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Compare / updated 2026-07-07
Devin vs Cursor (2026): Delegate the Ticket or Drive the Edit
Devin if you want to assign a ticket and walk away. Cursor if you want to stay in the editor and drive the agent yourself.
Side by side
| Devin | Cursor | |
|---|---|---|
| Job in the stack | The delegated-engineering seat: an agent that takes whole tickets — bugfixes, migrations, small features — and returns pull requests. Since June 2026 this also covers the interactive IDE (Devin Desktop, formerly Windsurf) — cloud ticket-work and local agent editing now share one Kanban view under the same brand. | The hands-on coding seat: an editor where AI agents write, refactor, and navigate the codebase with you. |
| Pricing | Free $0 | Hobby $0 |
| Pro $20/mo | Pro $20/mo | |
| Max $200/mo | Pro+ $60/mo | |
| Teams $80/mo + $40/seat | Ultra $200/mo | |
| Enterprise custom | Teams Standard $40/user/mo | |
| Verified | 2026-08-18 | 2026-08-30 |
Devin and Cursor both put an AI agent on your codebase, but they’re not competing for the same seat. Cursor is interactive — you’re in the editor, watching the diff, steering as it goes. Devin is asynchronous — you write the ticket, close the tab, and a pull request shows up later. Interactive depth versus delegated throughput. Most teams that use both aren’t choosing a winner; they’re routing work.
The July 2026 pricing reset
Cognition just rebuilt Devin’s pricing (July 7): the old $20-plus-$2.25-per-ACU Core plan and flat $500/mo Team plan are gone, replaced by Free, Pro ($20/mo), Max ($200/mo), and Teams ($80/mo base plus $40/seat). Cursor’s ladder — Hobby free, Pro $20, Pro+ $60, Ultra $200 — has held steady since its own June 2026 update, and on July 21 it doubled the agent limits inside every one of those tiers without touching the price. The two now line up almost tier-for-tier at the entry point, which makes the real decision about workflow, not price.
Where Devin wins
- Whole-ticket delegation. Assign a bugfix, migration, or dependency bump; get back a PR, not a suggestion.
- Grind work at scale. Framework migrations and test-coverage sprints that stall human queues are Devin’s best use of a free afternoon — yours.
- A real free tier. Former Core users were migrated to Free, so you can evaluate before committing to Pro.
Where Cursor wins
- Interactive control. You watch the agent work in real time and correct course mid-task — no waiting for a finished PR to discover it went sideways.
- Tab completion. The other 90% of daily AI-coding value that Devin doesn’t touch at all.
- Model routing. Claude, GPT, or Gemini per task, chosen by you, inside one editor.
The call
| You are | Pick |
|---|---|
| Clearing a backlog of well-specified maintenance tickets | Devin Pro ($20) |
| Coding daily and want to stay hands-on | Cursor Pro ($20) |
| Running both a backlog and daily development | Both — different jobs |
| Working from vague, one-line tickets | Neither yet — fix the specs first |
Devin’s leverage is proportional to how well you can write a ticket; Cursor’s leverage is proportional to how much you want to stay in the loop. Spec tightly for Devin, review everything either way — autonomy isn’t correctness.