Devin
Depends
Confidence: High
Buy if you run a large engineering org drowning in backlog or security debt and can stomach usage-based pricing.
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Comparison
Devin vs OpenHands
Devin and OpenHands both land on Depends.
OpenHands
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Buy if you're an engineering team that wants self-hosted, model-agnostic agents and can absorb token costs plus security setup.
| Compare | ||
|---|---|---|
| Verdict | Depends | Depends |
| Best for | Large engineering orgs with backlog debt | Engineering teams automating repo chores |
| Who it's not for | Solo devs and small teams . massive overkill | Solo devs who just want editor autocomplete |
| Privacy | Public prompt-injection and secret-leak research exists (2025); Cognition now ships Security Swarm and a vulnerability remediation program.⁷ | Security program exists (sandboxing, action confirmation, policy integrations), but tracked CVEs . including command injection . matter for a tool that executes code autonomously. |
| Support quality | No evidence found | No support-quality evidence found. |
| Public sentiment | Developers praise Devin's code review and speed gains but consistently warn that outputs need close human supervision.10 | Users like that it's fully open source and model-agnostic, but reviews split on results, which depend heavily on the model powering it. |
| Biggest gotcha | Devin Review consumes ACUs . every automated review adds compute cost, so watch the meter¹ | CVE-2026-33718 (command injection): isolate sandboxes and review every agent action. |
Pick Devin when
- Large engineering orgs with backlog debt
- Security teams clearing vulnerability backlogs
- Multi-repo code-review automation
- Enterprises running parallel agent fleets
When Devin is not a fit
- Solo devs and small teams . massive overkill
- Anyone wanting a cheap autocomplete copilot
- Teams that can't monitor usage-based ACU spend
- Buyers needing predictable flat monthly pricing
Pick OpenHands when
- Engineering teams automating repo chores
- Enterprises needing self-hosted, policy-controlled agents
- Teams bringing their own LLM keys
- Open-source shops avoiding vendor lock-in
When OpenHands is not a fit
- Solo devs who just want editor autocomplete
- Anyone running small local models on modest hardware
- Non-technical teams expecting no-code results
- Teams unwilling to sandbox and review autonomous changes
Sources
- Devin Review documentation (ACU consumption)docs.devin.aiofficial
- Devin pricing pagedevin.aiofficial
- Devin customers pagedevin.aiofficial
- Windsurf / Devin Desktop product pagewindsurf.comofficial
- New self-serve plans for Devincognition.comofficial
- Introducing Devin Security Swarmcognition.comsecurity
- How Devin AI Can Leak Your Secrets via Multiple Meansembracethered.comsecurity
- Devin AI security vulnerability discovered live on streamnews.ycombinator.comsecurity
- Cognition raises $1B at $25B pre-moneytechcrunch.comnews
- Devin AI Reviews . G2g2.comreview
- Thoughts on a month with Devin . Hacker Newsnews.ycombinator.comreview
- Devin AI review 2025 . Techpointtechpoint.africareview
review
- Devin vs Claude Code . WeTheFlywheelwetheflywheel.comreview
review
- Did the makers of Devin AI lie about their capabilities?machine-learning-made-simple.medium.comnews