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Amazon Q Developer vs Devin

A side-by-side breakdown to help you pick the right tool for your workflow.

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Amazon Q Developer

An AWS coding assistant offering inline suggestions, chat, and agentic tasks across IDEs and the console. AWS closed new IDE-plugin signups and subscriptions May 15, 2026 and IDE/subscription support ends April 30, 2027, pointing migrating users to Kiro; the AWS Console and other first-party AWS Q experiences are unaffected.

Coding
freemium
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Devin

Cognition's autonomous AI software engineer plans, writes, tests, and ships code changes independently in a cloud environment. Now on SWE-1.7.

Coding
paid
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Bottom Line

Catalog updated: August 2026

Amazon Q Developer and Devin both compete in Coding, overlapping most directly on coding. Amazon Q Developer runs on a freemium model while Devin runs on a paid-only plan, which alone may settle it if budget or a free tier is a hard requirement.

Choose Amazon Q Developer if…

Best for existing Q Developer subscribers on cloud-native, AWS-heavy projects who need suggestions aware of AWS APIs and services while planning a migration to Kiro, and its edge is deep awareness of S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, and IAM specifics that general coding assistants don't have. Genuinely useful for AWS-heavy projects, being retired with support ending April 2027, so plan a migration to Kiro. Lean toward Devin instead if researches unfamiliar codebases and runs multi-step engineering work without direction at each individual step matters more for your use case.

Choose Devin if…

Best for teams that want an AI engineer working on a coding task autonomously while they focus elsewhere, and its edge is researches unfamiliar codebases and runs multi-step engineering work without direction at each individual step. Genuinely capable and rapidly improving, the price reflects that capability and it still isn't a senior engineer replacement. Lean toward Amazon Q Developer instead if deep awareness of S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, and IAM specifics that general coding assistants don't have matters more for your use case.

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AttributeAmazon Q DeveloperDevin
CategoryCodingCoding
Pricingfreemiumpaid
Pricing DetailIDE plugin & paid subscription retiring: new signups closed May 15, 2026, support ends Apr 30, 2027 (existing subscribers may add seats), migrate to Kiro; AWS Console and first-party AWS Q experiences unaffectedFree / $20/mo Pro / $200/mo Max / Teams from $80/mo + $40/seat
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Key Features

Amazon Q Developer

  • Code generation
  • Security vulnerability scanning
  • AWS service integration
  • IDE plugins
  • Reference tracking

Devin

  • End-to-end task execution
  • Sandboxed browser and terminal
  • Long-horizon planning
  • Git integration
  • Asynchronous task runs

Pros

Amazon Q Developer

  • Best for AWS-heavy projects
  • Built-in security scanner
  • Free for individual use
  • Tracks open-source references

Devin

  • Can complete entire coding tasks autonomously
  • Works while you do other things
  • Handles complex multi-step engineering
  • Rapidly improving with each release

Cons

Amazon Q Developer

  • Less impressive outside AWS ecosystem
  • Not as capable as Cursor for complex tasks
  • JetBrains support is limited

Devin

  • Max and Teams/enterprise pricing get expensive at scale, though self-serve Free and Pro tiers exist
  • Still makes mistakes on complex tasks
  • Not a replacement for senior engineers yet

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