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	Devin A	Lovable A	Cursor S	Perplexity S
Tagline	Cognition Labs' autonomous coding engineer.	Build a full app from a prompt. Stripe-ready.	VS Code fork that made AI coding actually work.	AI search done right. Cited answers, not chat theater.
Category	agents	design	coding	research
Pricing	$500/mo	Free + $25-$100/mo	Free + $20/mo Pro + $40/mo Business	Free + $20/mo Pro
Best for	Engineering teams offloading tickets. Ops/platform work.	Non-devs + solopreneurs shipping MVPs.	Developers. Non-developers who want to ship working code.	Replacing Google for any question where you want a cited answer in seconds.
Strengths	Works like an engineer — takes Slack tasks, opens PRs Handles multi-hour engineering work Reports back with what it did	Generates full apps + DB + auth Good for non-developers Ships faster than hand-coding	Tab completion feels like mind-reading Composer for multi-file edits Runs Claude, GPT, Gemini — you pick	Sources every claim Fast, current answers Pro Search runs multi-step research Spaces for persistent context
Weaknesses	Expensive Best for well-scoped tasks Not for solo hobbyists	Complexity ceiling Can generate brittle code	Can feel overwhelming for non-coders Expensive at scale	Not a general chatbot Answers can be shallow on complex topics
Kai's verdict	A-tier for the right use case. Not for solo devs. If you manage engineers, try one license.	A-tier. The strongest 'no-code' AI builder right now. Great for founder MVPs.	S-tier for coding. If you write code of any kind, this pays back the $20 in a day.	S-tier for search. I use it before Google now. If you're still Googling everything, try this for a week.
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