Devin vs Hyper (2026)

Devin

by Cognition

Hyper

by ASI Flow, Inc.

Pros

• ✓Cognition names Citi, Mercedes-Benz, Goldman Sachs, Elevance, Dell, Santander and the U.S. Army and Navy among customers, publishes more than thirty customer stories, and reported crossing $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate in September 2026.
• ✓Devin Desktop, formerly Windsurf, is bundled into every paid plan, so Pro at $20 per month covers both autonomous cloud sessions and agentic coding in a local IDE under one subscription rather than two.
• ✓MCP works in both directions. Cognition publishes an MCP server at mcp.devin.ai that external agents connect into to manage sessions, playbooks and schedules, and Devin consumes external servers through its MCP Marketplace.

Limitations

• –Devin Cloud sessions run asynchronously, so tasks take minutes to hours rather than the near-instant responses developers expect in an editor. Live debugging and pair programming move to Devin Desktop or the CLI, which run against the same usage quota.
• –Cognition publishes no autonomous task-completion rate. Its 89% figure measures share of commits inside Cognition itself rather than the proportion of assigned tasks completed, and its own case-study language describes a human approving changes on large migrations.
• –Usage past the included quota bills at API rates, so monthly spend is hard to predict for teams running several concurrent sessions, and Enterprise moves to Agent Compute Unit billing with no published rate.

Pros

• ✓Every plan publishes its price and included credit, and each session runs under a hard spending cap with costs shown live.
• ✓Tests and browser flows run in a sandbox and are logged in a verification ledger, Autopilot re-checks each task in a separate verifier before marking it done, and approvals gate deploys, merges, secrets and extra spend.
• ✓Two MCP servers, a REST API, Python and TypeScript SDKs and an A2A endpoint let other agents delegate work to Hyper.

Limitations

• –Verification covers what tests and browser flows can observe: ASI Flow states that it does not prove business correctness.
• –No SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification yet: ASI Flow lists SOC 2 as on its roadmap and ISO 27001 as planned.
• –Independent validation is still early: two reviews on Product Hunt so far, ASI Flow's open AppBench covers six tasks, and its Terminal-Bench 2.1 run is being published as it runs with no completion rate yet.