Cognition
Also known as: Devin, Windsurf, Codeium, Devin Desktop, Devin Cloud, Devin Review, Devin Local, Cognition AI, Cognition Labs
Maker of Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer. Devin Desktop (June 2026) adds an Agent Command Center, Spaces for multi-agent context sharing, and ACP support, shifting from coding assistant toward multi-agent management.
Cognition is the company behind Devin, one of the first AI systems marketed as an autonomous software engineer rather than a coding assistant. Founded in 2023, Cognition built Devin to take on engineering work end to end: given a task from a ticket or a chat message, Devin spins up its own cloud sandbox with a full development setup, a shell, a browser, and an editor, then plans the work, writes the code, runs and tests it, and opens a pull request for review, all while the developer does something else.
What distinguishes Devin is how much it is built to operate without a human in the loop. It tests its own work using computer use, reviews and fixes its own code, can coordinate teams of sub-agents working in parallel, and can schedule its own jobs. Cognition is candid that Devin is strongest on well-scoped tasks, the kind of clearly specified work that would take a junior engineer a few hours, and treats it as a teammate you delegate to rather than a tool you drive keystroke by keystroke.
In 2025 Cognition acquired Windsurf, the agentic IDE that began as Codeium, giving it a second surface alongside the cloud agent. That product has since been rebranded Devin Desktop. It pairs a full editor, with autocomplete and debugging, with an Agent Command Center that puts local and cloud agents in a single Kanban view of what is running, waiting for review, and done, and Spaces that let multiple agents share context and Git worktrees. It also ships Cognition's own fast coding models, the SWE series, and features like Codemaps for visualizing code structure and Fast Context for retrieving the exact files an agent needs.
Together, the two surfaces reflect Cognition's bet on a single workflow: think and prototype locally, delegate longer implementation, testing, and deployment to a cloud agent, then review the resulting pull request in one place. Devin is used by enterprise engineering teams to parallelize routine development work, and Cognition continues to position it as a step from assisted coding toward autonomous software engineering.
Vendor details
Canonical URL
https://cognition.com
Category
Coding agent
Subcategory
Autonomous cloud software engineer (Devin Cloud, Desktop, Review, DeepWiki)
Funding status
Private. Seed 21M USD led by Founders Fund Mar 2024, Series A 175M USD, Series B undisclosed, Series C 400M USD+ led by Founders Fund Sept 2025 at a reported 10.2B USD valuation, Series D over 1B USD closed 27 May 2026 at a reported 26B USD post money. Company wide revenue run rate reported at roughly 492M USD as of May 2026, against 73M USD for Devin standalone in June 2025 and 82M USD for Windsurf at deal close. Valuation and ARR figures are third party reported and were not confirmed against a Cognition filing; the company does not file with SEC EDGAR.
Company status
independent
Use cases & customers
Primary use cases
Target customers
Deployment options
Integrations
Roughly seventeen named integrations plus a stated reach of hundreds of tools: GitHub, Linear, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Datadog, Sentry, AWS, Azure, Snowflake, Databricks, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Notion, Asana, Airtable, Segment, Stripe and Google Drive. GitHub integration closes the loop, picking up review feedback and CI results to carry a pull request through to merge; Linear tickets are assigned directly or by label; Devin is tagged in Slack or Teams to surface context or turn a discussion into a pull request. A public Devin API and a no-code Devin Automations product allow programmatic invocation on Teams and Enterprise tiers, and Devin Desktop supports the Agent Client Protocol so agents interoperate across clients. The product family is Devin Cloud, Devin Desktop, Devin Review, Ask Devin, DeepWiki (public at deepwiki.com) and the newly launched Security Swarm.
In practice
You have a backlog of well-scoped tickets and no one to work them. You hand one to Devin from a Slack message or Linear issue, and it spins up a sandbox, writes and tests the code, and returns a draft pull request to review.
You want to keep coding locally while longer work happens in the background. Devin Desktop's Agent Command Center shows your local and cloud agents in one Kanban view, so you track what's running, waiting for review, and done.
A migration needs many similar changes done in parallel rather than one engineer grinding through them. Devin can run teams of sub-agents at once, each implementing and testing its piece, then surface the results for review.
Sources & related URLs
Related / legacy domains
Agentic Index coverage score
10.5 / 14 capabilities · 75%
| Integrations & Tool Calling | Full |
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Named integrations include GitHub, Linear, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Datadog, Sentry, AWS, Azure, Snowflake, Databricks, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Notion, Asana, Airtable, Segment, Stripe and Google Drive, with the vendor stating Devin works with hundreds of tools. GitHub integration ships pull requests the way the team does, picking up review feedback and CI results to get each one approved and merged; tickets are assigned in Linear directly or by label; Devin is tagged in Slack or Teams conversations to surface context or turn a discussion into a pull request. Sourcedevin.airead 2026-08-30 |
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| Workflow Orchestration | Full |
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Devin spins up a team of Devins for large tasks and assigns a fleet of agents to migrate all repositories in parallel, supporting multi-week, multi-repository projects with complete auditability at each step; a single task runs plan, code, test and pull request end to end in a cloud sandbox, and Devin Desktop's Agent Command Center presents local and cloud agents in one view of what is running, awaiting review and done, with Spaces letting multiple agents share context and Git worktrees. Sourcedevin.ai and cognition.com/blog/introducing-devin-desktopread 2026-08-30 |
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| Knowledge Grounding & RAG | Full |
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Devin learns the customer's codebase and picks up tribal knowledge, with new knowledge surfaced for human approval before it is retained and scoped to context such as working in a particular repository; DeepWiki auto-generates documentation and system diagrams for legacy codebases giving visibility into systems the team did not build, and is published publicly at deepwiki.com. Devin Desktop adds Codemaps for visualising code structure and Fast Context for retrieving the exact files an agent needs, and Devin is built for complex multi-repository projects. Sourcedevin.ai, deepwiki.com and cognition.com/blog/introducing-devin-desktopread 2026-08-30 |
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| Human Oversight & Guardrails | Full |
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Devin Review ships configurable run controls of manual only, run when a pull request is first opened, or run on every commit, with the vendor stating customers should decide how often automatic work happens and migrating existing every-commit users to the pull-request-open default; new knowledge Devin picks up is surfaced for human approval before retention and is scoped to a stated context; work is delivered as a pull request for review, and Devin Desktop's Agent Command Center presents a single view of what is running, awaiting review and done. Sourcedevin.ai and cognition.com/blog/new-self-serve-plans-for-devinread 2026-08-30 |
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| Security, Identity & Governance | Full |
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A published Trust Center documents security practices, compliance certifications and data privacy commitments, with SOC 2 Type 2 stated by the vendor, FedRAMP High reported as in-process from July 2026 and a dedicated federal compliance page. Named controls documented individually: single sign-on via Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, generic SAML 2.0 and generic OIDC; SCIM 2.0 user and group provisioning; IdP group integration; custom roles and role-based access control; IP access lists restricting API and web app access by CIDR; customer-managed AWS KMS keys for encryption at rest on Enterprise Assured; secrets and site cookies management; OIDC short-lived keyless cloud access; security profiles restricting network, MCP, git and GitHub CLI access bindable to orgs, automations and sessions; AI guardrails screening messages for prompt injection, data exfiltration and policy violations; and attribution filtering screening generated code against public repositories and blocking matches before they are written. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest with each session on an isolated machine. Trust centre contents were not retrieved. Sourcedocs.devin.ai/enterprise/security-access/trust-center, docs.devin.ai/enterprise/features/ai-guardrails, docs.devin.ai/enterprise/features/attribution-filtering and docs.devin.ai/product-guides/security-profilesread 2026-08-30 |
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| Observability & Auditability | Partial |
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Session Insights analyses a customer's Devin sessions and returns actionable feedback to improve future interactions, so sessions persist as inspectable objects; ACU consumption is metered per session with a documented usage guide, enterprise billing analytics tracking consumption and per-user limits, Personal Analytics letting users view their own consumption, and a federal service-key API exposing team, group and per-user ACU consumption over historical windows. Devin Coach adds analytics on suggestion outcomes and blockers. Migration work is marketed as carrying complete auditability at each step, and per-session audit logs are reported by a Cognition enablement partner. Sourcedocs.devin.ai/product-guides/session-insights, docs.devin.ai/admin/billing/usage and docs.devin.ai/enterprise/security-access/personal-analyticsread 2026-08-30 |
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| Memory & State Persistence | Full |
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The vendor states Devin gets better over time by reading past session trajectories, so prior runs are retained and inform later ones; a curated knowledge layer persists tribal knowledge approved by the team and scoped to context such as a particular repository, and Devin Desktop's Spaces let multiple agents share context and Git worktrees across related agents and cloud sessions. Sourcedevin.ai and cognition.com/blog/introducing-devin-desktopread 2026-08-30 |
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| Deployment & Data Residency | Partial |
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Devin Outposts runs sessions on the customer's own infrastructure with self-hosted workers, documented across an overview, quickstart, orchestration guide, API and CLI reference and partner integrations. Two hosted models are documented alongside it: Enterprise Cloud, where brain and Devbox run in Cognition's multi-tenant cloud with each session on its own isolated machine, and Customer Dedicated Deployment, where the Devbox runs in a customer-isolated single-tenant VPC connected to the customer's VPC by AWS PrivateLink or IPSec with MFA VPN and OpenVPN support; Enterprise Assured adds customer-managed AWS KMS keys for encryption at rest. Separate federal deployments exist, and GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Data Residency is supported. In the hosted models the brain always resides in Cognition's cloud as a stateless service, requiring egress over HTTPS and a persistent secure WebSocket. Sourcedocs.devin.ai/cloud/outposts/overview, docs.devin.ai/enterprise/deployment/overview and docs.devin.ai/enterprise/security-access/security/customer-managed-keysread 2026-08-30 |
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| Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs | Unable to verify |
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A Plugin marketplace lets administrators install and require bundles of skills for everyone in an organisation or enterprise from the Devin web app, with a documented plugin ecosystem for building, hosting and governing a shared set under policy controls, and a team marketplace quickstart for shared skills, rules, hooks and MCP servers. Playbooks are documented as building a library of reusable prompts for the organisation, with separate creating and using guides; Devin Skills teach reusable procedures through committed SKILL.md files; an MCP Marketplace is published, alongside a use-case gallery, a tutorial library and a prompt templates cheat sheet. Sourcedocs.devin.ai/product-guides/plugins, docs.devin.ai/product-guides/creating-playbooks, docs.devin.ai/product-guides/skills and docs.devin.ai/work-with-devin/mcpread 2026-08-30 |
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| Triggers & Channel Coverage | Full |
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Work reaches Devin from Datadog incidents, Slack and Teams mentions, Linear tickets or labels, GitHub events and CI failures, and can be scheduled for recurring chores such as daily QA, release notes and documentation maintenance; the Devin API and Devin Automations allow full programmatic invocation. Devin Review supports configurable run triggers of manual only, run when a pull request is first opened, or run on every commit, with the vendor migrating existing every-commit users to pull-request-open by default. Sourcedevin.ai and cognition.com/blog/new-self-serve-plans-for-devinread 2026-08-30 |
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| Model Flexibility & Routing | Unable to verify |
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Devin documents a dedicated Models page covering available models and how to configure them, an Adaptive model router described as Cognition's intelligent router that automatically selects the best AI model for each task, and federal Model Provisioning controlling Cascade, Command and CLI model availability by team and group, with group management exposing model availability alongside ACU limits. Cognition also ships its own SWE series models. Bring-your-own-key is explicitly refused: the enterprise deployment FAQ states Devin is a compound AI system and does not currently support third-party LLM API keys. The specific provider list was not retrieved. Sourcedocs.devin.ai/cli/models, docs.devin.ai/cli/adaptive, docs.devin.ai/federal/model-provisioning and docs.devin.ai/enterprise/deployment/overviewread 2026-08-30 |
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| APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility | Full |
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A public Devin API allows full programmatic control and is offered alongside Devin Automations for automating work without code, with the vendor positioning both as the path to automating entirely; Devin Desktop supports the Agent Client Protocol so agents interoperate across clients, and Cognition provides an SDK for developers building on Devin. API access is documented as a Teams and Enterprise tier capability rather than available on lower self-serve plans. Sourcedevin.ai and cognition.com/blog/introducing-devin-desktopread 2026-08-30 |
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| Testing, Debugging & Optimization | Partial |
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Devin performs unit and end-to-end testing, visual QA with browser and desktop use on its own output, automatic CI failure fixing, and performance optimisation, and Devin Review identifies and resolves bugs in pull requests; a newly launched Security Swarm product reviews code for security issues. These verify the customer's code and the agent's own output rather than providing an evaluation harness the customer points at agent behaviour, and no agent benchmarking or regression surface is exposed to customers. Sourcedevin.ai and devin.ai/securityread 2026-08-30 |
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| Browser & Computer Use | Full |
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Visual QA is listed as a headline use case with full browser and desktop use, alongside repetitive browser task automation, web research and scraping, and unit and end-to-end testing; Devin's sandbox is described as including a shell, a browser and an editor, and browser actions are named in the vendor's own definition of the Agent Compute Unit as a billable component of a run. Sourcedevin.ai and cognition.com/blog/new-self-serve-plans-for-devinread 2026-08-30 |
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Recent platform changes
Devin Local is now enabled by default for enterprise customers, allowing workloads to run in local environments. The update also introduces Devin Coach, which surfaces prompt-improvement suggestions directly in the session input box as users type.
Bears on: Deployment / data residency
View sourceCognition graduated its Automations feature to a production v3 API, adding queueing support for concurrent runs and depth limits. Additionally, security profiles and personal access tokens are now generally available, and legacy Cascade is disabled by default for enterprise tiers.
Bears on: Workflow orchestration
View sourceCognition has integrated SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6 model into Devin's autonomous software-engineering platform. The new model reportedly ranks third on Cognition's internal FrontierCode 1.1 benchmark.
Bears on: Agent capability
View sourcePricing
Free · Pro $20/mo · Max $200/mo · Teams $80/mo + $40/seat · Enterprise custom
quota + usage beyond quota
Included quota
Pro, Max, Teams, Enterprise announced; exact included quotas not public in captured excerpt
What is public
Cognition announced a new self-serve lineup for Devin: Free, Pro ($20/month), Max ($200/month), Teams (usage-based with a minimum spend of $80/month), and Enterprise (custom). [9]
Billing mechanics
The post is unusually clear that included plan usage now counts against quota and that any usage beyond quota is billed in dollars rather than ACUs for self-serve users. It also says Ask Devin, Devin Review, and premium DeepWiki modes are moving to usage-based billing. Devin Review gets a 2-week free trial, after which a typical review run is expected to cost about $2–$3; DeepWiki for open-source repos remains free. [9]
Cost watchouts
Usage beyond quota, Devin Review runs, Ask Devin/DeepWiki usage
Variable cost rationale
Usage beyond quota is billed separately, Teams has a minimum spend, and review/knowledge features add run-based cost.
Overage / add-ons
Teams min spend $80/mo; overage billed in dollars; Devin Review typically ~$2–$3/run
Sales call required
No, self serve available
Free / trial
Free tier: light agent quota, limited model availability, unlimited inline edits and Tab completions.
Lowest paid plan
$20/mo
Key ambiguities
Included quotas not public in captured post
Cancellation / refund
n/p in captured pricing materials
Support SLA / resale
Enterprise available; no public SLA found
Missing data
The captured official material did not expose the included quotas for Pro and Max, a public refund policy, or public contract terms for Teams beyond the $80 minimum. For a website comparison, Devin should be marked public partial. [9]
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