DevikavsTerragon
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Devika
Stition AI · Autonomous SWE
#250OSS
Panel
3.64 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.”
Terragon
Terragon Labs · Autonomous SWE
#270OSSMCP
Panel
3.76 spec wins
- Reliability
- 3.3
- Usefulness
- 4.7
- Cost
- 5.3
- Longevity
- 1.5
“It streamed a live browser view so you could watch the agent work, which was lovely right up until February.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Devika | Terragon |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Autonomous SWE | Autonomous SWE |
| Runs | local | cloud, sandbox |
| Platforms | macos, linux, windows | web, macos, linux |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | No | Yes |
| MCP server | No | Yes |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | Yes | Yes |
| Git operations | No | Yes |
| Browser control | Yes | No |
| Sandboxed execution | No | Yes |
| Multi-agent orchestration | No | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | No | Yes |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Claude, GPT, Gemini, Mistral | via managed agents (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Amp, Gemini, OpenCode) |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | Yes | No |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | byok | mixed |
| Starts at | n/a | $25/mo |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Bring your own key | Yes | YesUsers could power agents with their existing Claude or ChatGPT subscriptions, or configure their own API keys. |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| GitHub stars | 19,556 | 259 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Devika | Terragon | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 3.5 | 3.3 | 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 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 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 | 5.0 | Terragon — The design routed all agent output through pull requests, so verification borrowed the organisation's existing review process rather than inventing one. |
| La Inversora | 3.5 | 3.0 | 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 | 3.0 | 2.8 | 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 | 4.5 | 5.0 | Terragon — Apache-2.0 on the way out, `terry` for local handoff and an MCP server in the box, which is a better goodbye than most companies manage. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.