Agentic Index

Augment Code vs Cognition (2026)

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Augment Code and Cognition both moved from a single agent to coordinating several, the direction of this whole category. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.

Augment's Cosmos, released June 2026, puts teams of specialized agents to work across the development lifecycle, sharing memory and wired in through MCP and webhooks, on a Standard plan at $20 a month. Cognition's Devin Desktop, also June 2026, adds an Agent Command Center, Spaces for multi agent context sharing and agent protocol support, from a free tier to Max at $200 a month. Two products arriving at multi agent orchestration in the same month from opposite directions.

On the Agentic Index coding agent ranking, neither Augment Code nor Cognition clears the bar, which asks for all five merge loop capabilities documented in full. Neither documents testing, debugging and optimization in full. 3 of the 96 vendors in the lane clear it. See the coding agent ranking

This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Augment Code and Cognition are each graded against the same 14 capability Agentic Index taxonomy, from the vendor's own public materials under the Agentic Index verification standard, alongside 1,084 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded

Choose Augment Code if

  • A flat $20 a month with usage included is predictable as the team grows.
  • Shared memory across a specialized agent team is the coordination model you want.
  • Webhook integrations mean the agents react to events in your systems.

Choose Cognition if

  • A free tier lets individual engineers evaluate before a team decision.
  • An Agent Command Center as an explicit management surface is what you need.
  • Agent protocol support keeps you interoperable with tooling you have not chosen yet.
Feature
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Augment Code
C
Cognition
Action & orchestration

Integrations & Tool Calling

Ability to connect agents to real systems through native integrations, OAuth-authenticated actions, custom tools, APIs, webhooks, or MCP-compatible tools.

Workflow Orchestration

Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps.

Triggers & Channel Coverage

How agents wake up and where they work: schedules, webhooks, message events, CRM events, inbox events, chat, email, voice, and collaboration tools.
Knowledge & context

Knowledge Grounding & RAG

Ability to ground agent behavior in company data through document ingestion, retrieval, external knowledge APIs, semantic search, or RAG layers.

Memory & State Persistence

Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer.
Control & trust

Human Oversight & Guardrails

Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls.

Security, Identity & Governance

RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy.

Observability & Auditability

Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior.

Deployment & Data Residency

Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting.
Solution readiness

Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs

Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value.
Platform extensibility

Model Flexibility & Routing

Ability to work across multiple foundation models, route tasks to different models, or let buyers bring their own providers and keys.

APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility

Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems.

Testing, Debugging & Optimization

Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment.
Specialist automation

Browser & Computer Use

Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone.

Pricing snapshot

Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.

Pricing
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Augment Code
C
Cognition

Entry price

Lowest public entry point

 From $20 per month flat (Standard, up to 50 seats, $20 of usage included) Free tier, Pro at $20 a month, Max at $200 a month, Teams at $40 a month per full seat with an $80 monthly minimum, and Enterprise at custom pricing.

Pricing confidence

How public the numbers are

 Public, partial Public, exact

Billing

Primary billing axis

 A flat monthly team plan with a dollar amount of usage included, plus metered LLM and compute usage beyond it. Monthly plans with an included usage quota, plus prepaid on demand credits for usage beyond it. Teams charges $40 a month per full seat with an $80 monthly minimum, and flex seats are free.

Variable cost

Workload / overage exposure

 High variable cost High variable cost

Free tier / trial

Try before you buy
No free tierTrial
Free tierTrial

Buying motion

Self-serve vs sales call

 Mixed Self-serve

Pricing verified

When this pricing was last checked

Product updates

Newest first, each linked to its source.

Augment Code

  • · Funding / partnership

    Augment Code agreed to sell Cosmos, the Auggie CLI, the Code Context Engine and related technology to Harness, and the team behind those products is moving to Harness to keep developing them.

    Source

  • · Observability / auditability

    Augment Code released Cosmos Week 30, introducing session forking to branch conversations from completed turns and cost analytics with detailed charts for enterprise organizations.

    Source

  • · Workflow orchestration

    Augment Code released Auggie CLI 0.33.0, introducing cloud triggers to enable or disable persistent workflow triggers and a worker sessions view to display child worker processes.

    Source
All 6 Augment Code updates →

Cognition

  • · Agent capability

    Deep scans in Devin Security now hunt for complex chained exploits across large codebases, using Claude Mythos and other frontier cyber models that enterprises reach through Devin without separate model access.

    Source

  • · Memory / state

    Devin now remembers what it learns about each user and their work across sessions, in memory that is personal to the user and not shared with the organization.

    Source

  • · Integrations

    Devin now works as a native agent inside Jira through the Devin for Jira app.

    Source
All 26 Cognition updates →

Both products shipped their multi agent capabilities in June 2026, so reviews and comparisons written before that describe materially different tools. Verify current capability directly rather than relying on secondary sources.

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