Comparing AI Software Engineer Tools

The software engineering market has seen a surge in AI-powered tools aiming to streamline the development process. This knowledge base compares options from agents & assistants to copilots to help you make the right choice for your engineering team. We focus on factors like:

• Pricing
• Code quality
• Speed
• Security
• Developer experience

Devin

Devin AI is an agentic software engineering assistant that integrates with Slack. It was first announced in early 2024 by Cognition Labs. Devin has received lots of online attention but has mixed reviews from early users.

Devin vs Engine - Compare Software Engineer Tools

GitHub copilot vs Devin AI - Software Engineer vs Code Assistant

Devin AI vs Cursor - AI Developer Tools Compared

Engine Labs

Engine is a autonomous software engineer that integrates with all the tools you already use. It is targeted at small to medium size engineering teams. It has state of the art coding scores on SWE-bench.

Engine vs Devin AI - Compare Software Engineer Tools

Engine vs GitHub Copilot - Autonomous AI Software Developer vs IDE Assistant

Engine vs Cursor AI - Autonomous AI Software Developer vs IDE Assistant

Engine vs Bolt AI / Lovable AI - Autonomous AI Software Developer vs IDE Assistants

Cursor AI

Cursor is a VS Code fork with AI built-in. It started off as a copilot but has since added more intelligent features. As an IDE assistant, Cursor still requires regular human interaction and runs locally. It provides access to most of the latest and best foundation models.

Cursor AI vs Engine - Autonomous AI Software Developer vs IDE Assistant

Bolt AI

Bolt is an AI powered development environment that runs in your browser. It allows you to build relatively basic applications by describing what you want in a conversational UI.

GitHub Copilot

Copilot was one of the first widely adopted AI software engineering products. It's runs locally in the VS Code IDE as an extension. A free version was recently released for casual users.

GitHub copilot vs Devin AI - Software Engineer vs Code Assistant

GitHub Copilot vs Engine - Autonomous AI Software Developer vs IDE Assistant