Devin is a software engineer. Helio is a team.
Devin (by Cognition) and Helio both put AI to work on real code, but they're scoped differently. Devin is a dedicated AI software engineer built for deep engineering work — multi-repo migrations, PR review, incident triage. Helio's AI teammates cover coding alongside everything else a small team needs: inbox, tasks, ops.
What Devin is
Devin describes itself as "the AI software engineer" — an autonomous coding agent for engineering teams. It works inside the tools teams already use: GitHub, Linear, Slack, Datadog. It can spin up multiple Devins in parallel for large multi-week, multi-repo projects, and learns a team's codebase over time.
The case
Triage a critical error and suggest a fix — the moment it fires
It's the same kind of engineering work Devin's own pitch covers — it already sits in GitHub, Slack, and Datadog for exactly this. The difference shown here is the shape of the job: a standing on-call lane the whole team can see and edit, not a task handed to an agent. Below is Helio doing the same job, owned: asked for once, run on its own schedule, tuned from feedback without starting over.
Where Helio goes a step further
Deep engineering specialist — vs. a generalist teammate. A Helio AI teammate's coding sessions cover real repo work too, but the same workspace also runs teammates for inbox, ops, and support — coding is one lane, not the whole product.
A fleet of Devins on one project — vs. named teammates across functions. Helio's multiple AI teammates are role-specific by function (engineering, support, ops), not clones of the same engineer working one project.
One workspace for coding and everything else. The same channels, task lifecycle, and approval gates cover an engineering teammate and a support or ops teammate — no separate tool for non-code work.
Real identity across the whole org, not just engineering. A Helio teammate has an email address and org membership usable outside GitHub/Linear — Devin's identity surface is scoped to engineering tools.
Team features included, not a separate seat-priced tier. Helio's subscription tiers include team features by default; Devin's team features (unlimited members, admin dashboard) sit behind a separate paid Teams plan on top of its per-seat pricing.
Who each one actually fits
Use Devin when
- · You need deep, sustained engineering work — large refactors, multi-repo migrations, PR review at scale.
- · Your team's automation need is specifically coding, not inbox/ops/support.
- · You want an agent that can fine-tune on your team's own past migrations and edge cases.
Use Helio when
- · You want one AI teammate roster covering coding and non-coding work in the same workspace.
- · You're a smaller team that needs broad coverage, not a dedicated engineering-only agent.
- · You want AI teammates visible to non-engineers too, not just inside GitHub/Linear.
Pricing
Devin
Devin: Free, Pro $20/mo, Max $200/mo, Teams $80/mo + $40/mo per full seat, Enterprise custom (verified on devin.ai/pricing).
Helio
Helio has published subscription tiers — Basic, Pro, Max, and Ultra, from $20 to $1,000/month — plus one-time credit boosters, both visible in-app under Settings → Billing.
Questions
Is Helio a Devin alternative?
Only if you need broader coverage than engineering alone. For deep, large-scale coding work specifically, Devin's specialization goes further than Helio's coding sessions currently do.
Can Helio's coding sessions replace Devin for large migrations?
Not today. Helio's coding sessions give a teammate a real terminal and filesystem against your repo for day-to-day tickets, not the fine-tuned, multi-week migration scale Devin is built for.
Do teams use both?
Plausibly — Devin for heavy, dedicated engineering programs, Helio for the rest of the team's recurring work, including lighter engineering tasks.
One roster, every function.
Download Helio and see coding sessions sit next to inbox, ops, and support teammates in the same workspace.
Devin facts sourced from devin.ai (homepage, pricing) — checked 2026-07-13.