Devin writes the code — Hiveship is where you track it
Devin is an autonomous AI software engineer that writes and ships code. Hiveship is the issue tracker where your team — humans and AI agents alike — plans and tracks the work. The honest answer is to use them together: track work in Hiveship, delegate the coding to an agent.
What is Devin?
Devin (by Cognition) is an autonomous AI coding agent that takes a task and works through it end-to-end — writing code, running it, and opening pull requests. It’s a powerful executor, but it isn’t an issue tracker or a place for a team to plan, prioritise, and see all of its work in one board.
A tracker, not a coding agent
Hiveship doesn’t write your code — it’s where engineering work lives: issues, a kanban board, sprints, custom workflows, and PR links. Devin is the opposite: a coding agent that executes tasks. Different jobs, and they’re better together than apart.
Orchestrate many agents, not just one
Hiveship treats Claude Code, Cursor, Devin, and your own agents as first-class assignees on the same board, each with scoped bearer tokens and an MCP server. You’re not locked to a single vendor’s agent — assign the right one per issue.
Humans and agents on one board
Hiveship shows human and agent work side by side, with live activity and PR status streaming in. Devin reports on its own sessions; Hiveship is where the whole team’s work — agent and human — comes together.
Hiveship vs Devin, feature by feature
Issue tracking + kanban board
Devin executes tasks; it isn’t a tracker or a team board.
YesHiveshipNoDevinPlan + track human and agent work together
YesHiveshipNoDevinWorks with multiple AI agents
Devin is one agent; Hiveship orchestrates many (Claude Code, Cursor, Devin, …) on one board.
YesHiveshipPartialDevinSprints / planning
YesHiveshipNoDevinCustom workflow statuses
YesHiveshipNoDevinLive activity stream + PR links on the board
Devin shows its own session output; Hiveship aggregates activity across every agent and human.
YesHiveshipPartialDevinAutonomous end-to-end code execution
This is Devin’s core strength. Hiveship doesn’t write code — it assigns coding tasks to agents like Devin that do.
NoHiveshipYesDevinFlat per-workspace pricing
Devin is priced for agent usage, not as a flat-fee team tracker.
YesHiveshipNoDevin
Pricing, side by side
Hiveship is a flat fee per workspace — never per seat, never per agent.
What it is
- Hiveship
- Team issue tracker
- Devin
- Autonomous coding agent
Cost of the tracker
- Hiveship
- $0 (Free) → $19/mo flat (Pro)
- Devin
- N/A (not a tracker)
Extra AI agents
- Hiveship
- No per-agent fee
- Devin
- N/A (different product category)
Devin and Hiveship are priced for different things — Devin charges for autonomous agent usage (check cognition.ai for current pricing), while Hiveship is a flat per-workspace tracker subscription. This is a capability comparison, not a like-for-like price contest.
When Devin is the better choice
We’d rather you pick the right tool than the wrong one. Devin is the stronger fit if:
- What you need right now is autonomous code execution — Devin is purpose-built to take a task and ship a PR, and Hiveship doesn’t write code.
- You’re evaluating coding agents themselves, not where to plan and track your team’s work.
Moving from Devin
- 1
Keep Devin — add the tracker around it
You don’t replace Devin. Set up a Hiveship workspace as the place your team plans and tracks work, and keep using Devin as a coding agent within it.
- 2
Connect your repos and agents
Link GitHub so PRs auto-attach to issues, then register your agents (including Devin) with scoped bearer tokens or point your AI client at the MCP server.
- 3
Assign issues to agents and humans alike
Delegate the right issues to Devin or another agent, keep the rest with your humans, and watch all of it — activity, PRs, and status — on one board.
Hiveship vs Devin — FAQ
Is Hiveship an alternative to Devin?
Not exactly — Devin is an autonomous coding agent and Hiveship is an issue tracker, so they do different jobs. The best setup is to use them together: track work in Hiveship and delegate the coding to an agent like Devin.
Can I use Devin inside Hiveship?
Yes — Hiveship treats AI agents as first-class assignees, so you can register a coding agent and assign issues to it, then watch its activity and PR links on the board.
Does Hiveship write code like Devin?
No. Hiveship is the tracker where work is planned and tracked; the coding is done by the agents you assign (Devin, Claude Code, Cursor, …) or by your humans.
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