Devin vs JetBrains AI Assistant

as AI assistants see them, week of 2026-10-12

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JetBrains AI Assistant edges out Devin overall, with a score of 11 versus 6 and mentions in 21 of 89 answers compared to Devin's 16. JetBrains leans heavily on Gemini, scoring 22 there, while Devin's best showing is 10 on ChatGPT. Devin shows up for codebase-wide coding agent questions (3 of 3 answers) and Cursor alternatives (3 of 4), while JetBrains AI Assistant owns the Python question, named in all 3 answers. Head-to-head, JetBrains AI Assistant was named more often in 7 questions, Devin in 2, with 16 ties. Neither is ever named for mobile app, free, or value-for-money coding assistant questions.

Head to head

metric	Devin	JetBrains AI Assistant
score	6	11
questions won	9	13

By assistant

Devin

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	10	10% of answers	#4.5
Claude	5	15% of answers	#11.7
Gemini	5	9% of answers	#5.0
Perplexity	5	11% of answers	#5.5

JetBrains AI Assistant

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	12	15% of answers	#8.0
Claude	12	20% of answers	#8.0
Gemini	22	55% of answers	#5.8
Perplexity	3	5% of answers	#4.0

Where they differ

Only Devin gets named for

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Only JetBrains AI Assistant gets named for

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