Sauna vs Devin
Devin ships code. Sauna does your work.
Devin is a powerful specialist for one domain: writing and shipping code. Sauna is a general coworker for the rest of your work — it remembers your projects, connects to your tools, and does the task across every surface your team uses.
Comparing Sauna and Devin? Devin (from Cognition) is an autonomous AI software engineer that ships code. Sauna is the general coworker for the rest of your work — it remembers your projects, connects to thousands of tools, and acts across web, Slack, email, and iMessage.
Devin, from Cognition, is an autonomous AI software engineer that plans, writes, tests, and ships code in its own cloud dev environment, integrating with GitHub. Cognition raised at a roughly $10B valuation in 2025, with reporting of a far larger round since.
The difference: A coding specialist, versus a coworker across your whole stack.
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Built around your work.
General
Beyond the codebase
Sauna isn't a coding agent. It drafts the plan, researches the market, files the ticket, and writes the update — the work around the code, not just the commit.
Memory
It remembers your work
Your projects, people, and decisions, kept across sessions, not scoped to a single repo.
Everywhere
Every surface
Web, iMessage, Slack, email, and Superhuman, shared with the whole team, not just engineering.
In context
It knows your work, and acts on it.
Sauna remembers your projects and the people in them, connects to the tools your team runs, and finishes the task — across the web app, Slack, email, iMessage, and Superhuman.
Good to know
Questions, answered.
Can Sauna write code like Devin?
Sauna can read files, run code, and open pull requests across GitHub and your tools. For fully autonomous, end-to-end engineering, a specialist like Devin goes deeper; Sauna is the generalist for everything around it.
Who is Sauna for if not just engineers?
Everyone on the team. Sauna works for sales, ops, marketing, and founders too, remembering the shared context and acting across the tools each role uses.
Is my data safe?
Sauna reads only what you connect, and acts only after you approve. Your workspace and its memory are yours, not training data.
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