# Cline vs Devin (slim)

> Cline scores 60.4 (C) 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 agent harness. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Cline scores 60.4 (C) 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 agent harness.

- Cline: C 60.4, rank #400 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cline.min.md
- Devin: C 55.7, rank #505 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devin.min.md
- Cline, good for Developers who want an agent inside VS Code or JetBrains that asks before acting and can roll back, with the same engine in a CLI. Ahead on Reliability, 80 against 30; Agent ergonomics, 67 against 62; Payments & pricing, 50 against 20; Maintenance & community, 85 against 63. Also 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 Security & auth, 72 against 57; Transparency & trust, 69 against 61. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where Cline loses 8 points for them.

| Category | Cline | Devin |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 80 | 30 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 77 | 80 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 67 | 62 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 72 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 63 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 69 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cline | Devin |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cline Bot Inc. | Cognition AI, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.devin.ai/mcp` |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under Cognition's Platform Terms of Service |
| Tools exposed | none | 13 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-09-25 | 2026-06-30 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-09-24 | 2026-03-09 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes, with an opt-out |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 68k stars | none |
| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | none |