Overview |
Cognition AI (also known as Cognition Labs) is a San Francisco-based applied AI startup founded in November 2023 by IOI gold‑medalist programmers. Their core product, Devin, is billed as the world’s first autonomous AI software engineer: a reasoning-capable agent that uses developer tools – shell, code editor, browser – in a sandbox to plan and execute software tasks, learn over time, fix bugs, and collaborate in real time. In April 2025, Devin 2.0 launched with enhanced features like a cloud IDE, interactive task planning, parallel agent usage, and integrated code search & documentation (Devin Search & Devin Wiki), along with a massive price drop. |
Key features & benefits |
- Autonomous planning and execution of complex tasks across thousands of decisions, improving over time with contextual learning .
- Full developer tool access inside sandboxed environment: shell, browser, code editor
- Interactive collaboration: real‑time updates, user feedback, choice of control.
- Devin 2.0 enhancements: cloud IDE, ability to run multiple Devins in parallel, interactive planning to scope tasks, smart codebase search and auto‑generated documentation (Devin Search & Devin Wiki)
- Cost-effective: pricing reduced from ~$500/month to $20/month entry, and pay‑as‑you‑go model based on compute units, making it accessible to individuals and teams.
- Trusted by enterprises: deployed at Goldman Sachs to augment hundreds to thousands of developers
- Expanded platform via acquisition of Windsurf IDE, adding strong IP, enterprise users, and tooling to strengthen integration capabilities.
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Use cases and applications |
- Ticket resolution, small bug fixes in Slack/Linear/Jira workflows
- First‑draft PR creation for backlog tasks
- Targeted code refactors and migrations (languages, versions, structure)
- Data engineering tasks: ETL, data cleaning, warehouse migration
- Frontend bug resolution, unit & E2E test generation, SaaS integrations
- Codebase exploration, onboarding, technical debt management, performance optimization, documenting codebases via autogenerated diagrams and links .
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Who uses? |
- Engineering teams in enterprises (e.g. Goldman Sachs) to scale development and offload repetitive work .
- Software developers and teams across backend, frontend, data engineering, QA, and dev‑ops looking to accelerate workflows.
- Independent or small‑team developers thanks to affordable plans.
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Pricing |
- Devin 2.0 entry-level: $20/month, plus pay-as-you-go compute‑based pricing (per “Agent Compute Unit”)
- Previous pricing was ~$500/month for earlier versions.
- Enterprise tier available (contact sales) for enhanced capabilities, security, control .
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Tags |
AI software engineer, autonomous coding agent, cloud IDE, code automation, developer productivity, DevOps tool, AI agent, code documentation, code search |
App available? |
No app, Devin features integrations and interfaces including cloud-based IDE, VSCode-like environment, Slack & Linear integration, and browser/shell/editor in sandbox . |