# Devin vs Paperclip (slim)

> Paperclip scores 59 (C) on agent readiness against Devin's 55.7 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Devin leads on security & auth. Both do agent multi agent. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Paperclip scores 59 (C) on agent readiness against Devin's 55.7 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Devin leads on security & auth. Both do agent multi agent.

- Devin: C 55.7, rank #447 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devin.min.md
- Paperclip: C 59, rank #390 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paperclip.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 64. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where Paperclip loses 10 points for them.
- Paperclip, good for Someone running several coding or operations agents who wants one place for tasks, budgets, approvals and history across harnesses. Ahead on Reliability, 66 against 30; Agent ergonomics, 70 against 62; Payments & pricing, 60 against 20; Maintenance & community, 78 against 63. Also Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Devin | Paperclip |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 30 | 66 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 62 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 72 | 64 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 63 | 78 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 69 | 65 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Devin | Paperclip |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cognition AI, Inc. | Paperclip Labs, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.devin.ai/mcp` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP |  |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Cognition's Platform Terms of Service | MIT |
| Tools exposed | 13 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-06-30 | 2026-07-23 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-03-09 | 2026-07-23 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 99k stars, 60k npm/wk |