CodegenvsDevika
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Codegen
ClickUp (formerly Codegen) · Autonomous SWE
#276MCP
Panel
2.25 spec wins
- Reliability
- 2.5
- Usefulness
- 3.0
- Cost
- 2.3
- Longevity
- 1.0
“The domain now hosts a directory of AI coding tools, so the agent's final task was listing its own replacements.”
Devika
Stition AI · Autonomous SWE
#250OSS
Panel
3.67 spec wins
- Reliability
- 3.2
- Usefulness
- 3.5
- Cost
- 6.3
- Longevity
- 1.3
“Nineteen thousand stars and nothing since 2025, which is the open-source version of a standing ovation on the way out.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Codegen | Devika |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Autonomous SWE | Autonomous SWE |
| Runs | cloud, sandbox | local |
| Platforms | web | macos, linux, windows |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | Yes | No |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | Yes | Yes |
| Git operations | Yes | No |
| Browser control | No | Yes |
| Sandboxed execution | Yes | No |
| Multi-agent orchestration | Yes | No |
| Headless / CI mode | Yes | No |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Claude | Claude, GPT, Gemini, Mistral |
| Bring your own model | No | Yes |
| Local models | No | Yes |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | seat | byok |
| Starts at | n/a | n/a |
| Free tier | No | Yes |
| Bring your own key | No | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | No | Yes |
| License | proprietary | MIT |
| GitHub stars | 518 | 19,556 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Codegen | Devika | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 1.8 | 3.5 | Devika — Do not adopt: this has been quiet since 2025 and the honest replacement for anyone who wanted an open autonomous engineer is OpenHands. |
| El Crítico | 2.0 | 3.5 | Devika — The authors described it as early and experimental from the start, and nothing since has changed that label, which makes it the rare project whose warning aged accurately. |
| El Profesor | 3.5 | 3.5 | no preference |
| La Inversora | 2.0 | 3.5 | Devika — Stition AI built the most-forked answer to a funded competitor and never converted any of that attention into a company, which is the recurring story of that wave. |
| La Jefa | 2.0 | 3.0 | Devika — There is no supplier, no support and no unattended mode, so this is an engineer's side project rather than anything sixty people could be issued. |
| El Hacker | 2.0 | 4.5 | Devika — MIT, six providers plus Ollama for local weights, and installation is a git clone with pip install -r requirements.txt, which tells you exactly what era this is from. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.