# Agent Zero vs Devin (slim)

> Devin scores 55.7 (C) to Agent Zero's 54.2 (C) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Devin scores 55.7 (C) on agent readiness against Agent Zero's 54.2 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Agent Zero leads on reliability, payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do agent harnesses.

- Agent Zero: C 54.2, rank #709 of 986 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agent-zero.min.md
- Devin: C 55.7, rank #667 of 986 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devin.min.md
- Agent Zero, good for A technical owner who wants an agent with its own Linux machine, reachable from Telegram, WhatsApp or email, with scheduled tasks and editable memory. Ahead on Reliability, 57 against 30; Payments & pricing, 60 against 20; Maintenance & community, 75 against 63. Also No key needed to call it; Open source.
- Devin, good for A team that wants to hand whole tasks to a cloud agent and collect pull requests, driven from a pipeline or another agent. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 80 against 64; Security & auth, 72 against 54; Transparency & trust, 69 against 55. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where Agent Zero loses 6 points for them.

| Category | Agent Zero | Devin |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 57 | 30 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 64 | 80 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 62 | 62 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 54 | 72 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 75 | 63 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 55 | 69 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Agent Zero | Devin |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Agent Zero, s.r.o. | Cognition AI, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.devin.ai/mcp` |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| Auth | None | API key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Licence | MIT | Proprietary service under Cognition's Platform Terms of Service |
| Tools exposed | none | 13 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-23 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-06-30 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-03-09 |
| Customer content may train models |  | yes, with an opt-out |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |
| Popularity | 19k stars | none |