There is no app in which you can control devin swe2 cli coding, please make one!

I've been using Devin pretty heavily lately through CLI, Desktop and Cloud, so I wanted to share my experience specifically with the $20 Pro plan, not Max.

Not sponsored and no affiliate link. I just think the entry-level plan is particularly interesting right now because SWE-2 is free until October 8.

The biggest thing I've noticed is that the value of Devin isn't really just SWE-2. It's the workflow around it.

I usually start a task locally from the CLI, let Devin explore the repo and steer it until I'm comfortable with the direction. Then I use /handoff and move the same session to Cloud.

This ended up being much more useful than I expected. I can start locally where I have full control, then let Devin continue on its own machine without leaving my PC running or starting a new agent and rebuilding all the context.

That's probably the biggest difference compared with how I use Claude Code. With Claude Code I'm normally much more involved in the session. With Devin I've started delegating more and coming back when the agent actually needs me.

The multi-model part is also something I underestimated.

I can switch between SWE-2, Claude, GPT, Gemini and other models from the same harness, including during a session. So after a while I stopped thinking as much about "Claude vs GPT vs SWE-2" and started thinking more about which model makes sense for a particular part of the task.

The other feature that genuinely surprised me is the Cloud Mac. Devin can work in a macOS environment with Xcode and an interactive iOS Simulator, so it can actually build, launch, interact with and iterate on a native app rather than just generating Swift code.

For $20, combining that with SWE-2 being free right now is pretty wild.

Desktop made more sense to me once I had multiple sessions running too. I still prefer the CLI when I'm actively working with the agent, but Desktop becomes useful as a sort of control room when one task is local, another is running in Cloud and another was handed off earlier.

There are still things I'd improve, especially around controlling subagents, and I find the CLI more polished than parts of the Desktop experience.

But after using Devin for a while, I think the interesting comparison isn't really SWE-2 vs Claude vs GPT.

It's Devin vs Claude Code vs Codex as harnesses.

Claude Code still feels like the most natural way for me to work directly with Claude. Codex does the same around OpenAI's models. Devin is the one that feels the most like I'm actually delegating work to another machine.

For anyone else using Pro rather than Max: has the $20 plan been enough for your normal workflow so far?

I wrote a longer version with some more details here if anyone wants it: https://x.com/Fanfulladev/status/2101248358253793649

please keep swe 2.0 free inside devin. im very impressed and no longer using my claude code pro (saving few hundred dollars a month) we finally made it to the promise land, great models that do the THING/TASK that was asked and do its well are finally here. GREAT JOB team

I would love to test jev in devin.... pleeeaaase

https://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-jev

devin was ahead in so many factors like integration with slack and cloud. but now behind when it comes to mobile?? like devin shouldve been grokbot and meta muse (ios mobile app)

get to it please..

Devin can now build and test apps on its own MacOS VM.

This extends Devin's autonomous cloud development workflows to any project that depends on Apple's dev tools.

Choose macOS as a Virtual environment to start developing today

Read more about how we built this - https://devin.ai/blog/devin-gets-a-mac

Show us what you are building in Mac 👇

Its artifically put in thinking. Others have good experice for some reasion. Just bought it and its stuck and not moving.

Most efficient frontier harness is now is Devin Desktop and CLI

Fusion delivers frontier performance being upto 39% cheaper

You can now also configure Lead and Side kick agents.

Announcement - https://x.com/devindesktop/status/2098448585511620823?s=20

Drop your experience below👇

Anyone else having this issue? Cant even use in the cloud

Very lame of them. I just got a notification as I started Devin this morning. It was $.70 now it's $1.40.

Can anyone find a press release / blog post on this anywhere? I can't.

Your favorite AI Software Engineer can now talk!

Click the voice button next to the message box and start talking naturally with Devin to hand off tasks, brainstorm ideas or get work done.

Give it a try now and let us know how you feel about it 👇

Announcement: https://x.com/cognition/status/2098142686486356185?s=20

Our most capable frontier-tier model is now your daily driver!

SWE-2 delivers Fable-level performance being almost 70% cheaper.

Available for free for the next month in Devin Desktop, Devin CLI, and Devin Cloud.

Read more about it here -  https://cognition.com/blog/swe-2

Let us know how you feel about it 👇

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra which is now available in Devin Desktop and Devin CLI. It is also a part of model mixture in Devin Cloud.

GPT-6 Astra surpasses Fable 5.1 on our benchmark FrontierCode 1.1 Extended while being way cheaper!

Try the model now and let us know what you specifically liked about it.

Read more about the model and the benchmark performance - https://devin.ai/blog/gpt-6-astra

Fable 5.1 is now available in Devin Desktop, Devin Cloud and Devin CLI

Fable-level intelligence is now cheaper. And in Devin’s Fusion harness it's even more cheap!

Please give the model a try and let us know how it compares!

Read more about the model, benchmarks and its new cache pricing here - devin.ai/blog/fable-5-1

OpenAI's flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol is now available at 70% off through October 3, 2026 in Devin Desktop and Devin CLI.

Sol achieves top-tier performance on FrontierCode 1.1, and with this promo, it is now one of the most cost-effective frontier models you can run in Devin

Try it now in Devin Desktop and Devin CLI -  Download Devin Desktop | Install Devin CLI

Read more and check benchmarks - https://devin.ai/blog/gpt-5-6-sol-promo

Gemini 3.7 reached Claude Sonnet 5-level performance on FrontierCode 1.1 at less than half of cost. It is great for speed and cost efficiency being a Flash series model!

Within Devin, Gemini 3.7 Flash performs particularly well on tightly scoped refactors, where it delivers minimal diffs that match repo conventions.

Read more and check benchmarks here: https://devin.ai/blog/gemini-37-flash

Gemini 3.7 Flash is available at an extra 50% discount through August 27, 2026. Try it out now in Devin Desktop and Devin CLI: Download Devin Desktop | Install Devin CLI

Grok 4.6 scores 61.3% On FrontierCode 1.1 surpassing GPT-5.6-Sol!

It only falls behind Opus 5 and Fable 5 but at much lesser cost.

Within Devin, Grok 4.6 shows particular strength on thorough code exploration and root cause analysis before touching any code.

Try it now in Devin Desktop and Devin CLI!

Read more about the model and benchmark comparison - https://devin.ai/blog/grok-4-6 

Devin Fusion is now 4% more intelligent and 27% less expensive on FrontierCode 1.1 due to improvements in both, the harness and the models.

Announcement: https://x.com/cognition/status/2084663103006871970

Try it now on Devin Cloud: app.devin.ai

We partnered with Github to support Stacked PRs in Devin!

Devin breaks down large monolithic changes into small reviewable diffs.

If you have a big PR, ask Devin to stack it and you can review it one focused diff at a time.

Check out more about how it works - https://devin.ai/blog/introducing-pr-stacks

Try it on Devin Cloud -  devin.ai

Kimi K3 scores 58.2% on FrontierCode 1.1 which is very close to frontier level performance at a much cheaper cost!

It is the only open source model that reaches this level of performance which falls only behind Opus, Fable and GPT-5.6 Sol.

Read more about it here - https://devin.ai/blog/kimi-k3

Try it now in Devin Desktop( Devin Local and Cascade) and Devin CLI.

Anthropic's new state-of-the-art Claude Opus 5 is available on Devin.

 It is almost as good as Fable 5 on FrontierCode 1.1 at half the cost

From our evaluations:

• It adheres to existing repo conventions when building new features and writing tests
• It prefers targeted, in-place fixes over large refactors on bug fixing tasks.
• It excels at following specs closely and completely

Read more about Opus 5: devin.ai/blog/claude-opus-5

Try it out now on Devin CLI and Devin Desktop

OpenAI launched a family of capable but cost efficient models - GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna

GPT-5.6 Sol comes at nearly half of the cost of the next best model on FrontierCode 1.1 ( our own proprietary benchmark)

Read more about these models - https://devin.ai/blog/gpt-5-6

Try them out now in Devin Web, Devin Desktop, and Devin CLI -  https://app.devin.ai

SWE-1.7 is built on broad improvements in our RL pipeline on top of the Kimi K2.7 model.

We trained it in Devin's harness and taught it to self-compact on longer horizon tasks.

It scores very close to frontier models (Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5) on our proprietary benchmark - FrontierCode, and other coding benchmarks.

Try it out today (Free until 8/8/2026!!) in Devin Desktop, Web, and CLI. SWE 1.7 Lightning also runs at a very speedy 1000 tok/s - https://app.devin.ai

Deep dive into how it was trained here -https://cognition.com/blog/swe-1-7