# Devin vs Harness (slim)

> Harness scores 60.3 (C) to Devin's 55.7 (C) for multi-agent orchestration. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Harness scores 60.3 (C) on agent readiness against Devin's 55.7 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Devin leads on security & auth. Both do multi-agent orchestration.

- Devin: C 55.7, rank #723 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devin.min.md
- Harness: C 60.3, rank #570 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness-autonomous.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 57. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- Harness, good for A developer who runs Claude Code and Codex on several machines and wants their agents to hand work to each other where the person can watch. Ahead on Reliability, 35 against 30; Schema & documentation, 85 against 80; Agent ergonomics, 82 against 62; Payments & pricing, 40 against 20. Also Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Devin | Harness |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 30 | 35 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 62 | 82 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 72 | 57 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 63 | 60 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 69 | 68 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Devin | Harness |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cognition AI, Inc. | Autonomous, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.devin.ai/mcp` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP | stdio |
| Auth | API key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Cognition's Platform Terms of Service | MIT |
| Tools exposed | 13 | 7 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-17 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-06-30 |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | 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 | none | 1.3k stars |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (4) |