Comparison Guide
Delvyn Studio vs BMAD-METHOD
BMAD runs role-playing AI agents that simulate a product team inside your coding tool. Delvyn gives your real product team a system of record — and turns it into specs agents can execute.
When is BMAD-METHOD enough?
BMAD is free, open source, and genuinely popular with developers. Here's when the framework alone is all you need.
BMAD is enough when…
- You're a developer prototyping or building greenfield projects
- No real product organization is involved in decisions
- Product context can be invented per project by an AI agent
- You're comfortable configuring an open-source framework
- Everything happens inside Claude Code, Cursor, or similar
- Nobody outside the repo needs to read the plan
You need Delvyn when…
- Real PMs own strategy — it shouldn't be improvised by an agent
- OKRs and discovery evidence decide what gets built
- Product context must persist across quarters, not sessions
- Stakeholders review specs without opening a coding tool
- Multiple coding agents need one consistent source of truth
- You want a learning loop that improves future specs
The core difference
BMAD-METHOD simulates a product team — its analyst and PM agents generate product context from whatever prompt a developer provides. Delvyn works from your team's real context — the vision you committed to, the discovery you ran, the OKRs you're measured on. Simulated context produces plausible specs. Real context produces aligned ones.
How they work together
Give BMAD's agents real product context instead of letting them invent it. Delvyn writes the spec; BMAD orchestrates the build.
1. Think
Define vision, validate through discovery, set OKR success criteria in Delvyn
2. Specify
Generate an agent spec with full strategic context from Delvyn
3. Push
Spec lands in your GitHub repo with acceptance criteria attached
4. BMAD Executes
BMAD's architect and dev agents plan and build from the real spec
Pricing comparison
Delvyn Studio
$9/leader/mo
Engineers & stakeholders are always free
Hosted, zero setup, with integrations, AI coaching, and support included.
BMAD-METHOD
Free
MIT-licensed open source
Free to use — you invest the setup, configuration, and maintenance time, plus the LLM usage costs of running its agents.
Give your agents real product context
Start free and generate your first product specification from actual vision, discovery, and OKRs — not from a role-play prompt.