DevinvsRoomote
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Devin
Cognition · Autonomous SWE
#139MCP
Panel
5.33 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.3
- Usefulness
- 5.8
- Cost
- 4.3
- Longevity
- 5.5
“Replaced ACUs with credits in April 2026, so now the meter runs in a unit you already understand.”
Roomote
Roo Code · Autonomous SWE
#123
Panel
6.73 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.5
- Usefulness
- 6.8
- Cost
- 7.2
- Longevity
- 6.3
“It takes tasks from Slack, Teams, Telegram and Discord, so it is now reachable in all four places you had muted.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Devin | Roomote |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Autonomous SWE | Autonomous SWE |
| Runs | cloud, sandbox, local | cloud, sandbox |
| Platforms | web, macos, linux, windows | web |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | Yes | No |
| MCP server | Yes | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | Yes | Yes |
| Git operations | Yes | Yes |
| Browser control | YesCloud sessions ship a first-party interactive Browser tool alongside the shell and IDE, with saved browser profiles for authenticated sites (https://docs.devin.ai/work-with-devin/browser-auth). | Yes |
| Sandboxed execution | YesCloud sessions run on a dedicated Devin machine built from environment blueprints and snapshots, and the Devin CLI adds OS-level isolation locally (https://docs.devin.ai/cli/sandbox). | Yes |
| Multi-agent orchestration | Yes | No |
| Headless / CI mode | Yes | Yes |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Undisclosed (Cognition-managed models) | Anthropic, OpenRouter, OpenAI |
| Bring your own model | NoA cross-provider model picker (`--model` / `/model` / config `agent.model`) selects between Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Cognition and open-source models, but every one of them is served by Cognition: the CLI model reference documents no API key, base URL, gateway, Bedrock, Vertex or Azure deployment of your own, matching pricing.byok = false. | Yes |
| Local models | NoNo base URL, gateway or local endpoint setting exists in the Devin CLI config reference (https://docs.devin.ai/cli/reference/configuration/config-file). | No |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | mixed | mixed |
| Starts at | $20/mo | $0/mo |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | NoUsage is billed in Cognition ACUs and no LLM provider key can be supplied; Devin Outposts (https://docs.devin.ai/cloud/outposts/overview) only moves session compute onto your own machines. | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | No | No |
| License | proprietary | FCL-1.0-ALv2 |
| GitHub stars | n/a | 272 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Devin | Roomote | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 6.3 | 7.0 | Roomote — Pick this if you want agent work to arrive as an ordinary pull request; pick a supervised terminal agent if you would rather watch the work than review the result. |
| El Crítico | 5.3 | 5.8 | Roomote — A task starts from a chat message, and the row describes no model of who is permitted to send one or which repositories a given sender may target. |
| El Profesor | 5.0 | 7.3 | Roomote — The loop is clone into an isolated environment, write, run the tests, capture a screenshot, then open the pull request, which is an evidence chain rather than an assertion. |
| La Inversora | 6.8 | 7.0 | Roomote — The Roo Code team already own a large extension audience, and shipping both a self-hosted build and a managed cloud is the textbook route from that audience to revenue. |
| La Jefa | 5.8 | 6.5 | Roomote — No seat cost if we host it, and it already speaks to Linear, Jira, Sentry and Notion, which means it enters the workflow my sixty engineers are already in. |
| El Hacker | 2.5 | 6.8 | Roomote — The Fair Core License is not an open-source licence today; it converts to Apache-2.0 later, which means my fork is legal on a schedule the vendor chose. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.