Watch and steer in real time, on your model of choice.
TL;DR
Devin works asynchronously — hand off a task, review it later. rigless is built to watch and steer in real time.
Devin's models and orchestration are Cognition's choice. rigless works with any model you bring.
rigless pricing scales with concurrent sandboxes ($10-$99/mo), 7-day trial, no card required.
Devin is still the better pick for pure hands-off delegation.
Devin, from Cognition, popularized the "AI software engineer" you hand a ticket to and walk away from. It moved the whole category forward. But full autonomy with minimal visibility is a specific tradeoff, and not every team wants to make it.
Devin runs asynchronously and mostly hands-off: assign a task, it works, you review later. That's great for delegation, but the feedback loop is coarse. You find out something went sideways after it's already gone sideways.
rigless assumes the opposite: watch the agent work in real time, in an actual terminal, on an actual filesystem, and steer it mid-run. The sandbox isn't a black box reporting back — it's a real Linux VM you can open yourself, any time.
Devin's orchestration and models are Cognition's choice, not yours. rigless doesn't make that choice for you. Bring an OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenRouter, Moonshot, or Zhipu key, or try the bundled starter tier first. If your org has already standardized on a model provider, rigless works inside that constraint — a single-model managed agent can't.
rigless scales with concurrent sandboxes: $10/mo for one, up to $99/mo for five with priority support. 7-day trial, no credit card. Bring your own model key and your model spend goes straight to the provider — no markup baked into one bundled tier.
Devin | rigless | |
|---|---|---|
Execution style | Asynchronous, managed | Real-time, watchable and steerable |
Model | Cognition's choice | Any — BYO key or bundled starter |
Environment | Opaque managed sandbox | Real Ubuntu VM you can open directly |
Pricing | Subscription, plan-based | $10-$99/mo by concurrency, 7-day trial |
You want to hand off a ticket and not think about it until it's done.
Long, multi-day tasks where mature async scheduling matters more than live visibility.
You want to watch the agent work and interrupt it if it drifts.
You want a real environment you can inspect directly, not a black box.
You want the freedom to change models without switching tools.
Different jobs, different tools — but if model lock-in is what bothers you about Devin, that's exactly what rigless removes.