# Devin vs Pi (slim)

> Pi scores 68.4 (B) on agent readiness against Devin's 55.7 (C), and leads in 5 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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Pi scores 68.4 (B) on agent readiness against Devin's 55.7 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Devin leads on security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do agent harness.

- Devin: C 55.7, rank #505 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devin.min.md
- Pi: B 68.4, rank #180 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/earendil-pi.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 61; Transparency & trust, 69 against 64. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where Pi loses 4 points for them.
- Pi, good for Developers and pipelines that want a small, scriptable coding agent they can extend in TypeScript and drive over JSONL or RPC, inside their own container. Ahead on Reliability, 75 against 30; Agent ergonomics, 76 against 62; Payments & pricing, 60 against 20; Maintenance & community, 87 against 63. Also No key needed to call it; Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Devin | Pi |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 30 | 75 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 84 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 62 | 76 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 72 | 61 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 63 | 87 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 69 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Devin | Pi |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cognition AI, Inc. | Earendil |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.devin.ai/mcp` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP |  |
| Auth | API key | None |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Cognition's Platform Terms of Service | MIT |
| Tools exposed | 13 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Terms last updated | 2026-06-30 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-03-09 | no document linked |
| 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 | none | 113k stars, 5.2M npm/wk |