# DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Devin (slim)

> Devin scores 55.7 (C) to DeepSeek Harness's 49.2 (D) 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 DeepSeek Harness (dsh)'s 49.2 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. DeepSeek Harness (dsh) leads on agent ergonomics, payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do agent harnesses.

- DeepSeek Harness (dsh): D 49.2, rank #909 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-harness.min.md
- Devin: C 55.7, rank #730 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devin.min.md
- DeepSeek Harness (dsh), good for Developers who use DeepSeek models and want a scriptable harness with ACP, a JSON event stream and a Python SDK. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 68 against 62; Payments & pricing, 60 against 20; Maintenance & community, 71 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 40; Transparency & trust, 69 against 50. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where DeepSeek Harness (dsh) loses 6 points for them.

| Category | DeepSeek Harness (dsh) | Devin |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 33 | 30 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 77 | 80 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 68 | 62 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 40 | 72 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 71 | 63 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 50 | 69 |

| Fact (where they differ) | DeepSeek Harness (dsh) | Devin |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | DeepSeek | Cognition AI, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.devin.ai/mcp` |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| 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 | 2026-10-17 | 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 | 245k npm/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | none |