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GitHub Copilot vs Devin

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

Choose GitHub Copilot when

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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Choose Devin when

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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