OpenHelm vs Devin
Choose Devin if you want a general AI software engineer for your backlog, with plans from free to $200 a month and team seats. Choose OpenHelm if the work is keeping a live product healthy and growing, with bugs from Sentry or customer email fixed through to production alongside content and support.
Facts checked . OpenHelm wins 4 rows, Devin wins 4.
| OpenHelm | Devin | Better at it | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free, then from $9 per seat a month billed yearly ($11 monthly) | Free; Pro $20 a month; Max $200 a month; Teams $80 a month plus $40 per dev seat; Enterprise custom | Tie |
| General software engineering | Focused on bugs reported against a live product | Built for a broad backlog of engineering tasks | Devin |
| Editor features | None; it works through jobs | Unlimited inline edits and Tab completions as well as agents | Devin |
| Where work comes from | Sentry issues and customer bug emails wake a job; other jobs run on schedules | Tasks you hand it from Slack, Teams, Linear or Jira | Tie |
| Repository hosts | Your product repository, through connected tools | GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket | Devin |
| Incident loop | Reproduce, fix, test, deploy, verify live, then resolve the Sentry issue | General purpose; you define the task and review the result | OpenHelm |
| Outside reports | A legitimacy gate refuses bad-faith requests and escalates them | Acts on tasks your team assigns | OpenHelm |
| Checking the work | A separate verifier judges each run from the tool-call record | You review what it produces | OpenHelm |
| Models | Your own Claude Code or Codex subscription, a local Gemma model, or hosted models | Pro and up: models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others | Tie |
| Growth and support work | SEO, content, customer email and user funnels in the same workspace | Not in scope | OpenHelm |
| Team features | Owner, Admin, Member and Viewer roles; viewers are free | Admin dashboard, central billing and priority support on Teams; SSO and VPC on Enterprise | Devin |
Choose Devin if
- You have a backlog of engineering tasks and want an AI engineer working through it.
- You work from Slack, Linear or Jira and want to hand tasks over there.
- You want AI help in the editor as well as agents in the cloud.
- You need SSO or VPC deployment.
Choose OpenHelm if
- Your product is live and there's no one on call.
- You want reported bugs fixed and verified in production without assigning them.
- You want outside reports checked for good faith before anyone touches the code.
- You also need SEO, content and customer email handled.
Price. As published on the day we checked.
- OpenHelm
- Free, then from $9 per seat a month billed yearly ($11 monthly). Runs on your own Claude Code or Codex subscription use no credits. Live prices
- Devin
- Free, Pro $20 a month, Max $200 a month, Teams $80 a month plus $40 per dev seat, and Enterprise on request. Usage over the plan quota is charged at API pricing.
Questions
How much does Devin cost?
Devin's pricing page lists Free, Pro at $20 a month, Max at $200 a month and Teams at $80 a month plus $40 per dev seat, with Enterprise on request. Overage is billed at API pricing.
Is OpenHelm a Devin alternative?
For fixing bugs on a live product, it covers the whole loop from report to production. For general feature work across a backlog, Devin is the broader tool.
Can they work side by side?
Yes. Devin can work through your planned backlog while OpenHelm handles incidents, content and customer email on the live product.
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