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AgentGPT vs Devin (Cognition)

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AgentGPT

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Web Automation Tools

Browser-based autonomous AI agent platform where users input goals and watch agents break them into tasks.

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Starting Price

Free

Devin (Cognition)

🔴Developer

Web Automation Tools

Autonomous AI software engineer that plans, codes, tests, and deploys complete software projects using its own sandboxed development environment with terminal…

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Starting Price

$20/month

Feature Comparison

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FeatureAgentGPTDevin (Cognition)
CategoryWeb Automation ToolsWeb Automation Tools
Pricing Plans3 listed plans3 listed plans
Starting PriceFree$20/month
Key Features
  • • Browser-based agent execution
  • • Real-time task decomposition
  • • Web search integration
  • • Code generation
  • • Bug detection
  • • Code completion

AgentGPT - Pros & Cons

Pros

  • ✓Best visual demonstration of agent reasoning process among 40+ AI Agent tools in our directory
  • ✓No technical setup required for browser-based testing — accessible to non-developers
  • ✓Open-source codebase with 31,000+ GitHub stars available for learning and modification
  • ✓Clear real-time execution visualization showing each reasoning step and search query
  • ✓Docker self-hosting support eliminates rate limits and allows custom model integration
  • ✓Free tier available for initial experimentation without credit card

Cons

  • ✗Development officially ended January 28, 2026 — no new features or bug fixes
  • ✗Agents frequently hit 25-50 loop limit before completing complex multi-step tasks
  • ✗$40/month Pro plan is double ChatGPT Plus and Claude Pro pricing ($20/month each) with less capability
  • ✗Limited integrations — only web search, no file uploads, APIs, or external tool access
  • ✗Single-agent architecture lacks multi-agent collaboration offered by CrewAI and AutoGen

Devin (Cognition) - Pros & Cons

Pros

  • ✓End-to-end autonomy: plans, codes, tests, and deploys without continuous human prompting, unlike inline assistants such as Copilot or Cursor
  • ✓Self-serve pricing starts at $20/month using ACU (Autonomous Compute Units), a 25x reduction from the original $500/month enterprise tier
  • ✓Operates a full sandboxed environment with code editor, terminal, and browser — enabling real research, package installation, and deployment workflows
  • ✓Proven on enterprise-scale work including COBOL modernization at Fortune 500 companies and a large-scale migration at Nubank
  • ✓Built by a high-density founding team with 10 IOI gold medals and senior engineers from Cursor, Scale AI, Google DeepMind, Waymo, and Modal
  • ✓Now integrated with Windsurf IDE (acquired by Cognition) and supports a Devin-for-Terminal hand-off workflow that starts local and resumes in the cloud

Cons

  • ✗ACU-based pricing can become unpredictable for long-running tasks compared to flat-rate competitors like Copilot ($10/month) or Cursor ($20/month)
  • ✗Autonomous decisions may diverge from team coding standards or architectural conventions without careful guardrails
  • ✗Less interactive than IDE-native assistants — best for delegated tasks, not pair-programming or real-time editing
  • ✗Enterprise features and dedicated support are gated behind Team ($200/month per seat) and custom Enterprise plans
  • ✗Newer than established tools, so long-term code quality and maintenance patterns are still being validated in production deployments

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🔒 Security & Compliance Comparison

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Security FeatureAgentGPTDevin (Cognition)
SOC2—✅ Yes
GDPR—✅ Yes
HIPAA——
SSO—✅ Yes
Self-Hosted✅ Yes❌ No
On-Prem✅ Yes❌ No
RBAC—✅ Yes
Audit Log—✅ Yes
Open Source✅ Yes❌ No
API Key Auth✅ Yes✅ Yes
Encryption at Rest—✅ Yes
Encryption in Transit—✅ Yes
Data Residency——
Data Retentionconfigurable—
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