# Devin vs Jules (slim)

> Devin scores 55.7 (C) to Jules's 44.5 (E) 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 Jules's 44.5 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Jules leads on payments & pricing. Both do agent harnesses.

- Devin: C 55.7, rank #730 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devin.min.md
- Jules: E 44.5, rank #1000 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules.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 Reliability, 30 against 13; Security & auth, 72 against 57; Maintenance & community, 63 against 18; Transparency & trust, 69 against 44. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- Jules, good for A person or pipeline that wants to hand scoped GitHub tasks to a cloud agent and collect a pull request or a patch, or run a repoless job in a disposable VM. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 30 against 20. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Devin | Jules |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 30 | 13 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 62 | 64 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 72 | 57 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 63 | 18 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 69 | 44 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Devin | Jules |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cognition AI, Inc. | Google LLC |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.devin.ai/mcp` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Cognition's Platform Terms of Service | Proprietary service under the Google Terms of Service. The TypeScript SDK is Apache-2.0; the CLI binary is closed |
| Tools exposed | 13 | 8 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-03-09 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-06-30 | 2026-07-30 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-03-09 | 2026-10-01 |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 1.3k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.8/5 (4) |