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title: "Fredrin vs Devin"
description: "Devin runs its own agent in the cloud or on your desktop, metered past a quota. Fredrin runs Claude Code and Codex on the plan you already pay for."
url: "https://www.fredrin.com/vs/devin"
---

# Fredrin vs Devin

Devin is Cognition's agent platform: autonomous sessions in its cloud machines, on your desktop or on machines you own, metered past a quota. Fredrin runs Claude Code and Codex on the plan you already pay for, one ticket per agent, steered from one board. Here's the honest comparison, and where a desktop board of parallel agents pulls ahead.

## What each tool is for

### Devin (autonomous AI engineer)

Devin is Cognition's agent platform: autonomous sessions in its cloud machines, on your desktop or on machines you own, metered past a quota.

### Fredrin (desktop agent board)

Fredrin runs Claude Code and Codex on the plan you already pay for, one ticket per agent, steered from one board.

## Fredrin vs Devin, side by side

Devin earns partial credit where it legitimately covers a row. Nothing here is stacked against it. Every Devin row was checked against its own site and docs in October 2026.

### Running agents

| Capability | Devin | Fredrin |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Many coding agents in parallel | Yes | Yes |
| Own branch and worktree per task | Yes | Yes |
| Runs on your Claude Code or Codex plan | Partial — ChatGPT sign-in only | Yes |
| Send tasks to another machine you own | Yes | Yes |
| Talk to your agents by voice | Yes | Yes |
| Inline AI completions as you type | Yes | No |

### Review and shipping

| Capability | Devin | Fredrin |
| --- | --- | --- |
| A plan with verification checks per task | Partial — plan + test video | Yes |
| Per-task workflows: review, screenshots, TDD | Yes | Yes |
| Red CI sent back to an agent to fix | Yes | Yes |
| Merge-safety score before you merge | Partial — review, no score | Yes |
| Conflicts fixed by an agent, for your review | Yes | Yes |
| Auto-merge when checks pass | Yes | Yes |

### Planning and teamwork

| Capability | Devin | Fredrin |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kanban from backlog to review | Partial — agent status board | Yes |
| Scheduled automations that start agents | Yes | Yes |
| Plan and merge approvals for a team | Partial — owner + PR reviews | Yes |
| Team chat built in | No | Yes |

### Platform and price

| Capability | Devin | Fredrin |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Desktop app on macOS, Windows and Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Flat price under heavy agent use | Partial — metered past quota | Yes |

## Why teams move from Devin to Fredrin

### The agents you already pay for

Devin runs its own agent and meters usage past each plan's quota. Fredrin launches Claude Code and Codex, the real CLIs in a real terminal, on the subscription you already hold, so running ten at once does not add a bill.

### A backlog, not just a status board

Devin's command center groups the agents that are running. Fredrin's board holds the whole queue, from backlog to done: every ticket carries a plan with verification checks, and a goal runs its tickets in dependency order.

### Your team in the loop

Every Fredrin pull request carries a merge-safety score, a project can require plan and merge approvals, and the people reviewing talk in Messages, Fredrin's built-in team chat, not in another app.

## An honest read

### Choose Devin

You want to hand off well-scoped work and come back to a tested PR. Devin's cloud sessions run in their own Linux, Windows or macOS machines, record video proof, and plug into Slack, Teams, Jira and Linear. For autonomy at enterprise scale, Devin is the stronger fit.

### Choose Fredrin

You would rather steer: run ten tickets on the Claude Code or Codex plan you already pay for, see each one's plan and checks, and ship it with a safety score from a board your team shares.

## Fredrin vs Devin: FAQ

### Is Fredrin a Devin alternative?

Yes, with a different center of gravity. Both run many agents in parallel, each on its own branch, and both open and repair their own pull requests. Devin is its own agent, built for long unattended sessions in its cloud. Fredrin runs Claude Code and Codex on your subscription, on a board built for one person steering many tickets at once.

### How is Fredrin's pricing different from Devin's?

Devin's self-serve plans run from free to $200 a month, with Teams from $80 a month, and usage past each plan's quota draws on prepaid credits at API pricing; Enterprise still bills by compute unit. Fredrin is free for up to 5 people, Pro is $20/mo and Team is $29/seat/mo for every member, from the 6th member, and its agents run on your own Claude Code or Codex plan (Devin's figures as of October 2026; illustrative, not a quote).

### Does a Fredrin agent work without me?

Each ticket's agent works on its own until it needs you, and a goal or an automation can start the next ticket by itself. What Fredrin adds is the view: the plan, the live terminal, the checks and the safety score are on the board, so you can redirect any run before it merges.

### Can I run Fredrin's agents on my own machine?

Yes. The desktop app runs agents in git worktrees on your machine, and on a paid plan you can pair other machines you own, such as a spare Mac mini, and send tickets to them.