Comparison · 2026
mcptask.online vs Devin, Copilot, Cursor, Rovo Dev, Linear and AIDEN
Other AI coding tools give a developer an agent to supervise, one ticket at a time. mcptask.online gives a company AI developers to manage, like the rest of the team.
Side by side
What each tool's own website, docs or README says. “Not documented” means we found no statement either way.
| mcptask.online | Devin | GitHub Copilot cloud agent | Cursor Cloud Agents | Jira + Rovo Dev | Linear + agents | AIDEN | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| How a task reaches the AI | The AI developer takes the next task from the team's queue itself: priority, then bugs first, then oldest; blocked tasks wait | Sessions started from the web app, Slack, Microsoft Teams or the API; Linear and Jira tickets can be assigned to Devin | A task from the agents panel, or an issue or pull request on GitHub.com; Slack and Teams integrations | @cursor in Slack, Linear, GitHub or Bitbucket, from cursor.com/agents or through the API | Start work from a Jira work item, or an Automation rule | An issue delegated to an agent, or the agent @mentioned | A feature board with a spec a person approves before code is written |
| Unrelated bug found mid-task | Commits its work in progress, files the failing test as an urgent task, fixes and merges it in a separate pull request, then returns to the original task | Not documented | Not documented | Fixes CI failures on pull requests it created; checks already failing on the base commit are skipped | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented |
| Recovery | A full context window continues in a fresh session with a handoff note; a watchdog ends frozen or looping runs; a crash files its own bug task; after a reboot the next scheduled start continues the day | Sleeping sessions can be resumed for 14 days; a message wakes them | A session runs for at most 59 minutes | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented |
| Daily AI budget | The runner reads the remaining daily budget live before, between and during tasks, and sleeps when it is spent | ACU limits per organisation, per session and per user | A monthly allowance plus a budget for additional usage, with alerts | Spend limits, including caps per member | Monthly credits per developer; extra usage billed per credit | Workspace and per-user spend limits for AI credits | Not documented |
| Live view and control | A runner card per machine on your dashboard: current task, TODO progress and stop reason, with Stop now, Stop after this task and Start from the web | Watch the session's shell, IDE and browser; stop a session | Session logs; steering comments while a session runs | Take control of the agent's remote desktop; follow-up messages | The plan and progress shown in Jira | Open a coding session to steer it or follow up | Live agent status on the board |
| Many machines | A runner on every machine you add (macOS, Linux, Windows), all taking work from one queue for people and AI developers | Many sessions in parallel in Cognition's cloud | Not documented | Parallel cloud agents; self-hosted machine pools on Enterprise | Several sessions from one work item, one per repository | Not documented | Several agents in parallel on git worktrees on one Mac |
| AI work in timesheets and invoices | Every run logs its time and progress on the task like a person does, ready for work reports and invoicing | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented |
| Where the AI works | A runner on your own machines with your project, your real database and your tests | Cognition's cloud, an isolated machine per session; a single-tenant VPC managed by Cognition as an option | An ephemeral GitHub Actions environment, or your self-hosted runners via Actions Runner Controller (Ubuntu or Windows) | Isolated cloud VMs; self-hosted machines run tool execution on your own workers | A cloud sandbox; the Rovo Dev CLI runs in your terminal | Linear's coding sessions run in a secure cloud environment; other agents run where their provider runs them | A desktop app on your Mac |
| PR and merge | Every task ends as a pull request after tests and local CI. Auto-squash modes merge only after green checks; in manual modes a person reviews every pull request | Opens pull requests; a person reviews and merges under your branch protections | Opens a pull request; someone other than the person who asked must approve it | Merge-ready pull requests with artifacts | A draft pull request the team reviews | A draft pull request; your GitHub review rules decide what ships | Pull requests with passing tests; a Ship step merges |
| Whole story in one merge | Story modes put every subtask of a story on one story branch, merged to the main branch once | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented |
| Works in PR review comments | Workflow mode works in new human review comments on your open pull requests and replies on the PR | Auto-Fix responds to code review comments | Mention @copilot in a pull request comment or review | Not documented | Not documented | Ask the agent to address teammates' review comments | Not documented |
| Coding CLI and model | Claude Code, Codex CLI or OpenCode on your own subscription or API key; hosted or local models | Devin's own agent and models; Devin CLI | Copilot models, depending on plan | Cursor's model selection | Rovo Dev; model choice announced as coming soon | Claude, GPT or GLM models chosen by admins | Claude Code and Codex CLI with model routing per feature |
| Git hosts | GitHub, GitLab (including self-managed) and Bitbucket Cloud | GitHub, GitHub Enterprise Server, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps | GitHub | GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket Cloud | Bitbucket Cloud, GitHub Cloud | GitHub for coding sessions | GitHub |
| Pricing model | Per user – each person and each AI developer is one user: Starter 16 €/month for two users, Professional 12 €/user/month. The model is billed by its provider. 30-day free trial | Free, Pro, Max and Teams plans; Enterprise on request | Copilot plans with AI credits; the cloud agent from Pro | Individual plans and Teams per user; cloud agents from Premium | Per developer per month with monthly credits; Atlassian says the standalone product is reaching end of life | Linear plan per user; coding sessions use AI credits; agents are not billable seats | Free for one project; Solo per month or lifetime; Team per seat, minimum three |
Sources, checked 2026-10-27
- Devin: https://docs.devin.ai https://docs.devin.ai/release-notes/overview https://docs.devin.ai/enterprise/features/usage-policies https://docs.devin.ai/enterprise/deployment/overview https://docs.devin.ai/essential-guidelines/sdlc-integration https://devin.ai/pricing
- GitHub Copilot cloud agent: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/agents/coding-agent/about-coding-agent https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/use-copilot-agents/cloud-agent/customize-the-agent-environment https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/use-copilot-agents/cloud-agent/review-copilot-prs https://github.blog/changelog/2025-10-28-copilot-coding-agent-now-supports-self-hosted-runners https://github.com/features/copilot/plans
- Cursor Cloud Agents: https://cursor.com/docs/cloud-agent https://cursor.com/docs/cloud-agent/capabilities https://cursor.com/docs/cloud-agent/self-hosted https://cursor.com/pricing
- Jira + Rovo Dev: https://www.atlassian.com/blog/company-news/rovo-dev-in-jira https://support.atlassian.com/rovo/docs/generate-code-from-a-work-item-in-jira/ https://support.atlassian.com/rovo/docs/work-with-rovo-dev-in-automations/ https://www.atlassian.com/software/rovo-dev/pricing
- Linear + agents: https://linear.app/docs/agents-in-linear https://linear.app/docs/coding-sessions https://linear.app/docs/ai-credits https://linear.app/pricing
- AIDEN: https://aidenapp.org/ https://aidenapp.org/pricing https://docs.aidenapp.org
Frequently asked questions
How is mcptask.online different from Devin?
Devin runs each session in Cognition's cloud and you start it from the web app, Slack, the API or a ticket. With mcptask.online the AI developer is a user on your team: a runner on your own machine takes the next task from the queue by priority, logs its time on the task and ends every task as a pull request after tests and local CI.
How is mcptask.online different from GitHub Copilot cloud agent?
Copilot works on a task you hand it, in a GitHub Actions environment or on your self-hosted Ubuntu or Windows runners, and on GitHub. The mcptask runner takes work from a shared queue on macOS, Linux or Windows machines you add, works with GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket Cloud, and drives Claude Code, Codex CLI or OpenCode.
How is mcptask.online different from AIDEN?
AIDEN is a desktop app that runs agents in parallel on one Mac from a feature board. mcptask.online puts AI developers into the team's task queue across as many machines as you add, with a daily AI budget, time logged on every task and one queue for people and AI developers.