# Devin vs Kiro CLI (slim)

> Kiro CLI scores 59.9 (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 agent harness. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Kiro CLI scores 59.9 (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 agent harness.

- Devin: C 55.7, rank #447 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devin.min.md
- Kiro CLI: C 59.9, rank #370 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kiro-cli.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 66. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where Kiro CLI loses 4 points for them.
- Kiro CLI, good for Teams on AWS that want one agent configuration across terminal, IDE and web, with central permission policy, prompt logging to their own S3 bucket and IAM Identity Centre sign-in. Ahead on Reliability, 57 against 30; Agent ergonomics, 67 against 62; Payments & pricing, 40 against 20; Maintenance & community, 73 against 63. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Devin | Kiro CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 30 | 57 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 79 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 62 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 72 | 66 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 63 | 73 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 69 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Devin | Kiro CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cognition AI, Inc. | Amazon Web Services |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.devin.ai/mcp` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP |  |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Cognition's Platform Terms of Service | Proprietary. Licensed as AWS Content under the AWS Customer Agreement and the AWS Intellectual Property Licence (https://kiro.dev/license/). The GitHub repository is the public issue tracker and doesn't hold the source |
| Tools exposed | 13 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-06-30 | 2026-08-14 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-03-09 | 2026-05-18 |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 4.4k stars |