Devin vs Traversal (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Devin grades higher than Traversal: 2.4 against 1.8 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 the free plan and features. They get the same grade on value for money, ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Devin
Autonomous software engineer that runs in the cloud or locally
Which one is for you
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
Pick Traversal if
- Fits if you run a large production system and on-call is the bottleneck
- Works for platform teams that already live in Slack or Teams
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you need a price or a trial before a sales call, since neither is published
- Not for you if you run a small system, as the site frames the product around petabyte-scale data
- Not for you if you want a list of supported tools first, as the integrations page returned an error
- Watch out: it is web only, with no desktop or phone app
How we grade them
| 2.4GPADevinFair | 1.8GPATraversalWeak | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CPro is $20 a month, in the middle of the category, with Max at $200 and Teams at $80 plus $40 a user. | CNo prices or plans are published, and the pricing address returns not found. Nothing to compare to the category's $25 middle, so it stays at the ordinary grade. |
| Free plan and trial | CFree has a light quota and limited models, and Devin Cloud agents start on Pro. | FNo free plan and no trial on the site, which points to a demo instead. |
| Features | BCloud agents, pull requests, parallel sessions, desktop and CLI, and review tools; the listing shows no gap in the core job. | CAlert triage, root cause analysis, a model of your production systems and code-level fixes. The supported-tools page returned an error, so how far it reaches is not shown. |
| Ease of use | CNo store rating on record. It is a coding agent with sessions, repos and a CLI to set up. | CNo store rating on record, and it has to be connected to your observability and code tools before it finds anything. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb, Mac, Windows and Linux with seven integrations; no phone app is listed. | BWeb, with Slack, Teams, MCP and an API listed. The integrations page would not load, so the list of connected tools is not confirmed. |
| Best for | a coding agent that works in its own cloud computer | finding the cause of production incidents |
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: Devin and Traversal. How we grade
Where they differ
- Traversal also covers workflow automation.
At a glance
| Devin | Traversal | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Paid |
| Starts at | $20 per month | Not published |
| Free plan | a light quota to code with agents, limited model availability, unlimited inline edits and unlimited Tab completions. | None |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| macOS | ||
| Windows | ||
| Linux | ||
| Made by | Cognition | Traversal |
| Price read from | devin.ai | Not confirmed |
| Checked | Nov 12, 2026 | Nov 13, 2026 |
Worth knowing
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.
Traversal
- No prices, plans or free trial are published; the pricing page address returns not found and the site points to a demo.
- The site frames the product for enterprise scale, at petabyte volumes of data.
- The vendor says it never uses customer data to train models for others.
- The integrations page address returned an error when read, so supported tools are not listed here.
Key features
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.
Traversal
- Alert intelligence
- Groups related alerts, merges duplicates, suppresses noise and can adjust thresholds that fire falsely, per the product examples on the site.
- Incident root cause analysis
- Traces a failure through dependent services, such as a slow identity call behind an exhausted gateway pool, to find where it started.
- Production World Model
- A graph of services, clusters, queues and operations that the product searches to understand how a failure spreads.
- Self-healing and code resilience
- The capability list includes automated remediation such as rolling back a bad release, and checks aimed at making code more resilient.
- Slack, Teams, MCP and API
- Besides the web app, Traversal is reachable from Slack, Microsoft Teams, MCP clients and an API, and offers autonomous Workers.
Plans
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.
Traversal
Pricing could not be confirmed. See traversal.com.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Devin or Traversal?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Devin starts at $20 per month, and Traversal has no price we could confirm.
Which has a free plan, Devin or Traversal?
As of Nov 13, 2026, only Devin has a free plan. Traversal does not.
Which platforms do Devin and Traversal 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.