Bolt.new vs Devin
A side-by-side comparison of capabilities, autonomy, integrations, and pricing to help you choose.
Short answer: choose Bolt.new if you want prompt, edit, and deploy full-stack web apps in the browser (Supervised agent, freemium); choose Devin if you want autonomous ai software engineer that takes delegated tickets to a reviewed pr (Supervised agent, usage).
| Bolt.new | Devin | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Prompt, edit, and deploy full-stack web apps in the browser | Autonomous AI software engineer that takes delegated tickets to a reviewed PR |
| Type | agent | agent |
| Autonomy | Supervised agent | Supervised agent |
| Pricing | freemium · Free (1M tokens/mo); Pro from $25/mo | usage · $20/mo + usage (ACU credits) |
| Best for | consumers, developers, smb | enterprise, mid-market, developers |
| Deployment | saas | saas, api |
| Modalities | text, code | text, code, browser, api |
| Models | claude, model-agnostic | claude, proprietary |
| Protocols | rest-api | mcp, rest-api, function-calling |
| Integrations | Netlify, Supabase, GitHub, Expo | GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira |
| Capabilities | 3 documented | 4 documented |
Bolt.new
- +Full dev environment runs in the browser via WebContainers, with the AI controlling filesystem, terminal, and server
- +Generates true full-stack apps (not just UI) and can deploy via Bolt Cloud
- +No local setup; fast for prototyping and iterating by chatting
- -Token-based usage cost can rise quickly on complex or long-running builds
- -Output needs human review and iteration; it is not a hands-off autonomous engineer
Devin
- +Genuinely async, delegated model: handles whole tickets and large parallel migrations rather than line-by-line autocomplete
- +Deep workflow integration (Slack, Jira, Linear, GitHub) plus DeepWiki codebase indexing and a public API
- +Validated at large, complex enterprises
- -Best on clear, verifiable tasks; Cognition's own framing acknowledges it can make mistakes or get stuck on complex work and needs human review
- -Usage-based ACU billing can get expensive and unpredictable on open-ended work
Which should you choose?
Bolt.new is prompt, edit, and deploy full-stack web apps in the browser, best for consumers, developers, smb. Devin is autonomous ai software engineer that takes delegated tickets to a reviewed pr, best for enterprise, mid-market, developers. The right choice depends on the autonomy level you want, your existing integrations, and your budget, all compared above.