NanoCorp vs Devin (2026): Run a Business or Ship Code?

Verdict: pick NanoCorp if you want a business that sells and have no engineering team; pick Devin if you have an engineering team and a codebase to move faster.

Start with the free founding interview if you have an idea and no one to build it. If you run an engineering team, this page will probably send you to Devin, and that's fine.

Two products, two jobs

The useful question is not which product is stronger. It's what you are missing.

If you are missing engineering capacity, you have a product, a team and more work than people. Devin's documentation lists what it does best: working through tickets in parallel, code migrations and framework upgrades, reviewing code, reproducing and fixing bugs, writing tests. Its guidance on choosing tasks gives a rule of thumb: if a task would take you three hours or less, Devin can most likely do it. Ideally you finish by checking that the automated tests pass and the change is approved.

If you are missing the business, you have an idea and no product, no site and no customers. That is the job NanoCorp is built for. Each business gets a website, an email address, a checkout, a code repository and a balance of earnings, and an agent works on it when you message it, on its regular check-ins and on its routines. What is an autonomous AI company explains the idea in more detail.

Both products use the word autonomous, but they mean different things by it. Devin works on its own on a task your team defines, and your team decides what ships. NanoCorp's agent works on a business with a revenue goal, and you steer it by chat.

Choose Devin if...

• You have an engineering team working on an existing codebase. This is Devin's home ground, and NanoCorp isn't built for it.
• You have tickets, migrations or code reviews piling up. Devin's use case gallery is organized around that work: incidents, migrations, feature development and code quality.
• Someone on your side can read code. Devin's output is a pull request, a proposed code change that a person checks before it goes live.
• You want it inside the tools your team already uses. Its pricing page lists integrations with Slack, Teams, Linear, Jira, GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket, and its homepage says you can tag it in a Slack or Teams thread.
• Your company has formal security or admin requirements. Devin lists single sign-on, deployment in your own private cloud and custom terms on its pricing page, and audit logs on its homepage. NanoCorp's pricing page offers no such plan.
• You are a developer on a tight budget. Devin has a free plan and a $20 a month Pro plan (as of November 2026). NanoCorp has no free plan and starts at $30 a month.

Choose NanoCorp if...

• You have an idea and no engineering team. You describe it in the founding interview, and the business starts from there. You don't need to set up a repository or write a task with completion criteria.
• You want selling handled too, not only building. Products, checkout, email, social accounts and social ads are part of the same product, on one plan.
• You want to test several ideas. The Founder plan covers unlimited businesses, and they all share one credit balance.
• You want to see real businesses before you decide. The live page shows businesses running on NanoCorp. What one of them earns is evidence about that business, not a promise about yours.

If you are choosing between no-code tools, app builders and an AI-run business, our guide to launching a SaaS without coding compares those routes.

Side by side

Getting started

Devin's first session guide asks you to index and set up your repositories before you begin. That is simple for an engineer and a real obstacle if you have no code yet. Its best practices ask for a clear start and end, explicit success criteria and a way to verify the result.

NanoCorp starts with a conversation. The interview shapes your idea into a brief, then the business starts on its own. When your account reaches the payment step, the agent pauses until you pick the Founder plan. A page that is already live stays live.

Price

All prices are as of November 2026, and the units differ, so compare them with care.

Devin's pricing page lists Free at $0 with a light quota, Pro at $20 a month and Max at $200 a month. It shows Teams at $80 a month plus $40 a month per full seat, while its billing documentation describes the $80 as a monthly minimum. Check the current terms before you buy a team plan. Enterprise is priced on request. Paid plans get a usage allowance that refreshes daily and weekly, and you can buy more. The cost of each message depends on the model and the size of the task.

NanoCorp has one plan. Founder runs from $30 a month for 30 credits to $2,000 a month for 2,000 credits. Credits pay for the agent's work and unused credits roll over. There is no free plan, and the founding interview is free.

On entry price alone, Devin is cheaper. That only matters if both products would do the job you need, and for most readers of this page only one will.

Selling and getting paid

Devin can write the code for selling. Its gallery includes building a checkout flow from a specification. We found nothing in that gallery about marketing, finding customers or running ads, as of November 2026. You would handle those parts yourself or with your team.

On NanoCorp, each business has a checkout built in, and sales land in the business's balance. NanoCorp keeps a 20% fee when you withdraw: on a $100 withdrawal, you receive $80. Currency conversion fees may also apply outside the US. Devin takes no share of your revenue that we could find, so if you already have a way to sell, this row favors Devin.

Your code

Devin works in your own repositories, and its homepage says inputs and outputs stay your intellectual property. If owning and controlling the code from day one matters most, Devin fits better.

On NanoCorp, every business has its own code repository. You can read and edit it, or invite a developer, from the $120 a month tier upward (as of November 2026). Below that tier there is no code access.

Teams and scale

Devin is built for groups. Its Teams plan goes up to 200 users with shared billing and an admin dashboard, and its homepage shows logos including Citi, NVIDIA and Cloudflare. NanoCorp is built around a founder and their businesses, with no seats and no team plan on its pricing page. If you are buying for a company's engineering department, this row settles it for Devin.

Can you use both?

In principle, yes, for different stages. A founder could start a business on NanoCorp and, from the $120 a month tier, invite a developer to its code repository, where they can use the tools they prefer. Only invite people you would trust to run the business.

We have not tested Devin on a NanoCorp repository, so we won't promise how well that works. Most people will only need one of these products.

A simple way to decide

Answer two questions:

1. Do you have a codebase and someone who can review changes to it? If yes, try Devin on one small ticket with a clear definition of done. If that goes well, you likely have your answer.
2. Is your real problem that the business doesn't exist yet? If yes, start the NanoCorp interview with your idea. The interview itself is free.

If you answered yes to both, start from the problem that costs you the most today. Our guide on whether AI can run a business covers what stays with the owner.

FAQ

Is Devin better than NanoCorp?

For an engineering team working on an existing codebase, yes, clearly. Devin is built for that work and NanoCorp isn't. For a founder with an idea and no engineers who wants a business that sells, we think NanoCorp fits better, because Devin's output is code that someone still has to review, launch and sell. We are biased, so judge it against your own situation.

Can a non-technical founder use Devin?

Nothing on its site rules it out, but its documentation assumes technical habits: setting up repositories, writing explicit success criteria and checking automated test results. Its results arrive as pull requests. Without someone who can review those, you can't easily judge the work.

Is Devin free?

Devin's pricing page lists a Free plan at $0 with a light quota and limited model availability, and lists no trial period, as of November 2026. NanoCorp has no free plan: the founding interview is free, and running a business needs the Founder plan.

How much does Devin cost compared with NanoCorp?

As of November 2026, Devin is $0 on Free, $20 a month on Pro, $200 a month on Max and from $80 a month on Teams. NanoCorp's Founder plan runs from $30 a month for 30 credits to $2,000 a month for 2,000 credits, and takes a 20% fee on withdrawals. Devin's usage allowance and NanoCorp's credits measure different things, so the numbers don't compare one for one.

Can NanoCorp work on my existing codebase?

Partly. You can start a business from a GitHub repository, as a one-time copy of the code, or describe a product you already have in the founding interview. A project on your computer can become a business from your terminal. That is about running a product as a business. It isn't a tool for an engineering team's tickets, code reviews or migrations, where Devin is the better choice.

Does either one run without me?

Neither removes you from the decisions. With Devin, its guidance has your team check and approve the code. With NanoCorp, the agent works on a schedule, but you still choose the offer, check what goes out under your name and decide what to change.

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To look further at NanoCorp, browse the live businesses, read the current pricing or start your business.