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Cursor vs Devin

PickDuel generated this matchup from public website evidence · Updated 22 Sept 2026

Cursor

cursor.com

83

4.2
Devin

windsurf.com

83

4.2
VS

Too close to call.

Cursor's pricing page is scannable, Devin's reads like raw text soup

COMMUNITY PICK

Community verdict is still open. The first back decides the Community Pick.

One tap, no signup. Your back moves that company up the community board; more backers make it the Community Pick. The score doesn't change.

WHICH SHOULD YOU CHOOSE?

Both are defensible: it depends on which of these you actually care about.

Choose Cursor if…

  • you can't afford problems with pricing40 reviewers raise it about Devin

Choose Devin if…

  • you can't afford problems with pricing and token consumption23 reviewers raise it about Cursor

Worked out from prices read on each company's own site and what reviewers repeatedly say, both linked below. We don't pick a winner: the right answer depends on which of these you care about.

AT A GLANCE

SEARCH INTEREST

Cursor gets 77% of Google searches between the two.

CursorDevin

Cursor
-25% 3 mo
Devin
-23% 3 mo

Google Trends, 12 months, searches for “Cursor” and “Devin”.

WEB POPULARITY

Cursor
#3,561273 30d
Devin
#14,630405 30d

CursorDevin

Worldwide rank among the top 1M sites (Tranco). Lower number = more visited.

BIGGEST GAP

Pricing clarity

Cursor is 2 of 15 points ahead of Devin.

Cursor
Devin

THE FIX THAT FLIPS IT

Devin should pull its customer case study metrics up onto the homepage and clean up the pricing page layout so the four plans read as distinct cards instead of one run-on paragraph.

See the full move

WHY IT'S CLOSE

Both land at 83 because each wins where the other doesn't. Cursor's pricing page is four clean tiers with checkmarks, while Devin's biggest proof points sit one click deeper on a dedicated customers page. Neither site has an obvious flaw big enough to break the tie.

  1. 1

    Pricing page formatting

    EDGE CURSOR

    Cursor's /pricing page lays out Hobby, Individual ($20/mo), Teams ($40/user/mo) and Enterprise in distinct cards with bullet lists. Devin's pricing page renders plan details as one run-on string, 'Free$0DownloadProPOPULAR$20permonth...', which is harder to parse at a glance even though the same tiers exist underneath.

    Cursor · siteDevin · site

  2. 2

    Where the proof lives

    EVEN

    Cursor puts Jensen Huang and Patrick Collison quotes right on the homepage, so trust hits before you scroll. Devin's strongest evidence, like GE Aerospace's 8-month migration cut to 8 days and EBANX writing 92% of merged PRs with Devin, sits on a separate /customers page a first-time visitor may never reach.

    Cursor · siteDevin · site

  3. 3

    Named workflows on the product page

    EDGE DEVIN

    Devin's homepage spells out specific jobs: Spaces for Git worktrees, Supercomplete, ACP-based multi-model handoff, and cloud handoff for closing your laptop. Cursor's product page lists comparable capabilities (Composer, MCPs, Git checkpoints) but describes them in the more generic terms of planning, designing and debugging.

    Devin · siteCursor · site

HEAD TO HEAD

Cursor vs Devin compared on PickDuel
MeasureCursorDevin
PickDuel score83/10083/100
Rating4.24.2
Positioning20/2522/25
Product clarity16/2016/20
Trust16/2016/20
Conversion16/2016/20
Pricing clarity15/1513/15
Web popularity rank#3,561#14,630
Share of Google searches77%23%
Community backers00

Cursor

GOOD AT

Cursor's pricing page is genuinely easy to compare, and its homepage front-loads CEO-level quotes from NVIDIA and Stripe before you scroll past the fold.

COSTING THEM

There's no visible legal entity or contact address anywhere in the pages we read, which is thin for a tool billed at enterprise scale.

Devin

GOOD AT

Devin's customers page is stacked with named companies and hard numbers, like Litera's 90% cut to regression cycles and Nubank's code refactors, which reads as harder proof than most testimonial walls.

COSTING THEM

Both the homepage and pricing page show up as dense, unformatted text blocks rather than clean cards, which buries the plan details a buyer actually wants.

THE OVERTAKE MOVE

Devin should pull its customer case study metrics up onto the homepage and clean up the pricing page layout so the four plans read as distinct cards instead of one run-on paragraph.

Fix it, then rescan in a week to see if the result flips.

QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK

Which is better, Cursor or Devin?

Cursor and Devin are tied at 83/100 on PickDuel. Both land at 83 because each wins where the other doesn't. The score rates how clearly each public website explains the product, earns trust, shows pricing and asks for the next step. It is not a judgement of product quality.

What does Cursor do?

AI coding agent and code editor that turns ideas into software across desktop and CLI. (Based on cursor.com.)

What does Devin do?

An agentic IDE allowing engineers to plan, delegate, review, and ship code with AI agents. (Based on windsurf.com.)

How do Cursor and Devin compare on pricing?

Cursor: Transparent pricing page listing Hobby (Free), Individual ($20/mo), Teams ($40/user/mo), and Enterprise with detailed feature matrices. Devin: Plans are transparently listed with Free ($0), Pro ($20/mo), Max ($200/mo), and Teams ($80/mo + $40/seat).

Who does the community back, Cursor or Devin?

Nobody has backed either side yet. Anyone can back one side, once, with no signup. Backing never changes the PickDuel score.

How is the PickDuel score calculated?

PickDuel reads up to three public pages per website and runs one web search. A language model rates 11 specific signals from 0 to 5, and fixed code turns them into a 0-100 score: positioning 25, product clarity 20, trust 20, conversion 20, pricing clarity 15.

SOURCES

PickDuel scores public website communication, not product quality. Backers never change the score. How scoring works

THE SHORTLIST

Almost nobody decides between two. These are the businesses the public puts next to Cursor, with the reason each one comes up — checked against their own sites and their public reviews, not our opinion.

  • Devin

    An agentic IDE allowing engineers to plan, delegate, review, and ship code with AI agents.

    83
    • Already compared head to head
    • Same market · AI Code Editor
    See the duelWhat its customers say
  • Lovable

    AI-powered software engineer that turns natural language prompts into full-stack web applications.

    79
    • Praised for ease of use · 36 of 77 public reviews
    What its customers say
  • Bolt.new

    AI-powered platform to build, deploy, and host full-stack web applications from text prompts.

    77
    • Praised for ease of use · 6 of 78 public reviews
    What its customers say
  • Base44

    Build full-stack web applications, websites, and AI agents using natural language prompts.

    72
    • Praised for customer support · 14 of 80 public reviews
    What its customers say
  • Replit

    AI-powered platform to build, collaborate on, and deploy apps and websites from prompts.

    76
    • Already compared head to head
    See the duelWhat its customers say

The same rules run in both directions: Cursor is on 2 other shortlists for the same reasons. Nothing here rates anyone's product, and no business can pay to be added or removed. Something wrong? Tell us

YOUR TURN

Who beats your business?

Your score, your closest rival and the one fix that would flip it. About a minute.