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Devin vs GitHub Copilot

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Signal	Devin	GitHub Copilot
Tagline	An AI software engineer for planning and executing complex engineering work with human oversight.	GitHub's AI coding assistant for editors, command-line work, code review, and delegated development tasks.
Category	Developer tools	Developer tools
Pricing	Paid	Freemium
Platforms	Web, Desktop, CLI	Web, macOS, Windows, Linux
Features	Autonomous execution of multi-step engineering tasks Integrations with repositories, issue trackers, chat, and observability tools	Editor-based code suggestions and chat GitHub-native agent and code-review workflows
Tags	Coding	Coding
Community	0 votes · 0 saves	0 votes · 0 saves

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An AI software engineer for planning and executing complex engineering work with human oversight.

Devin is an AI software engineer from Cognition that can plan and execute engineering tasks such as migrations, refactors, pull-request review, documentation, testing, issue triage, and scheduled maintenance across connected development tools.

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GitHub's AI coding assistant for editors, command-line work, code review, and delegated development tasks.

GitHub Copilot provides AI assistance across supported editors and GitHub workflows. It can suggest code, answer questions about repositories, assist with pull requests and reviews, and support agent-based implementation tasks that remain visible to developers.

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