Devin vs GitLab

Which one do AI engines recommend, and how do they differ on price, fit and features?

The short answer

Devin is the stronger AI pick in AI Coding Assistants: it has a visibility score of 16.9 versus 11.2 for GitLab, and ranks ahead in 40% of the answers that name both.

Choose Devin if…

You want the brand AI engines rank higher (16.9 vs 11.2)
You want a lower entry price ($20 vs $29)
You need SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001 coverage
Flat tiers pricing suits your budget better than per seat

Choose GitLab if…

AI answers describe it more positively (46% vs 12% positive)
You need SOC 2 Type 2 (GitLab.com and GitLab Dedicated) or ISO/IEC 27001:2022 or ISO/IEC 27017:2015 or ISO/IEC 27018:2019 or GDPR compliance or CSA Trusted Cloud Provider or FedRAMP Moderate baseline (GitLab Dedicated for Government) or GovRAMP authorized coverage
Per seat pricing suits your budget better than flat tiers
All-in-one DevSecOps platform

AI visibility side by side

Latest weekly run · Nov 3

Metric	Devin	GitLab
Visibility score	16.9%	11.2%
Change vs last week	New	New
Rank in AI Coding Assistants	#5	#7
Share of voice	6.1%	3.1%
Mentions this run	29	15
Positive in AI answers	12%	46%

The stronger value in each row is marked with a ✓.

Visibility score trend

Weekly runs over the last 60 days

Devin 0pp · GitLab 0pp over 0 weekly runs.

Engine by engine

Devin leads on 2 of 3 engines

ChatGPT

18.1%

11.3%

AI Mode

23.1%

13%

Perplexity

9.4%

DevinGitLab

Head to head in AI answers

5 engine answers name both brands

2Devin ranked higher

3GitLab ranked higher

Prompt	Engine	Devin	GitLab
How do I choose an AI coding assistant for a mid-market team?	ChatGPT	#5	#1
What are common mistakes when buying an AI coding assistant?	ChatGPT	#3	#5
Compare the leading AI coding assistant platforms	ChatGPT	#7	#12
Which AI coding assistant vendors do analysts recommend?	AI Mode	#10	#9
Which AI coding assistant vendors do analysts recommend?	Perplexity	#8	#7

Features, pricing & fit

Dimension	Devin	GitLab
Pricing model	Flat tiers	Per seat
Entry price	Free; paid from $20 / mo	Free; paid from $29 per seat / mo
Free plan	Yes	Yes
Deployment	Cloud agent at app.devin.ai and a local CLI, with dedicated VPC deployment on Enterprise plans	GitLab.com, self-managed and GitLab Dedicated
Compliance	SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001	SOC 2 Type 2 (GitLab.com and GitLab Dedicated), ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017:2015, ISO/IEC 27018:2019, GDPR compliance, CSA Trusted Cloud Provider, FedRAMP Moderate baseline (GitLab Dedicated for Government), GovRAMP authorized
Support	Priority support on Team plan, Dedicated Slack Connect channel for support, Dedicated account and engineering support on Enterprise plan, Optional onboarding call	Priority support with 24x5 coverage and SLAs (Premium), Upgrade Support
Founded	—	2014
Headquarters	San Francisco	San Francisco, California, US
Employees	—	1,001–5,000
Funding	Series E · $3700M raised	PIPE
Best for	Engineering teams that want to hand well-scoped coding, testing and maintenance tasks to parallel AI agents	Scaling development teams and enterprises that need advanced security and compliance capabilities