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Cognition's SWE-2 is 64% cheaper than a number it published for someone else — and it loses the one benchmark Devin is sold for
SWE-2 shipped into Devin on 10 September 2026, scoring 50.0% on FrontierCode 1.1 Main against Fable 5.1's 50.9% at a claimed 64% lower cost. Every dollar figure in the launch belongs to a competitor: Cognition publishes Fable 5.1 Medium at $3.28 per task and gives SWE-2 no rate card, no API and no model card, because it exists only inside Devin's ACU billing. And on Terminal-Bench 4 — long-horizon agentic work, which is what Devin is for — SWE-2 scores 27.3% against 55.8% and 57.9%.
Read story →Cognition closes $1B+ round at $26B valuation — Devin ARR at $492M, U.S. Army and Navy among enterprise customers
Cognition (Devin + Windsurf parent) closed $1B+ on May 27, 2026 at a $26B post-money valuation — co-led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst, and 8VC, with Ribbit Capital, Atreides Management, and Founders Fund participating. Valuation more than doubled from $10.2B (Sept 2025) in eight months. Devin ARR is now $492M — up from $73M (June 2025), a 6.7× jump. Enterprise customers include Goldman Sachs, Citi, Mercedes-Benz, the U.S. Army, and the U.S. Navy.
Read story →Cognition in funding talks at $25B valuation — Devin + Windsurf becoming the standalone harness empire
Cognition — the company behind Devin and the December 2025 acquirer of Windsurf — is reportedly in funding talks at a $25 billion valuation, more than doubling from the $10.2B September 2025 round. Devin ARR grew from $1M (Sept 2024) to $73M (June 2025); Windsurf added $82M ARR at acquisition. Cognition's proprietary SWE-1.5 model now powers both products. The clearest signal yet that the agentic-coding harness layer is a venture-grade category.
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