Sistava vs Devin
Developer Frameworks
Sistava vs Devin
Devin, built by Cognition, is an autonomous AI software engineer that plans a coding task, writes and tests the change across the relevant files, and opens a pull request for a human to review. It targets engineering teams doing migrations, bug fixes, and CI triage at scale, billed by Agent Compute Units (ACUs) rather than a flat seat price. Sistava is a different category: a managed AI workforce across sales, marketing, support, and operations, not a specialized coding agent for engineering teams.
Profile
- Pricing
- Core $20/mo plus pay-as-you-go ACUs at $2.25 each. Team $500/mo with 250 ACUs included ($2.00 each after). Enterprise custom.
- Founded
- 2023, San Francisco (Cognition)
- Funding
- $1B+ raised at a $25B valuation (2026). Investors include Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and Lux Capital.
- Focus
- Autonomous AI software engineer that plans, writes, tests, and ships code with human review
Why Sistava
- Devin is a specialist built for one job: writing and shipping code inside an existing engineering org. Sistava hires across sales, marketing, support, and operations, the roles a solo founder or small team actually needs filled first.
- Devin bills by Agent Compute Unit, a metered unit tied to runtime, so cost scales with usage and is hard to predict in advance. Sistava is one flat monthly plan across the whole team.
- Honest concession: for a team that already has engineers and just needs pull requests to move faster, Devin's coding depth (migrations, CI triage, PR review) is real, and it is not something Sistava attempts to match.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Devin | Sistava |
|---|---|---|
| Software engineering teams | Non-technical founders and operators | |
| Writes and ships code | Runs the business (sales, marketing, support, ops) | |
| $20/mo + ACU usage, Team from $500/mo | Flat $49-$399/mo | |
| You define tasks per repo | ✓ | |
| ✗ | ✓ | |
| GitHub, Linear, Slack, Datadog | Thousands of native + MCP |