Maito vs Devin

Which is better, Maito or Devin?

Maito is the better pick if support, product, and sales should ask for code changes from the same agent engineering uses, without a seat each. Devin is the better pick if your developers want their own engineering agent with a desktop app, a CLI, and automated code review.

Devin is built around developers: their seats, their memory, their desktop and terminal. Maito is the coding agent your whole company shares, and it does business work in the same threads. As of October 2026, Devin Teams costs $40 per full seat with an $80 monthly minimum; Maito costs $149 per workspace with unlimited people.

This guide is for a product company where support and sales need code fixes as often as engineers do. We rechecked Devin's docs and billing pages in October 2026.

What is Devin?

Devin is Cognition's AI software engineer: cloud coding sessions, a desktop app and CLI, code review, a data analyst mode, and automations, reachable from Slack, Linear, GitHub, and its web app.

In Slack, each user links their Slack profile to a Devin account by matching email. A mention starts a session, follow-ups continue in the thread or a code channel, and quick codebase questions get answered without a full session.

Devin can start your app, test it in a browser, and attach a video of the test to its result. Its data analyst mode queries connected databases and builds charts.

Where Devin is strong:

• A desktop app, a CLI, and code review for each developer
• Automations triggered by GitHub, GitLab, Linear, Jira, Pylon, PagerDuty, and webhooks
• SOC 2 Type II, with dedicated deployments for enterprise customers

Sources: Devin in Slack, Devin testing and recordings, Devin data analyst

And what is Maito?

Maito is one coding agent for everyone in the company, not only developers, and it handles business work too, in Slack, by email, and in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, Grok, and Muse.

Anyone in an invited Slack channel can ask it for a feature, a fix, a refactor, a review, QA, or tests, without a seat or a linked account. Each task gets its own sandbox and branch, runs your checks, and ends in a pull request your engineers review. Engineers can work with the same agent from Cursor, Codex, or Claude. It also does research, reports, and follow-ups in your connected tools.

Sources: AI teammate

How do Maito and Devin compare at a glance?

Maito and Devin both take coding work from Slack to a tested pull request and run recurring work. Maito is organized around the whole company, with shared knowledge and no seats. Devin is organized around developers, with seats, personal memory, and desktop and terminal tools.

Sources: Maito FAQ and pricing. Devin Slack, memory, automations, security, and billing.

Who on your team can work with Maito and Devin?

Anyone in an invited Slack channel can ask Maito for work, without an account. Devin needs each Slack user linked to a Devin account, with a full seat for daily developers or a free flex seat for occasional users.

Flex seats draw on the team's shared on-demand credit and don't include the desktop app, which lets support or product people use Devin now and then.

In Maito, a support lead, a product manager, and an engineer reply in the same thread, and the engineer can pick it up later from Cursor. DMs stay private.

Winner: Maito. People outside engineering ask without an account, a seat, or a credit pool to watch.

Sources: Devin billing, Team collaboration

And what do Maito and Devin do when a customer reports a bug?

Maito and Devin can both reproduce a bug in the browser, record it, fix it, and open a pull request. Maito also brings the support side into the same thread: the ticket, the evidence from your tools, and a reply drafted for the customer.

Illustrative conversation, not a recorded product test.

#support

Lena 2:12 PM

@Maito a customer on Safari can't drag cards between columns on the board view. Ticket #3307.

Maito APP 2:31 PM

Reproduced on Safari 18. Video attached: the drop event never fires because the drag image is set after the drag starts. PR #841 sets it on dragstart and adds a Safari test. Checks pass, and QA passed on the preview.

Arjun 2:35 PM

Can you also check Firefox before we merge?

Maito APP 2:44 PM

Firefox passes too, recording added to the PR. The customer reply is drafted below with a workaround until the release.

Example complete

Devin connects to support tools such as Pylon, where it picks up delegated tickets and relays updates. Its built-in Pylon tools don't create or send customer replies.

Winner: Maito. The support teammate who got the ticket starts the fix and gets the reply back, without a Devin account.

Sources: Devin and Pylon, Support teams

What do Maito and Devin do with a business task?

Maito does business work across your connected tools with what it knows about your company. Devin's business work centers on its data analyst mode, which queries connected databases and builds charts.

Illustrative conversation, not a recorded product test.

#revops

Camila 9:40 AM

@Maito our quarterly pricing review is Friday. Which discount codes are still active, who created them, and how much revenue used them last quarter?

Maito APP 9:52 AM

11 codes are active. Four were created for events that ended in the spring, and they drove $18,300 last quarter. Table with owners and revenue is in the thread. Want me to draft a note to each owner asking whether to expire theirs?

Example complete

Winner: Maito. Research, reports, and follow-ups in sales, ops, and finance tools are core work, not a side mode.

What does Devin remember, and what does Maito remember?

Devin keeps personal memory for each user, which teammates don't share, plus shared skills for team procedures. Maito keeps company knowledge the whole workspace shares, plus personal memory for each person.

Devin stores each user's preferences, corrections, and lessons as Markdown notes in a Git repository. Automated sessions don't read or write that memory, and shared conventions belong in skills.

Maito learns facts from shared threads, such as a pricing rule or how a feature behaves, and saves good results as skills anyone can reuse.

Winner: Maito. What one person teaches it, the next person benefits from.

Sources: Devin memory, Company knowledge, Skills

Can Maito and Devin both run work every week?

Yes. Devin runs automations from schedules and engineering events, and Maito runs Loops from a schedule, a Slack message, an email, or a webhook any system can send.

Devin's automations combine a trigger, conditions, an optional script check, and actions, with built-in sources such as GitHub, GitLab, Linear, Jira, Pylon, and PagerDuty. On Teams they draw from shared on-demand credit and stop when it runs out.

Maito's Loops handle coding and business work alike, such as the Monday revenue summary or a nightly check of failed payments, and anyone can pause or change them.

Winner: Devin for engineering events out of the box. Maito for recurring work anyone in the company sets up, including business work.

Sources: Devin automations, Devin billing, Maito FAQ

Is Devin or Maito more secure?

As of October 2026, Cognition has held SOC 2 Type II since September 2024 and offers dedicated deployments that keep enterprise data in the customer's tenant. Maito encrypts credentials, logs every agent action for admins, and sends model requests to your own AI provider account.

Cognition doesn't train its models on customer code by default.

Maito runs each coding task in its own sandbox on your workspace's cloud computer, and admins can export the action log and set its retention. For sensitive repositories, switch a thread to Supervised so Maito asks before each command or edit.

Winner: Devin, for teams whose security review needs a SOC 2 report or a dedicated deployment.

Sources: Devin enterprise security, Maito FAQ

How long do Maito and Devin take to set up?

Maito is ready in minutes once you connect an AI provider, Slack, and a repository. Devin needs each Slack user linked to a Devin account, plus repository and environment setup before its first session.

Winner: Maito, for getting people outside engineering asking on day one.

Sources: Devin in Slack, Maito FAQ

What do Maito and Devin cost?

As of October 2026, Maito has no seats: $149 a month covers the workspace, with $20 of cloud credits included and model usage billed by your AI provider. Devin Teams costs $40 per full seat with an $80 monthly minimum, and flex seats are free.

Sources: Devin billing, Maito pricing

What would ten people pay for a month of Maito or Devin?

As of October 2026, two developers on full Devin seats and eight people on flex seats cost $80 a month plus shared usage. Maito costs $149 a month plus your AI provider's usage, with no seats.

Devin's bill grows with every developer who needs a full seat and with flex usage. Maito's stays at $149 however many people ask.

When is Devin enough?

Devin is enough when the people asking for AI help are mostly developers who want their own agent in a desktop app and terminal, and nobody outside engineering needs code changes.

Can we use Maito and Devin together?

Yes. Developers can keep Devin in their editor and terminal while the rest of the company asks Maito in Slack, by email, and in their AI assistants.

Point requests from support, product, and sales at Maito, and let developers keep their personal Devin sessions.

What carries over when a team adds Maito next to Devin?

Repository instructions, setup commands, and open branches stay in your repository, so Maito reads them on its first task. Devin's shared skills carry over as text.

Paste Devin's shared skills into a Maito thread and ask it to save them as skills. Personal memory stays with each developer.

Let open Devin sessions finish their pull requests. Devin automations become Loops; run each once by hand and turn the Devin one off before the first scheduled run.

Sources: Devin memory

So should you choose Maito or Devin?

Choose Maito for the coding agent your whole company shares, with company knowledge and no seats, for product and business work. Choose Devin if your developers want their own agent with a desktop app, a CLI, and code review.

Pick one customer ticket that needs a code change and ask a support teammate to start it in each product. Compare who could start it, what came back, and how many handoffs it took.

Maito vs Devin: frequently asked questions

Does everyone need a Devin seat to use it in Slack?

Each Slack user needs a linked Devin account. Occasional users can take a free flex seat that draws on the team's shared credit.

Is Devin free?

Devin has a free plan with limited usage for one person. As of October 2026, Pro is $20 a month, Max is $200, and Teams starts at $80.

Is Devin SOC 2 compliant?

Yes. Cognition has held SOC 2 Type II since September 2024.

Can Maito work from Cursor or Claude like Devin's CLI?

Yes. Engineers connect Maito to Cursor, Codex, Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, or Muse and work with the same agent the rest of the company uses in Slack.

Does Maito charge per developer?

No. Maito is $149 per workspace per month with unlimited people, and your AI provider bills model usage.

Sources: Devin billing, Devin billing, Devin enterprise security, Maito FAQ, Maito pricing