# Clawboo vs Devin (slim)

> Clawboo scores 61.4 (C) to Devin's 55.8 (C) for multi-agent orchestration. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Clawboo scores 61.4 (C) on agent readiness against Devin's 55.8 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Devin leads on maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do multi-agent orchestration.

- Clawboo: C 61.4, rank #555 of 1251 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clawboo.min.md
- Devin: C 55.8, rank #781 of 1251 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devin.min.md
- Clawboo, good for One person on one computer who wants several coding and general agents on one board, with shared memory and a lead agent that routes work. Ahead on Reliability, 52 against 30; Agent ergonomics, 75 against 62; Payments & pricing, 60 against 20. Also No key needed to call it; Free to start without a card; 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 Maintenance & community, 63 against 51; Transparency & trust, 70 against 58. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where Clawboo loses 4 points for them.

| Category | Clawboo | Devin |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 52 | 30 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 83 | 80 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 75 | 62 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 70 | 72 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 51 | 63 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 58 | 70 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Clawboo | Devin |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Sanreds | 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 | 2026-10-21 | 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 | not read yet | yes, with an opt-out |
| Terms restrict automated access | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not read yet | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not read yet | yes |
| Popularity | 100 npm/wk | none |

Why the edge:
- Payments & pricing, Clawboo +40: Clawboo 60 (No payment protocol (0). Read with the self-hosted rule. Free under MIT with nothing to buy (20). No card and no Clawboo account (20). One `npx` command installs and starts it with no sign-up (20). Model costs belong to the providers the owner connects.); Devin 20 (Published rubric. No payment protocol (0). Plan prices are public, $20, $200 and $40 a seat with an $80 team minimum, but usage past the quota is billed at an unpublished rate (10). A Free plan exists. The pricing page lists cloud agents from Pro upward, and we couldn't confirm API use on Free or whether a card is needed (10). A person signs up in a browser and provisions the service user in settings (0).)
- Reliability, Clawboo +22: Clawboo 52 (Read as local software. The official npm package `clawboo` states Node.js 22.12 or newer, and the README says macOS, Linux and Windows are supported (20). `ci.yml` runs lint, typecheck, Vitest and a real-concurrency suite on Linux and platform suites on Windows and macOS, and `publish.yml` reruns build, lint, typecheck, tests and a clean-install boot before it publishes. 0.5.0 carries provenance from that workflow on main, so its checks passed at that commit, but run results on main couldn't be read (15). github.com was unreachable, so open crash and regression issues are unchecked. A known-issues page lists 25 entries with a status each, three of them fixed on main (5). Changesets write a changelog entry per release, and removals and the 0.2.0 database reset are called out, though breaking changes arrive in minor versions before 1.0 (12). Version 0.5.0, and SECURITY.md says pre-1.0 (0).); Devin 30 (Hosted reading. Status page at www.devinstatus.com with 14 components and incident history (20). In the 90 days to 8 October 2026 it lists three critical incidents (22 July, 43 minutes of platform-wide queuing, 13 August, Devin Cloud unavailable for 2 hours 40 minutes, 24 September, the web app down for 2 hours) and six major ones on session start-up, so several majors (0). 429 is a documented response, but no rate limit figures were found (0). No Retry-After or backoff guidance found, and v3 session creation has no idempotency key, although the legacy v1 API had one (0). The platform terms supply the service as is with no service level, and enterprise terms weren't read (0). The v3 API is the current, recommended surface, with 44 of 239 operations marked beta under /v3beta1 (10).)
- Agent ergonomics, Clawboo +13: Clawboo 75 (Harness reading, scored on what an agent or pipeline driving it has to supply. Four MCP servers keep tool lists small (12 Tasks tools, 4 Memory tools, 2 or 3 TeamChat tools, and Tools with four demonstration builtins plus granted connectors), Clawboo Native gets a read-only Tasks subset, and Tools results over 16 KiB are trimmed with a handle to read the rest (22). Circuit breakers stop task-runner runs after more than 30 tool calls or 200,000 tokens a minute, and team chat caps hand-offs at 8 a turn and three levels. Budgets warn only unless set to a hard cap, and a hard cap stops most runs only between runs (14). REST errors use one `{error}` shape, refused MCP calls return `denied:` with a reason prefix, and 429s carry `Retry-After` (16). `claim_task` and `assign_task` are atomic, illegal status changes are refused by name, the board survives restarts and routines resume after failure. No MCP tool annotations are documented (14). One `npx` command and a provider key or a local Ollama, but Claude Code teammates need a global install with the Agent SDK, and there is no client SDK (9).); Devin 62 (API and MCP reading. The MCP server documents 13 tools, several of them consolidated manage tools, and list endpoints take `first` to size a page (17). Cursor pagination on every v3 list endpoint and filters on session search by tag, playbook, origin, user and time (18). problem+json with `error_code`, field-level errors on 422 and a 400 that lists valid platform names, but no published code list (15). No idempotency key on v3 session creation. `max_acu_limit` caps what a session can spend, and the MCP tool annotations couldn't be read without a key (4). Only `prompt` is required to start a session. No official SDK found, only a Terraform provider (8).)
- Maintenance & community, Devin +12: Clawboo 51 (0.5.0 was published to npm on 21 October 2026 (30). Two releases in the 90 days to 1 November 2026, 0.4.0 on 28 September and 0.5.0, below the three the line asks for (0). github.com was unreachable, so replies to issues, pull requests and Discussions are unchecked. The CI file cites issue #140 as fixed (3). One public npm package, current, with no entry in the official MCP registry for its four servers (10). CI, CodeQL, weekly Dependabot and SLSA provenance on 0.4.0 and 0.5.0, with `@composio/client` pinned to an alpha (8).); Devin 63 (Closed service. Newest release note dated 7 October 2026 (30). Nineteen dated release notes between 7 August and 7 October 2026, and API notes for August and September (20). Public release notes and a support address, with no public tracker or forum found (10). No official SDK found and the Devin MCP server didn't appear in a search of the official MCP registry (0). No public CI or packages to assess, with the docs and three OpenAPI specs kept current (3).)
- Transparency & trust, Devin +12: Clawboo 58 (MIT, Copyright 2026 Sanreds, with a third-party notices file (30). The docs list every file Clawboo writes, which copies of keys are encrypted and which are plain text, retention for stored tool results (7 days) and pending approvals (24 hours), and that prompts go only to connected providers. There is no privacy statement, and the website wasn't read (22). The 0.1.x line is deprecated on npm with a note in the changelog, and removals are dated in release notes, with no written deprecation policy or notice period (10). No telemetry, with the server's own outbound requests disclosed, though the npm update check has no setting (18).); Devin 70 (Editorial half. Closed source with clear terms from Cognition AI, Inc. (15). Terms, privacy policy, security page and data processing agreement agree with each other. Customer data may be used for model training by default on self-serve plans, with an opt-out on paid plans that also turns on zero data retention at model providers. Retention is stated as the length of the customer relationship, with no periods (18). Dated notices for the schedules endpoints (announced 10 September, creation refused from 24 September 2026) and the v2 clone endpoint, but no deprecation policy and no end date for v1 and v2 (10). Sub-processors listed with purpose and country, and 15 days' notice of additions (18).)