# Devin vs HarnessRouter (slim)

> Devin scores 55.7 (C) to HarnessRouter's 53.2 (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 HarnessRouter's 53.2 (D), and leads in 1 of 7 scored categories. HarnessRouter leads on reliability, agent ergonomics, payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do agent harnesses.

- Devin: C 55.7, rank #723 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devin.min.md
- HarnessRouter: D 53.2, rank #796 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harnessrouter.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 58. Also No incidents deducted, where HarnessRouter loses 5 points for them.
- HarnessRouter, good for A product team that wants to run Codex, Claude Code, Hermes or 23 other harnesses server-side behind one task, session and file contract, and switch between them by changing an ID. Ahead on Reliability, 35 against 30; Agent ergonomics, 73 against 62; Payments & pricing, 25 against 20; Maintenance & community, 72 against 63. Also Open source.

| Category | Devin | HarnessRouter |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 30 | 35 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 83 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 62 | 73 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 72 | 58 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 25 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 63 | 72 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 69 | 72 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Devin | HarnessRouter |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cognition AI, Inc. | HarnessRouter (Lumentree Corporation) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.devin.ai/mcp` | `https://api.harnessrouter.ai` |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Cognition's Platform Terms of Service | Apache-2.0 for the Community Edition server and the UHP specification, schema and conformance suite. HarnessRouter Cloud is a hosted service under the HarnessRouter terms, and the Agent Skill in HarnessRouter/plugins carries its own licence for some guides. |
| Tools exposed | 13 | 0 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-16 |
| 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 | 3.1k stars |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (4) |