# Devin vs goose (slim)

> goose scores 73.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Devin's 55.7 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Devin leads on transparency & trust. Both do agent harness. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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goose scores 73.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Devin's 55.7 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Devin leads on transparency & trust. Both do agent harness.

- Devin: C 55.7, rank #505 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devin.min.md
- goose: BB 73.9, rank #72 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/goose.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 Transparency & trust, 69 against 63. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- goose, good for People and pipelines that want one agent across many model providers or local models, with recipes for repeatable jobs and a desktop app for non-engineers. Ahead on Reliability, 77 against 30; Agent ergonomics, 82 against 62; Security & auth, 77 against 72; Payments & pricing, 60 against 20; Maintenance & community, 86 against 63. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; No key needed to call it; Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Devin | goose |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 30 | 77 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 62 | 82 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 72 | 77 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 63 | 86 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 69 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Devin | goose |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cognition AI, Inc. | Agentic AI Foundation (originally Block) |
| 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 | Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 13 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-23 |
| 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 | 55k stars |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (2) |