# Devin vs mini-swe-agent (slim)

> mini-swe-agent scores 56.7 (C) to Devin's 55.7 (C) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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mini-swe-agent scores 56.7 (C) on agent readiness against Devin's 55.7 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Devin leads on schema & documentation, security & auth, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do agent harnesses.

- Devin: C 55.7, rank #730 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devin.min.md
- mini-swe-agent: C 56.7, rank #698 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mini-swe-agent.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 Schema & documentation, 80 against 58; Security & auth, 72 against 56; Maintenance & community, 63 against 49; Transparency & trust, 69 against 51. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where mini-swe-agent loses 4 points for them.
- mini-swe-agent, good for Benchmark runs, research baselines and RL or fine-tuning pipelines that want a minimal, readable agent with a linear trajectory, and for people who want to read every line of their harness. Ahead on Reliability, 70 against 30; Agent ergonomics, 69 against 62; Payments & pricing, 60 against 20. Also No key needed to call it; Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Devin | mini-swe-agent |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 30 | 70 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 58 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 62 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 72 | 56 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 63 | 49 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 69 | 51 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Devin | mini-swe-agent |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cognition AI, Inc. | SWE-bench team (Princeton and Stanford) |
| 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 | MIT |
| Tools exposed | 13 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-07-23 |
| 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 | 8.6k stars, 4.4M PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (4) |