# CLI Manager vs Devin

> CLI Manager scores 65.8 (B) to Devin's 55.7 (C) for multi-agent orchestration. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-14

CLI Manager scores 65.8 (B) on agent readiness against Devin's 55.7 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Devin leads on security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do multi-agent orchestration.

- CLI Manager: grade B, 65.8/100, rank #329 of 1084. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cli-manager.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cli-manager.json
- Devin: grade C, 55.7/100, rank #694 of 1084. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devin.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/devin.json
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## Which one, for what

### CLI Manager (B)

Good for: A developer on macOS who runs several coding agents and wants another agent to start and watch sessions where the person can see and step in.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 68 against 30
- Schema & documentation, 87 against 80
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 20

Also in its favour:
- Free to start without a card
- Open source

Watch for: Once switched on, the API can read, type into and close every session in the app, including the user's own

### Devin (C)

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:
- Security & auth, 72 against 58
- Transparency & trust, 69 against 54

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for: www.devinstatus.com lists three critical incidents (22 July, 13 August, 24 September 2026) and six major ones on the cloud agent or web app since 10 July 2026


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | CLI Manager | Devin | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 68 | 30 | CLI Manager +38 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 87 | 80 | CLI Manager +7 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 63 | 62 | CLI Manager +1 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 58 | 72 | Devin +14 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 20 | CLI Manager +40 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 62 | 63 | Devin +1 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 54 | 69 | Devin +15 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **65.8 · B** | **55.7 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | CLI Manager | Devin |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |
| Vendor | solhun (Jeong Kyeonghun) | Cognition AI, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.devin.ai/mcp` |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT | Proprietary service under Cognition's Platform Terms of Service |
| Tools exposed | 12 | 13 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-13 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-14 | 2026-06-30 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-14 | 2026-03-09 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes, with an opt-out |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 15 stars | none |

## Verdicts

**CLI Manager.** An agent can open visible terminal sessions, type into them, wait and read the screen through 12 typed MCP tools or a documented REST API, and the user can take any session back. The API reaches every open session once enabled, the app runs only on macOS, and none of the last 35 CI runs on the main branch passed.

**Devin.** The v3 API is well specified, with a public OpenAPI 3.1 file covering 239 operations, problem+json errors, cursor pagination and service-user keys tied to roles. The status page records three critical and several major incidents on the cloud agent between 22 July and 24 September 2026, and no rate limit figures or retry guidance were found in the reviewed documentation.

## Before you call either

### CLI Manager

1. Ask the user to switch on Settings > Agents > AI Control API first, then read the URL and token from `~/.climanager/control-api.json`
2. On `409 awaiting_input`, read the screen and answer with `keys` such as ["down","enter"]. Leave folder-trust and permission choices to the user
3. Stop using a session on `409 disconnected`. The user took it back
4. Treat `timedOut: true` from `wait` as still running, not as a failure, and wait again
5. Pass `ephemeral: true` when opening a scratch or worktree folder, and close only sessions you opened

### Devin

1. Use a `cog_` service-user key with the Member role. Legacy `apk_` keys fail against v3 and the MCP server with 401 or 403
2. Set `max_acu_limit` on every session you create. Usage is metered by the work done and has no published unit rate
3. Session creation is not idempotent in v3. After a timeout, list sessions by tag before creating again
4. Enterprise keys and personal access tokens must send `X-Org-Id` to the MCP server. Organisation-scoped keys resolve it automatically
5. Create scheduled work as an automation. POST to the schedules endpoint returns 403 for migrated organisations since 24 September 2026

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, CLI Manager or Devin?

CLI Manager scores 65.8 (B) on agent readiness against Devin's 55.7 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Devin leads on security & auth and transparency & trust.

### Are CLI Manager and Devin open source?

CLI Manager is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Devin.


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