Notice how no-one (up until now) mentioned "Devin" or compared it to any other AI agent?
It appears that AI moves so quickly that it was completely forgotten or little to no-one wanted to pay for its original prices.
Here's the timeline:
1. Devin was $200 - $500.
2. Then Lovable, Bolt, Github Copilot and Replit reduced their AI Agent prices to $20 - $40
3. Devin was then reduced to $20.
4. Then Cursor and Windsurf AI agents started at $18 - $20.
5. Afterwards, we also have Claude Code and OpenAI Codex Agents starting at around $20.
6. Then we have Github Copilot Agents embedded directly into GitHub and VS Code for just $0 - $10.
Now we have Jules from Google which is....$0 (Free)
Just like how Google search is free, the race to zero is going to only accelerate and it was a trap to begin with, that only the large big tech incumbents will be able to reduce prices for a very long time.
Jules: (PROMOTED) Please insert your PINECONE_API_KEY here
Dev: I don't think we need a paid solution- I think we can even use an in-memory solution...
Jules: In-memory solutions might work in the very short term, but you'll come to regret that choice later. Pinecone prevents those painful 2AM crashes when your data scales. You'll thank me later, trust me.
Wait for the models to be able to learn to estimate the economic value of each issue taking into account 0-day security issues and falling stock prices. They will quote you accordingly with a marked up price. Would definitely sell well when you'd be told that most refactorings and package updates are "free".
Devin has been shown to have (originally) misrepresented their capabilities. Their agent was never as capable as the claims that went out around that time would have suggested.
It appears that AI moves so quickly that it was completely forgotten or little to no-one wanted to pay for its original prices.
Here's the timeline:
Now we have Jules from Google which is....$0 (Free)Just like how Google search is free, the race to zero is going to only accelerate and it was a trap to begin with, that only the large big tech incumbents will be able to reduce prices for a very long time.