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Devin is an autonomous AI software engineer. Delegate complete tasks — from bug fixes to multi-repo migrations — and let Devin plan, code, review, and ship while you focus on the work only you can do.
Use cases
Use Devin to plan and execute complex engineering tasks, from code migrations to on-call incident resolution.
PR review & visual QA
- Automatically identify and resolve bugs
- Visual QA with full browser and desktop use
- Intelligently organize code diffs for review

Documentation
- Auto-generate documentation and system diagrams for legacy codebases.
- Comprehensive visibility into systems that your team hasn't built.
Code migration + refactors
- Assign a fleet of agents to migrate all repos in parallel
- Accelerate all modernizations — COBOL, .NET, Talend, legacy ETL, and more.
- Complete audibility at each step.
Scheduled chores and application development
- Schedule daily QA and release notes
- Continuously review and address user feedback
- Maintain documentation

Issue triage + bug fixing
- Investigate Datadog incidents immediately
- Intelligently route Slack bug reports
- Automatically fix CI failures

And many others
- Automated ticket resolution
- Unit and E2E testing
- Performance optimization
- Web research and scraping
- Repetitive browser task automation
Devin vs. Cursor
See how they compare
Cursor is an AI code editor. Devin is an autonomous AI engineer. Here’s how they differ across the work that matters to a team.
Feature
DevinThe AI software engineer
CursorThe AI code editor
Product model
- Primary experienceDevinAutonomous cloud agentCursorAI-powered IDE
- Works without supervisionPlan, code, test, review, and ship a complete task end-to-end without hand-holding.DevinCursor
- Inline code completions in your editorDevinCursor
- Runs on its own cloud machineDevin spins up a sandboxed VM for every session, so work happens in the cloud instead of on your laptop.DevinCursorSometimes
Knowledge and memory
- Auto-generated codebase wikiDeepWiki keeps a living, searchable map of every repo you connect — architecture, data flows, and conventions, always up to date.DevinCursor
- Institutional knowledge that compounds over timeDevin builds shared memory from past sessions, Playbooks, and team feedback — so every future run starts smarter.DevinCursorLimited
Security and enterprise
- SOC 2 Type 2DevinCursor
- Deploy in your virtual private cloud (VPC)DevinCursor
- SAML/OIDC SSO and SCIMDevinCursor
- Audit logs and fine-grained access controlsDevinCursorEnterprise only
Comparison reflects publicly available information about Cursor as of publication. Features and plans change; check each vendor’s site for the latest.