The best Devin alternatives in 2026: open source, free and cheaper

Quick picks

• You want it open source and on your own servers: OpenHands, the project that started as OpenDevin, now a self-hosted control center for coding agents.
• You live in the terminal and want any model: OpenCode, MIT-licensed, with about 226,000 GitHub stars.
• You already pay for ChatGPT or Claude: OpenAI Codex cloud tasks or Claude Code cloud sessions, included in plans from $20 a month.
• Your team works in GitHub: Copilot in the cloud, assigned from issues and included from Copilot Pro at $10 a month.
• You want ticket-driven agents across a company: Factory's Droids.
• You want an AI engineer with a standing job on your own Claude Code or Codex: Crewmark.

Devin alternatives compared

Prices are the lowest plan that includes the agent, from each vendor's pricing page on November 10, 2026. Stars are rounded, from the GitHub API the same day.

Open source Devin alternatives you can run today

Devin itself isn't open source. These are, and each one installs with a single command. You bring your own model key, so the software is free and you pay your model provider. Read a script before you pipe it to your shell.

1. OpenHands (formerly OpenDevin)

   Now called Agent Canvas: a self-hosted control center that runs the OpenHands agent, and also Claude Code, Codex, Gemini or OpenCode, on your laptop, in Docker or on a VM, with automations for Slack, GitHub and Linear. Free to self-host; a hosted Teams plan is $500 a month for up to 10 users.

   # OpenHands Agent Canvas (needs Node 24+ and uv)
   npm install -g @openhands/agent-canvas
   agent-canvas
   
   # OpenCode
   curl -fsSL https://opencode.ai/v2/install | bash
   
   # mini-swe-agent (the successor to SWE-agent)
   pip install uv && uvx mini-swe-agent
   
   # Cline CLI
   npm i -g cline
   
   # Goose CLI
   curl -fsSL https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/releases/download/stable/download_cli.sh | bash

2. OpenCode

   An MIT-licensed terminal agent that works with more than 200 model providers, including local models, plus a desktop app in beta. Free models are included with no account; OpenCode Go is $10 a month, and you can sign in with a ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot subscription. See OpenCode alternatives for agents like it.

3. SWE-agent and mini-swe-agent

   The Princeton and Stanford research agent that takes a GitHub issue and tries to fix it. Its README now says mini-swe-agent has superseded it, so start there. Free; you pay only for the model.

4. Cline, Goose, Aider and Kilo Code

   Cline is an Apache-licensed agent for the terminal, VS Code and JetBrains with Plan and Act modes. Goose, now under the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation, handles code and other tasks through MCP extensions. Aider and Kilo Code are popular open-source coding agents too; Devika, an early open-source Devin clone, hasn't been updated since September 2025.

Source: OpenHands on GitHub

Cloud agents from the model makers

If you want Devin's “assign it and walk away” workflow without another vendor, the model makers now offer it inside plans you may already have.

• OpenAI Codex: cloud tasks at chatgpt.com/codex, included from ChatGPT Plus at $20 a month; cloud tasks use more of your allowance, and an API key covers the CLI and IDE but not cloud features.
• Claude Code: cloud sessions from claude.ai/code, the Claude app or claude --cloud, each in an isolated Anthropic-managed VM, on Pro ($20 a month), Max, Ultra and Team plans, with no separate charge for the VM.
• Google Jules: clones your repository to a cloud VM and opens a pull request; 15 tasks a day on the base plan and 100 with Google AI Pro at $19.99 a month.
• GitHub Copilot in the cloud: assign an issue and Copilot opens a pull request; included from Copilot Pro at $10 a month, with usage billed in GitHub AI Credits.
• Cursor Cloud Agents: run in isolated VMs, started from Cursor, the web, Slack or Linear; from the $30-a-month Premium plan.

How much Devin costs in 2026

Many lists still quote a $500 team plan and $2.25 per ACU. On devin.ai today, self-serve plans don't use ACUs; billing mixes included quota with on-demand credits, and only Enterprise is billed in ACUs.

• Free: $0, with a light quota.
• Pro: $20 a month, including Devin Cloud; extra usage at API pricing.
• Max: $200 a month.
• Teams: $80 a month plus $40 a month per full developer seat, up to 100 users.
• Enterprise: custom.

An AI engineer with a standing job, on your own agent

Devin and the cloud agents wait for you to assign each task. Crewmark turns your own Claude Code or Codex into an AI software engineer with a role, a goal in numbers, working hours and a heartbeat: during its shift it wakes, takes the next issue from a board, opens a pull request and messages you when it needs a decision. It runs on the subscription you already pay for, on your computer.

1. Hire the software engineer role

   Its brief, goal and routine come set up; see the AI software engineer.

2. Put the work on a board

   Assign issues like you would to a teammate; the employee keeps status and comments current. See Claude Code kanban.

3. Let it keep going

   Set working hours, even overnight. See how to run Claude Code 24/7 and Codex long-running tasks.

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