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Cognition

Developer of Devin, an AI software engineering agent

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About Cognition

Cognition builds Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer, and offers the Windsurf development environment after acquiring it in 2025. Engineering teams use its agents to write, test and maintain code.

Common use cases

  • Code migration
  • Bug fixing
  • Test generation
  • Feature development

Social listening

What people are saying about Cognition

A review describes Devin as effective on well-specified, verifiable tasks, and buyers typically plan for human review and usage-based billing.

What stands out

  • Reviewers find it handles tedious, well-specified work such as dependency upgrades, tests and migrations.
  • It works best where success is easy to verify automatically, and many tasks can run in parallel.

Things to consider

  • Best suited to well-specified tasks; open-ended or architectural work needs close review.
  • Worth writing clear tickets and planning sandboxing and review, as it may proceed without clarifying questions.
  • Worth setting usage monitoring and budget controls for usage-based billing.
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Themes summarized from public reviews, community discussion and press coverage as of November 2026. They reflect public discussion, not a rating or an endorsement by AI Connect.

Products and services

Devin

Cloud-based autonomous coding agent with its own sandbox that takes tasks from Slack, a web UI or ticket trackers and opens pull requests.

Windsurf

AI-assisted IDE acquired by Cognition in 2025.

Pricing and editions. Billing is usage-based in compute units, with an entry tier introduced with Devin 2.0; rates have changed several times, so verify with the vendor.

Recent product updates

  • Cognition acquired Windsurf in July 2025, with plans to bring Devin into the IDE.
  • Devin 2.0 relaunched with a lower-priced entry tier and usage-based billing, per a 2026 review.

Key features

  • Autonomous coding agent
  • Code review
  • Task delegation
  • IDE integration
  • Enterprise controls

Integrations

  • GitHub
  • Slack
  • Jira

Cognition alternatives

  • GitHub Copilot
  • Cursor
  • Anthropic Claude Code
  • OpenAI Codex

FAQs

What is Devin?

An autonomous AI software engineer.

Does it integrate with Git?

Yes, with common developer tools.

What is Windsurf?

An AI code editor Cognition acquired.

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