Cognition vs Factory (2026)

Native integrations cover GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, Linear and PagerDuty, and MCP reaches hundreds of other tools and data sources.

Dynamic workflows are Python scripts that orchestrate a team of Devin agents in stages, in parallel on separate VMs, passing structured results between stages.

Automations fire on Slack, GitHub, GitLab, Linear, Jira, Pylon, PagerDuty, schedule and webhook events without anyone tagging Devin, and scheduled sessions add recurring work.

Automations start Droid on a schedule, a Slack message, a GitHub event or a webhook, and droid exec runs in GitHub Actions on cron.

Devin indexes connected repositories into DeepWiki wikis with architecture diagrams and source links that Ask Devin searches for context.

AutoWiki keeps a searchable wiki of each repository's architecture, modules and conventions, regenerated on every push.

Knowledge that Devin suggests and users approve is scoped from one repository up to the enterprise and can be disabled, but no lifetime or purge path is documented.

Sessions resume across app, CLI, web and mobile, but no memory layer with a stated scope and lifetime is documented.

Devin's proposed Knowledge is saved only after a user approves it, AI guardrails can block messages and PR comments before Devin acts, and security profiles apply reusable restrictions.

SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 are assessed annually by independent auditors, and Enterprise adds SAML and OIDC SSO, IdP group mapping and custom roles for fine grained RBAC.

SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 reports sit in the Trust Center, beside SSO, SCIM, three organization roles and an audit log.

The session Progress tab shows shell commands, code edits and browser activity step by step after the fact, with Session Insights timelines and guardrail events in audit logs.

Each turn exports an OpenTelemetry trace of model calls and tool runs to the customer's collector, and an organization audit log records who did what.

Outposts run Devin sessions on the customer's own VMs, containers, Kubernetes clusters or on premises machines while inference stays in Devin's cloud, and Enterprise adds a Cognition hosted single tenant VPC over PrivateLink.

Cloud managed, hybrid and fully airgapped deployment patterns are documented, with an EU pattern and Enterprise data residency, dedicated compute and on premises options named.

The Devin official marketplace offers integration plugins bundling skills, rules, hooks, MCP servers and subagents that administrators install or require, alongside reusable playbooks.

Users pick among Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Cognition and open models by flag, command or config default, and Enterprise teams restrict which models are available.

Customers pick among hosted models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI and Factory, let the Factory Router choose, or bring their own keys and local models under enterprise model policy.

The Devin API is documented across more than 300 reference pages, with an Outposts API and CLI reference and a CLI plugin format for programmatic control of sessions.

Devin tests its own changes, Devin Review checks pull requests and Session Insights reviews completed sessions, but no harness to evaluate agent behavior across a suite is documented.

Agent Readiness, review and QA automations test the customer's repository and code, but no harness evaluates Droid's own behavior.

Each session includes an interactive browser Devin operates for testing and visual verification, with screenshots and videos captured for the user.

Droid Control, an official plugin, operates terminal CLIs, web apps and Electron apps with clicks, typing and screenshots, on runtime tools the customer installs.