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Builder.io vs Devin vs Refraction AI

All three are code assistant tools. Here is what separates them.

	Builder.io	Devin	Refraction AI
What it is	One codebase for engineers, designers, PMs, and marketers. Everyone works from one source of truth, on brand and in code, with no handoffs to clean up.	An autonomous software engineer that takes a ticket, works in its own environment, and opens a pull request.	Refactor code, generate documentation, create unit tests and more. Simply paste a block of code, choose your language or framework, then hit "Generate" to…
Category	Code Assistant	Code Assistant	Code Assistant
Pricing	Freemium · $24 - $40/mo	Paid · From $20/mo (usage-based)	Paid · $8/mo
How it bills	Flat monthly	Usage-based	Flat monthly
Free tier	Yes	No	No
Rating	Not yet rated	Not yet rated	Not yet rated
Features	—	Own sandboxed dev environment Browser, shell and editor access Opens pull requests Slack and Jira integration Runs several tasks in parallel	—
What works	Has a free tier, so it can be tried before paying Publishes its price openly — $24 - $40/mo Sits in Code Assistant, one of the better-covered categories here — easy to compare	Genuinely unattended on well-scoped tasks Fits existing review workflow Parallel tasks scale out routine work	Publishes its price openly — $8/mo Sits in Code Assistant, one of the better-covered categories here — easy to compare
What does not	97 other tools in this catalogue claim to do the same job	Expensive per task Poor at ambiguous or exploratory work Still needs careful review	No free tier — it has to be paid for before it can be tried 97 other tools in this catalogue claim to do the same job 45 tools in the same category have a free tier

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