# Amp vs Devin (slim)

> Amp scores 57.1 (C) on agent readiness against Devin's 55.7 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Devin leads on schema & documentation and security & auth. Both do agent harness. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Amp scores 57.1 (C) on agent readiness against Devin's 55.7 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Devin leads on schema & documentation and security & auth. Both do agent harness.

- Amp: C 57.1, rank #427 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amp.min.md
- Devin: C 55.7, rank #447 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devin.min.md
- Amp, good for Teams that want a hosted, multi-model coding agent with shared threads and cloud machines, driven from scripts through execute mode or the SDKs. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 69 against 62; Payments & pricing, 35 against 20; Maintenance & community, 79 against 63; Transparency & trust, 77 against 69.
- 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 72; Security & auth, 72 against 57. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | Amp | Devin |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 31 | 30 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 72 | 80 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 62 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 72 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 79 | 63 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 69 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amp | Devin |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amp Frontier Corporation | Cognition AI, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.devin.ai/mcp` |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Licence | Proprietary, under the Amp licence terms (Amp Frontier Corporation). The npm packages are marked Amp Commercial License and the source repository is private | Proprietary service under Cognition's Platform Terms of Service |
| Tools exposed | none | 13 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-06-30 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-10 | 2026-03-09 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes, with an opt-out |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 41k npm/wk | none |