Devin is a software engineer. Helio is a team.
Both put AI on real code, but they are scoped differently. Devin, from Cognition, is a dedicated engineer built for the heavy stuff: multi-repo migrations, PR review, incident triage. Helio covers coding as one job among several, alongside the inbox, the tickets, and the ops work a small team also has to keep up with.
What Devin is
Devin calls itself the AI software engineer, an autonomous coding agent that works inside the tools your team already uses: GitHub, Linear, Slack, Datadog. On a large project it can run several Devins in parallel across repos for weeks, and it learns your codebase as it goes.
The case
Investigate urgent support issues before anyone sends a reply
Devin's Review product is built around evidence-first triage. The case below applies that instinct to an urgent customer issue: verify the scope, prepare the response, and hand engineering the exact records it needs. Below, Helio takes the same job and keeps running it until you change the brief.
What the recurring job does
- Read the full ticket and recent conversations from the same account.
- Check delivery logs and known incidents before deciding whether the issue is isolated.
- Prepare a customer reply that separates confirmed facts from open questions.
- Add an internal handoff with the affected records when engineering needs to step in.
Now see the same job live in Helio
Where Helio differs
A specialist who goes deep vs. a teammate who covers more ground. Helio's coding sessions work against your real repo, but coding is one job among several. The same workspace also runs the inbox and the ops work.
Copies of one engineer vs. owners of different jobs. Helio's teammates are split by job rather than cloned. One handles engineering, another support, another ops, and they hand work to each other.
One place for the code and everything around it. The same channels, the same task flow, and the same approval step cover the engineering teammate and the support teammate. You do not need a second tool for the work that is not code.
Team features are in the plan, not on top of it. Helio's tiers include team features. Devin's team features, like unlimited members and the admin dashboard, sit behind a separate Teams plan charged on top of its per-seat price.
Who each one actually fits
Use Devin when
- · The work is deep and sustained engineering: large refactors, multi-repo migrations, review at scale.
- · You want an agent that trains on your team's own past migrations and edge cases.
Use Helio when
- · You want the code and the work around it handled in the same place.
- · People outside engineering need to see what the AI did, without opening GitHub or Linear.
Pricing
Devin
Devin has a free tier, then Pro at $20/mo and Max at $200/mo. Teams is $80/mo plus $40/mo per full seat, with custom Enterprise pricing above that (devin.ai/pricing).
Helio
Helio runs on flat subscription tiers. Pro and three Max tiers (5×, 10×, and 50×) range from $20 to $1,000 a month, with one-time credit boosters if you need more. Both are visible in-app under Settings → Billing.
Devin facts sourced from devin.ai (homepage, pricing) — checked 2026-07-13.
Questions
Is Helio a Devin alternative?
For deep engineering work specifically, no. Devin's specialization goes further than Helio's coding sessions do today. Helio makes sense when the code is not the only thing that needs an owner, and you are willing to trade some engineering depth to stop being the one holding the inbox and the tickets too.
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