# Devin vs Qwen Code (slim)

> Qwen Code scores 72.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Devin's 55.7 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Devin leads on security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do agent harness. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Qwen Code scores 72.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Devin's 55.7 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Devin leads on security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do agent harness.

- Devin: C 55.7, rank #505 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devin.min.md
- Qwen Code: BB 72.4, rank #93 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen-code.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 53; Transparency & trust, 69 against 63. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- Qwen Code, good for Developers and CI jobs that want an open-source harness tied to no single model vendor, with run budgets and SDKs. Ahead on Reliability, 69 against 30; Schema & documentation, 91 against 80; Agent ergonomics, 85 against 62; Payments & pricing, 60 against 20; Maintenance & community, 88 against 63. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Devin | Qwen Code |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 30 | 69 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 91 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 62 | 85 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 72 | 53 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 63 | 88 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 69 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Devin | Qwen Code |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cognition AI, Inc. | Alibaba (Qwen team) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.devin.ai/mcp` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP |  |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Cognition's Platform Terms of Service | Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 13 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-06-30 | 2026-10-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-03-09 | 2026-10-01 |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 28k stars, 105k npm/wk |