Devin alternatives for small engineering teams

• Already pay for Claude or ChatGPT? Claude Code cloud sessions or Codex cloud come with those plans^{9, 7, 8}.
• On GitHub and want the least setup? GitHub Copilot cloud agent turns an assigned issue into a pull request^{5, 6}.
• Live in the Cursor editor? Cursor cloud agents^{3, 4}.
• Want open source on your own machines? OpenHands².
• Want an orchestrator for many agents? Factory^{10, 11}.
• Want the whole team running and steering many agent sessions at once, with rules on every tool call? Leverage Computer^{12, 13, 14}.

1. How hands-off it is. Assign a ticket and review a pull request, or steer the agent as it works.
2. Where the agent runs. The vendor's cloud VMs, GitHub Actions, or your own machines.
3. Integrations. GitHub, Slack, Linear and Jira.
4. Price for three to ten engineers. Seats, base fees and usage.

Devin: the baseline

"Devin is an autonomous AI software engineer that can write, run and test code." You hand it a ticket or a Slack thread and come back to draft pull requests¹⁸.

Strengths

• Integrations with Slack and Teams, Linear and Jira, and GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket¹.
• Enterprise can deploy in your own VPC¹.

Weaknesses

• Hands-off by design; the work is reviewed when it is done¹⁸.
• Usage is a quota that "refreshes automatically on a daily and weekly basis", with overage at API pricing¹.

Price. Free $0; Pro $20 a month; Max $200; Teams $80 a month plus $40 per developer seat, up to 100 users; Enterprise custom¹.

OpenHands: for open source on your own machines

Strengths

• MIT-licensed and free to self-host².
• Runs OpenHands, Claude Code, Codex and other agents, "locally, in Docker, on VMs"²².

Weaknesses

• You run and secure the infrastructure.
• The Teams plan is capped at 5,000 sessions a month².

Price. Free to self-host; Teams $500 a month for up to 10 users, plus $50 per extra seat; Enterprise custom².

Cursor cloud agents: for teams that live in the Cursor editor

Strengths

• Agents "run in isolated VMs in the cloud with full development environments" and "produce merge-ready PRs"⁴.
• Start them from Slack, GitHub, Linear, the web, the iOS app or the API⁴.

Weaknesses

• Not on the Free or Plus plans^{3, 4}.
• Third-party models are billed separately by usage³.

Price. Premium $30 a month and up for individuals; Teams $30+ per user a month³.

GitHub Copilot cloud agent: for GitHub-first teams

Strengths

• "Assign work to Copilot and it creates a pull request"⁵.
• Runs in a cloud sandbox or a GitHub Actions-based environment⁶.

Weaknesses

• One pull request per task, and Actions-based sessions run for at most 59 minutes⁶.
• Usage is billed in AI credits at $0.01 each, and compute draws on your GitHub account allowance^{5, 6}.

Price. Pro $10, Pro+ $39 and Max $100 per user a month; the Free plan does not include it⁵.

OpenAI Codex: for teams already on ChatGPT

Strengths

• "Each task has its own workspace and can keep working while your computer is asleep"⁷.
• Works on GitHub or GitLab repositories and opens pull requests⁷.

Weaknesses

• Codex cloud requires a ChatGPT sign-in⁸.

Price. Included in ChatGPT plans; Business is $20 per user a month billed yearly, $25 monthly⁸.

Claude Code: for teams already on Claude

Strengths

• Cloud sessions keep running after you close your laptop, with no separate charge for the VM⁹.
• Claude can watch a pull request and respond to CI failures and review comments⁹.

Weaknesses

• Cloning and pull requests in Anthropic-hosted environments need GitHub⁹.

Price. Pro $20 a month ($17 billed yearly); Team seats $20 or $100 per seat a month billed yearly¹⁵.

Factory: for orchestrating many agents

Strengths

• Runs "Droid" in its app, the CLI, headless and on cloud computers, and can hand a large project to an orchestrator running a team of agents¹¹.
• The Free plan lets you bring your own model keys¹⁰.

Weaknesses

• Teams tops out at 10 seats; SAML and SCIM are on Business¹⁰.

Price. Free $0; Pro $20; Plus $100; Max $200 a month; Teams $60 a month plus $40 per person¹⁰.

Leverage Computer: for teams that run Claude Code or Codex every day and want to run much more of it

We make Leverage Computer. This section uses our own public pages, and it says where Leverage Computer does not fit.

Leverage Computer works differently from Devin. It is a workspace where your team runs Claude Code, Codex and Grok Build sessions, each on its own VM, and works on them together^{12, 13, 16}.

Strengths

• Steer while it works. Watch a session live, steer it, queue a message or stop it¹³.
• Use the agents you already pay for. Connect Claude, ChatGPT or Grok plans or API keys¹⁶.
• GitHub built in. Each session gets its own checkout and can open several pull requests; agents read checks and workflow logs¹⁹.
• Approvals. Deploys and other sends wait for a person by default¹⁴.
• Scheduled agents that run as a person, with their own tool limits²⁰.
• PR Auto-fix. Turn it on for a pull request, and the agent fixes failed checks, answers review comments and resolves merge conflicts until it is merged or closed¹⁹.
• Merge when ready. GitHub merges the pull request once its required checks and reviews pass¹⁹.
• Your own environments. Set variables and secrets and pick them per space or session. A secret can be added to HTTPS headers by the network, so its value never enters the VM¹².

Where Leverage Computer is the wrong choice

• You want to assign a ticket and only see the pull request. Devin, Copilot cloud agent or Codex cloud are built for that.
• You must self-host. OpenHands can; Leverage Computer does not offer it.

Price. $0.50 per agent hour on Standard; people are free; AI from your plans or credits¹⁷. Startups can apply for $500 in credits²¹.

Inside one Leverage Computer session

People

Watch it live

Steer or queue a message

Approve tool calls

Share as viewer or collaborator

Environment

Variables per space or session

Secrets added at the network

Values hidden from transcripts

The computer

Its own VM with sudo

Claude Code, Codex or Grok Build

Sleeps when idle

terminalbrowserfilesdisk

Git

Every turn committed

Team memory and skills

What it makes

Pull requests with Auto-fix

Private preview links

Published pages

Scheduled and event runs

1. How autonomous should it be? Ticket-to-PR: Devin, Copilot, Codex or Cursor. Steered sessions: Claude Code or Leverage Computer.
2. Where must code run? Vendor cloud, your own machines (OpenHands), or a VPC (Devin Enterprise)^{1, 2}.
3. What do you already pay for? Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor plans include their agents^{3, 8, 15}.

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