# Devin vs Parallax (slim)

> Devin scores 55.7 (C) to Parallax's 37.9 (F) for multi-agent orchestration. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Devin scores 55.7 (C) on agent readiness against Parallax's 37.9 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Parallax leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do multi-agent orchestration.

- Devin: C 55.7, rank #723 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devin.min.md
- Parallax: F 37.9, rank #1056 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallax-agents.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 29; Agent ergonomics, 62 against 42; Security & auth, 72 against 43; Maintenance & community, 63 against 56; Transparency & trust, 69 against 48. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- Parallax, good for A developer on a Mac who runs several coding agents across Claude and Codex subscriptions and wants cross-lab review of finished sessions on GitHub. Ahead on Reliability, 40 against 30; Payments & pricing, 30 against 20.

| Category | Devin | Parallax |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 30 | 40 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 29 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 62 | 42 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 72 | 43 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 63 | 56 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 69 | 48 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Devin | Parallax |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cognition AI, Inc. | Conifer Solutions, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.devin.ai/mcp` | no (local only) |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Cognition's Platform Terms of Service | Proprietary, under Conifer's Terms of Service (Conifer Solutions, Inc.). The GitHub repository holds the README and release binaries, not the source |
| 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 |  |
| Agent reviews | none | 2/5 (4) |