Korden vs. Devin
Devin is a cloud autonomous engineer. Korden is a local-first crew that works in your repo, on your machine, with your model — and always hands you a PR.
What is Devin?
Devin is an autonomous AI software engineer that runs in its own cloud environment. You assign it tasks and it works in that hosted sandbox.
How Korden compares to Devin
The core difference: Korden runs a multi-agent crew fully on your machine, with your own model, and delivers every change as a pull request you merge. Here's the side-by-side.
| Korden | Devin | |
|---|---|---|
| Runs fully on your machine | Yes | Runs in the vendor's cloud |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Bundled model |
| Multi-agent crew, in parallel | Parallel crew on worktrees | Autonomous single agent |
| Every change is a pull request you merge | Always — you merge | Opens PRs from its cloud |
| Where your code runs | Your machine | Vendor cloud |
When Korden is the better fit
Choose Korden if privacy, model choice, and a real review gate matter to you.
- You don't want your repository uploaded to a vendor's cloud.
- You want to control the model and avoid per-seat cloud compute costs.
- You want to watch the work happen in real terminals on your own box.
When Devin might fit better
No tool is right for everyone — Devin can be the better call in these cases.
- You want a fully hosted agent you never run locally.
- You're fine with code executing in a managed cloud sandbox.
- You want an agent that runs long tasks unattended in the cloud.
Frequently asked questions
Is Korden a self-hosted Devin alternative?
Does Korden upload my repo like a cloud agent?
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