here instead of as 39 identical table rows. Each is shown with its source check on the individual profiles.
- Autonomy level
- Operating environment
- High-risk domains
- Documented incidents
- Pricing model
- Price point
- Availability
- Supported regions
- Support model
- Open weights
- Context window
- Protocols supported
- Tool use
- Open source
- Marketplace presence
- Safety evaluations
- Red teaming
- Safety policy
- Usage restrictions
- Model or system card
- Incident reporting
- Third-party evaluations
- Data handling
- Insurance available
- Insurance carriers
- Coverage limits
- Indemnification
- Liability cap
- Tamper-evident log
- Explainability
- Runtime governance
- Permission scopes
- Compliance certifications
- Regulatory alignment
- Outcome-based pricing
- Settlement mechanism
- Dispute process
- SLA terms
- Evaluation coverage