Cleric vs Devin (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Devin grades higher than Cleric: 2.4 against 2.0 out of 4.0.
Checked Nov 12, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 12, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA
Devin grades higher on value for money and features. They get the same grade on the free plan, ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Cleric
AI agents that watch production changes and alerts
Devin
Autonomous software engineer that runs in the cloud or locally
Which one is for you
Pick Cleric if
- Fits if a team spends hours a week checking deploys and triaging alerts
- Works for companies that already chat in Slack or Teams and want answers there
Look elsewhere if
- Pricey if you are small: nothing is listed below $700 a month
- Tight if you want one price, as credits are used per change, per issue and per chat minute
- Watch out: scheduled agents, the Connector, Okta/SAML sign-in and the audit log are not in Team
- Watch out: unused credits roll over only one month, up to twice the monthly allowance
- Not for you if you want to try it right away, because the evaluation credits need approval
Pick Devin if
- Fits if you want an agent to take a task and send back a pull request
- Works for a developer who will pay $20 a month for cloud agents
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you stay free: a light quota and limited models
- Watch out: quotas refresh daily and weekly, and extra use is bought at API pricing
- Pricey if you use it heavily: Max is $200 a month
- Not for you if you need more than 100 users, as Teams caps there
How we grade them
| 2.0GPAClericFair | 2.4GPADevinFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | DTeam is $700 a month for 1,400 credits, far above the category's $150 dearest-tenth line. Each change checked costs 2 credits and each Issue investigated costs 10. | CPro is $20 a month, in the middle of the category, with Max at $200 and Teams at $80 plus $40 a user. |
| Free plan and trial | C1,000 evaluation credits with no time limit, but only after approval, so you cannot just sign up and try it. | CFree has a light quota and limited models, and Devin Cloud agents start on Pro. |
| Features | CChange checks, alert investigation, memory of past incidents and custom agents. Scheduled agents and the audit log are left off the Team plan. | BCloud agents, pull requests, parallel sessions, desktop and CLI, and review tools; the listing shows no gap in the core job. |
| Ease of use | CNo store rating on record, and it has to be wired into your alerting and chat tools first. | CNo store rating on record. It is a coding agent with sessions, repos and a CLI to set up. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb, with Slack, Teams, MCP and a list of eight integrations. No desktop or phone app. | BWeb, Mac, Windows and Linux with seven integrations; no phone app is listed. |
| Best for | checking changes and chasing alerts for engineering teams | a coding agent that works in its own cloud computer |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Cleric and Devin. How we grade
Price against what you get
Cleric starts at $700 a month and scores 2.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Devin starts at $20 a month and scores 2.7.
Devin scores higher and starts $680 a month lower. Of the other AI agents on the chart, 37 score higher than Cleric for less, and 4 score higher than Devin for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- Cleric also covers workflow automation.
At a glance
| Cleric | Devin | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free plan |
| Starts at | $700 per month for 1,400 credits | $20 per month |
| Free plan | None | a light quota to code with agents, limited model availability, unlimited inline edits and unlimited Tab completions. |
| Free trial | 1,000 evaluation credits after approval, with no time limit. | None listed |
| Web | ||
| macOS | ||
| Windows | ||
| Linux | ||
| Made by | Cleric | Cognition |
| Price read from | cleric.ai | devin.ai |
| Checked | Nov 13, 2026 | Nov 12, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Cleric
- Credits are $0.50 each: 2 per change verified, 10 per Issue investigated, and 1 per started minute of chat after the first 30 seconds.
- Monthly credits roll over for one month, up to twice the monthly allocation; annual plans use one pool for the year.
- Scheduled agents, the Cleric Connector, Okta/SAML sign-in and the audit log are not in the Team plan.
- The pricing page lists no self-serve plan below $700 per month; evaluation credits require approval.
Devin
- Usage is quota-based and refreshes daily and weekly; going over means buying extra usage at API pricing.
- Cloud agents (Devin Cloud) start on the Pro plan; Free has only a light quota.
- Teams charges an $80 monthly base plus $40 per full user and caps at 100 users.
- The pricing page does not say whether prices change with monthly or annual billing.
Key features
Cleric
- Change verification
- Each production change, usually one per pull request, is watched for up to 14 days. If a regression appears, Cleric reports the cause and proposes a fix.
- Alert investigation
- An Issue can start from an alert, monitor or failed deploy. Cleric looks for the root cause, verifies it and proposes a fix; repeat alerts join the open Issue.
- Operational memory
- Cleric stores service relationships, infrastructure patterns, team guidance and earlier results for use in later investigations.
- Custom agents and routing
- Teams can define agents with their own instructions and send matching alerts from Slack or Microsoft Teams to them. Scheduled agents need the Pro plan.
- Slack, Teams, web and MCP
- Cleric can be used in Slack, Microsoft Teams or the web app, and from MCP clients such as Claude Code and Cursor. It can also call your own MCP servers.
Devin
- Cloud agents with their own computer
- Devin spins up Windows, Mac and Linux virtual machines as needed to build, test in a browser and record what it built.
- Pull requests from a task
- Sessions start from a prompt or a chat message and end with a pull request, with its tests and a summary of the change.
- Parallel sessions
- A large task can be split across parallel cloud agents that report back. Pro and Max allow up to 10 concurrent sessions.
- Devin Desktop and CLI
- A local app and a terminal CLI run Devin on your own machine, with Tab completions and inline edits in the desktop app.
- Wiki and review tools
- The product menu lists Wiki, Review, Automations and Security sessions, and the pricing page lists DeepWiki and a Devin API.
Plans
Cleric
Team$700
per month for 1,400 credits ($8,400 billed annually)
Unlimited users and integrations, custom agents and alert routing, memory and investigation history. Email support.
Pro$1,500
per month for 3,000 credits ($18,000 billed annually)
Team plus scheduled agents and monitors, the Cleric Connector for private resources, Okta and SAML/OIDC, and an audit log.
Scale$3,000
per month for 6,000 credits ($36,000 billed annually)
Pro plus a shared Slack channel with Cleric engineers.
EnterpriseCustom
Annual billing only, with custom retention and region, a negotiated DPA, vendor security reviews and a customer success manager.
Devin
Free$0
Light quota to code with agents, limited models, unlimited inline edits and Tab completions.
Pro$20
per month
Higher quotas, access to frontier models, Devin Cloud agents and extra usage bought at API pricing.
Max$200
per month
Everything in Pro with significantly higher usage quotas, for heavy daily use.
Teams$80
per month, plus $40 per full user
Up to 100 users, shared sessions, SSO, three usage-cost tiers and central billing.
EnterpriseCustom
SCIM, role-based access, centralized admin controls, a dedicated deployment option and account management.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Cleric or Devin?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Devin is cheaper to start with: $20 a month, against $700 a month for Cleric. Cleric starts at $700 per month for 1,400 credits, and Devin starts at $20 per month.
Which has a free plan, Cleric or Devin?
As of Nov 13, 2026, only Devin has a free plan. Cleric does not, though it has a free trial.
Which platforms do Cleric and Devin run on?
As of Nov 13, 2026, only Devin lists macOS, Windows and Linux apps. Both list a web app. A platform missing from a listing is one its maker's pages did not mention.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.