Devin 2.0 Released; New Plan Offers 96% Price Cut

US-based Cognition AI has announced an update to Devin, which was dubbed the ‘world’s first AI software engineer’ upon its release last year. Now, Devin 2.0, its updated version, offers a new agent-native IDE experience. 

Devin 2.0 supports multiple parallel instances, each with an interactive cloud-based IDE. Additionally, the latest update allows developers to take control while providing collaborative and fully automated approaches. Furthermore, it enables developers to refine code and run tests within the IDE.

Cognition AI also announced additional features for Devin, including Interactive Planning, Devin Search, and Devin Wiki.

Interactive Planning offers a comprehensive, editable task plan at the beginning of each session, derived from an analysis of the codebase. Devin Search enables developers to query their codebase with referenced answers and includes a Deep Mode for more intricate queries. Devin Wiki automatically refreshes repository documentation, encompassing architecture diagrams and source links.

All these features can be accessed on Devin’s web-based platform. 

Moreover, Devin now offers a flexible, entry-level pay-as-you-go plan starting at just $20. This plan includes a specified number of Agent Compute Units (ACUs), with any additional ACU priced at $2.25 once the initial allocation ($20) is consumed. It features unlimited access to seats and requires no monthly commitment. 

This represents a substantial decrease from the $500 monthly plan for teams, which was announced earlier. 

ACUs evaluate Devin’s workload by taking into account the number and complexity of actions carried out, as well as virtual machine and network usage. The company also mentioned that each ACU now achieves nearly double the output according to their internal benchmark for junior developer tasks. 

Devin 2.0 accomplishes over 83% more tasks per ACU, demonstrating a rise in efficiency that has also been observed among their beta users.

When Devin was announced last year, developers testing the tool were disappointed by several shortcomings. However, with updates, the tool appears to have improved, as some developers have increasingly praised its capabilities. 

Sahil Lavingia, CEO of Gumroad, revealed that Devin completes a large number of PRs (pull requests) in his organisation. In February, he said that Devin is the most ‘productive’ engineer in his company, measured by merged PRs. 

The co-founder of Cognition AI, Scott W, is a three-time gold medal winner at the International Olympiad of Informatics and held the third position in 2021’s edition of the prestigious Google Code Jam competition.