# Devin vs Droid CLI (slim)

> Droid CLI scores 59.1 (C) to Devin's 55.7 (C) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Droid CLI scores 59.1 (C) on agent readiness against Devin's 55.7 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Devin leads on security & auth, payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do agent harnesses.

- Devin: C 55.7, rank #651 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devin.min.md
- Droid CLI: C 59.1, rank #560 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/droid-cli.min.md
- 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 63; Payments & pricing, 20 against 10; Transparency & trust, 69 against 64. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- Droid CLI, good for Teams that want a terminal coding agent with tiered autonomy, command rules and an optional sandbox, and that will pay for a Factory plan. Ahead on Reliability, 49 against 30; Agent ergonomics, 72 against 62; Maintenance & community, 79 against 63.

| Category | Devin | Droid CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 30 | 49 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 79 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 62 | 72 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 72 | 63 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 10 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 63 | 79 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 69 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Devin | Droid CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cognition AI, Inc. | Factory |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.devin.ai/mcp` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP |  |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Cognition's Platform Terms of Service | Proprietary, under Factory's Terms and Conditions. The `droid` npm package is marked `UNLICENSED` and the public repository holds documentation only. The Python SDK is Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 13 | none |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-06-30 | 2026-07-14 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-03-09 | 2026-08-20 |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 49 stars, 7.8k npm/wk |