Agentic Index
Cognition vs Cosine (2026)
Devin and Genie are direct rivals: assign a ticket, get a tested pull request. Devin leads on ecosystem, desktop tooling, and brand. Cosine's Genie differentiates on sovereignty and specialized models, with its Lumen family post trained for languages like COBOL, Fortran, and Verilog, plus on device and fully air gapped deployment for regulated teams.
| At a glance | Cognition | Cosine |
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| Category | Coding agent | Coding agent |
| Entry price | Free · Pro $20/mo · Max $200/mo · Teams $80/mo + $40/seat · Enterprise custom | Hobby $20/seat/mo (5M credits) · Professional $200/seat/mo (60M credits) · credits per task; top-ups available · BYO Claude/OpenAI/Copilot uses your own subscription · enterprise air-gapped custom |
| Free / trial | Free tier: light agent quota, limited model availability, unlimited inline edits and Tab completions. | No free tier surfaced; entry is the $20/seat Hobby plan. Note: running Genie on your own Claude/OpenAI/Copilot subscription via the CLI incurs no extra Cosine model billing. |
| Pricing confidence | public exact | public exact |
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| Action & orchestration | ||
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Integrations & Tool Calling Ability to connect agents to real systems through native integrations, OAuth-authenticated actions, custom tools, APIs, webhooks, or MCP-compatible tools. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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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. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
| Knowledge & context | ||
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Knowledge Grounding & RAG Ability to ground agent behavior in company data through document ingestion, retrieval, external knowledge APIs, semantic search, or RAG layers. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
Full / Explicit
Devin Desktop + Spaces (June 2026) enable shared context persistence across related agents and cloud sessions. |
No / Not documented |
| Control & trust | ||
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
Full / Explicit | Partial |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
Full / Explicit | Partial |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
Partial | Partial |
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Deployment & Data Residency Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting. |
Partial | Full / Explicit |
| Solution readiness | ||
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Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value. |
No / Not documented | No / Not documented |
| Platform extensibility | ||
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Model Flexibility & Routing Ability to work across multiple foundation models, route tasks to different models, or let buyers bring their own providers and keys. |
No / Not documented | Full / Explicit |
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APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems. |
Full / Explicit | Partial |
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Testing, Debugging & Optimization Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment. |
Partial | Partial |
| Specialist automation | ||
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Browser & Computer Use Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone. |
Full / Explicit | Partial |
Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Free · Pro $20/mo · Max $200/mo · Teams $80/mo + $40/seat · Enterprise custom | Hobby $20/seat/mo (5M credits) · Professional $200/seat/mo (60M credits) · credits per task; top-ups available · BYO Claude/OpenAI/Copilot uses your own subscription · enterprise air-gapped custom |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Public — exact | Public — exact |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
quota + usage beyond quota | Seat-based subscription with a monthly Cosine Credit pool per seat (credits consumed when the agent reads, plans, or writes code); additional seats add users and credits; top-ups available; enterprise/air-gapped via custom agreements. BYO model subscription path bills model usage to your own provider. |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
High variable cost | High variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
Free tierTrial
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No free tier
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Self-serve | Self-serve |
Choose Cognition if
- You want the mainstream choice with the largest ecosystem and managed cloud maturity.
- Sub agent parallelism on large migrations is your core workload.
- Free and 20 dollar tiers let individuals prove value before a team commitment.
Choose Cosine if
- Legacy languages matter: Lumen models are post trained for COBOL, Fortran, Verilog, and complex SQL.
- Air gapped or on device deployment inside your perimeter is a hard requirement.
- Running Genie on your own Claude, OpenAI, or Copilot subscription keeps model spend where it already lives.