Devin vs Factory AI Pricing 2026 (Autonomous SWE)

Verified as of 2026-06-16 against the official Cognition, Devin, and Factory pricing and documentation pages cited below.

The pricing story for autonomous software engineers changed in April 2026, and most third-party pages have not caught up. Devin retired its $500 per month Team plan and its ACU-based Core plan, replacing both with a $20 Pro, $200 Max, and $80-minimum Teams lineup. Factory AI sits at $20, $100, and $200 for individuals. This article fixes the record on Devin, lays the two vendors side by side at verified rates, and explains why two products with nearly identical sticker prices still bill very differently.

1. The $500 plan is dead

The most-cited Devin number in 2026 is wrong. Cognition's 04.14.26 post says plainly that it is retiring the old Core and Team plans, and that the old structure had a $500 per month Team entry point^[1]. The new Teams plan replaces that with an $80 per month minimum^[2]. Pages that still headline Devin at $500 are quoting a price that no longer exists.

The old model also billed in ACUs, or Agent Compute Units. The legacy Core plan charged about $2.25 per ACU on overage, and the old $500 Team plan bundled a fixed ACU allotment^[5]. The new self-serve plans drop ACU billing for end users: the announcement states that usage beyond your included quota is priced and billed in dollars rather than ACUs^[1]. So both the price and the meter changed at once.

2. Devin's current self-serve tiers

Verified on the Devin pricing page and self-serve docs as of June 2026^[3][2]:

• Free — $0: a light quota to start coding with agents, single user^[3].
• Pro — $20/mo: increased daily and weekly quota, single user, with access to OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini frontier models^[3].
• Max — $200/mo: a significantly larger weekly quota with no daily cap, still a single-user plan^[2].
• Teams — $80/mo minimum: unlimited members, full seats at $40 per month each, and flex seats that draw from a shared pool at no fixed per-seat charge^[2].
• Enterprise — custom: quote-based, with admin and deployment controls^[3].

Cognition also began charging for products that were previously free: Ask Devin, DeepWiki, and Devin Review now consume model usage and are billed accordingly^[1]. Budget for those if your workflow leans on them, because they were not part of the old plan price.

3. Factory AI's current tiers

Factory prices its droid agents in three self-serve tiers plus two custom tiers, verified on the Factory pricing page as of June 2026^[4]:

• Pro — $20/mo: the individual entry plan, an agent-native, multi-platform experience^[4].
• Plus — $100/mo: everything in Pro plus roughly 5x the usage of Pro and access to Droid Computers^[4].
• Max — $200/mo: everything in Plus plus roughly 10x the usage of Pro and early access to new features^[4].
• Teams — custom: tailored plans for growing teams, supporting up to 150 seats^[4].
• Enterprise — custom: unlimited team members with dedicated compute and full admin controls^[4].

Factory's pricing page describes usage in relative terms — Plus is about 5x Pro, Max about 10x Pro — rather than a published token allotment per tier^[4]. Specific per-tier token counts and overage rates are not stated on the official pricing page as of June 2026, so model your own usage against the relative multiples rather than a fixed token figure.

4. The verified side-by-side table

Tier	Devin (Cognition)	Factory AI
Free	$0, light quota[3]	No free tier published[4]
Entry / Pro	$20/mo[3]	$20/mo[4]
Mid tier	None for individuals[3]	Plus $100/mo (~5x Pro)[4]
Top individual	Max $200/mo[2]	Max $200/mo (~10x Pro)[4]
Team entry	Teams $80/mo min + $40/seat[2]	Custom, up to 150 seats[4]
Enterprise	Custom[3]	Custom[4]
Usage meter	Daily/weekly quota, then dollars at API pricing[1]	Relative usage (~5x / ~10x Pro)[4]

The bookends match: both start at $20 and cap individuals at $200. Factory fills the gap with a $100 Plus tier; Devin has no individual plan between $20 and $200. Devin instead publishes an explicit team path ($80 minimum plus $40 per seat), while Factory routes teams to custom pricing. So Factory is more granular for solo users, and Devin is more transparent for small teams.

5. Quota vs tokens: how each meters work

Same prices, different meters. Devin's plans bundle a daily and weekly usage quota that refreshes on a schedule; go past it and overage is billed in dollars at model API pricing, with cost varying by the model used, task size, and reasoning required^[3]. There is no per-ACU rate on the new self-serve plans for end users^[1].

Factory frames each tier's headroom as a multiple of Pro — Plus is about 5x, Max about 10x — rather than a published quota number^[4]. The practical effect is the same shape: a fixed monthly price buys a usage envelope, and heavy users step up a tier. Because neither vendor publishes a single dollar-per-task figure, an honest cost comparison means running a representative workload on each and reading the real bill, rather than comparing sticker prices.

6. Which to pick

1. Pick Devin if you want a free tier to start, a clear small-team path ($80 minimum plus $40 per full seat with free flex seats), and explicit access to OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini frontier models on Pro^[3]. Account for the newly-charged Ask Devin, DeepWiki, and Devin Review if you use them^[1].
2. Pick Factory if your solo usage sits between the $20 and $200 extremes and the $100 Plus tier (~5x Pro) fits, or you want Droid Computers and early feature access at Max^[4].
3. Either way, ignore any 2026 page quoting Devin at $500 — that plan is retired^[1] — and re-verify both pricing pages before committing, since usage envelopes and overage rates move with model releases.

For the IDE-assistant layer (Copilot, Cursor, and peers) rather than fully autonomous agents, see the best AI coding assistants ranking or the deeper Cursor vs Claude Code vs Windsurf billing breakdown. To turn either agent's monthly price into a per-user margin figure, run it through the API pricing math behind the models they call.

All prices verified against official Cognition, Devin, and Factory pages as of 2026-06-17. The Devin $500/mo Team plan was retired on 2026-04-14.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Devin cost in 2026?

Devin's self-serve lineup is Free at $0 with a light quota, Pro at $20 per month, Max at $200 per month, and Teams at an $80 per month minimum plus $40 per month per full seat, verified on the Devin pricing page as of June 2026. Enterprise is custom. The widely-quoted $500 per month plan was the old Team tier, which Cognition retired in its 04.14.26 announcement alongside the Core plan. Aggregator pages that still list $500 are stale.

Is the Devin $500 per month plan still available?

No. The $500 per month Team plan was retired when Cognition launched its new self-serve lineup on April 14, 2026. The blog post states it is retiring the old Core and Team plans, and the new Teams plan starts at an $80 per month minimum instead of the old $500 entry point. Any 2026 page quoting $500 as a current price has not been updated.

Is Devin or Factory AI cheaper?

At the entry tier both are $20 per month, and both top out at $200 per month for individuals, so the headline prices match. The difference is the middle and the team path. Factory adds a $100 per month Plus tier between $20 and $200, while Devin jumps straight from $20 to $200 for individuals and routes teams to an $80 per month minimum plus $40 per seat. For a steady solo workload, compare included quota; for a small team, Devin's per-seat math is the figure to model.

What is a Devin ACU and does it still apply?

An ACU, or Agent Compute Unit, was Devin's legacy usage meter on the old Core and Team plans, billed at about $2.25 per ACU on Core. The new self-serve plans drop ACU-denominated billing for end users: the Cognition announcement says usage beyond your included quota is priced and billed in dollars rather than ACUs. So the new tiers meter on a daily and weekly quota, with overage charged at model API pricing, not per ACU.