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PLAN Free $0/mo PLAN Pro $20/mo PLAN Max $200/mo PLAN Teams $80/mo min + $40/seat Cognition FrontierCode (Oct 9) — score · cost per task Claude Opus 5.5 54.6% · $0.80/task Claude Fable 5 53.5% · $13.09/task Claude Opus 5 53.4% · $4.31/task GPT-6 Astra 53.3% · $4.59/task Claude Sonnet 5.5 52.1% · $1.59/task Claude Fable 5.1 50.9% · $3.28/task GPT-6.1 Sol 50.2% · $0.36/task SWE-2 50.0% · $1.18/task GPT-6 Sol 49.3% · $2.07/task Grok 4.6 48.0% · $2.88/task SWE-1.7 42.0% · $1.97/task SWE-1.6 9.4% · $0.49/task Devin Desktop: Continuity — 2026-10-25 Devin Desktop Update — 2026-10-24 BlackRock adopts Devin Plugins to govern AI agents at enterprise scale Cognizant and Cognition report 37% cost saving from Devin-powered AI e… Devin adds Microsoft Teams and 365 integrations Factory AI CEO accuses former board adviser of spying for rival Cognit… GPT-6.1 Sol added to Devin Desktop and CLI Devin Desktop: Continuity — 2026-10-23 PLAN Free $0/mo PLAN Pro $20/mo PLAN Max $200/mo PLAN Teams $80/mo min + $40/seat Cognition FrontierCode (Oct 9) — score · cost per task Claude Opus 5.5 54.6% · $0.80/task Claude Fable 5 53.5% · $13.09/task Claude Opus 5 53.4% · $4.31/task GPT-6 Astra 53.3% · $4.59/task Claude Sonnet 5.5 52.1% · $1.59/task Claude Fable 5.1 50.9% · $3.28/task GPT-6.1 Sol 50.2% · $0.36/task SWE-2 50.0% · $1.18/task GPT-6 Sol 49.3% · $2.07/task Grok 4.6 48.0% · $2.88/task SWE-1.7 42.0% · $1.97/task SWE-1.6 9.4% · $0.49/task Devin Desktop: Continuity — 2026-10-25 Devin Desktop Update — 2026-10-24 BlackRock adopts Devin Plugins to govern AI agents at enterprise scale Cognizant and Cognition report 37% cost saving from Devin-powered AI e… Devin adds Microsoft Teams and 365 integrations Factory AI CEO accuses former board adviser of spying for rival Cognit… GPT-6.1 Sol added to Devin Desktop and CLI Devin Desktop: Continuity — 2026-10-23

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What is Devin? A practical explainer

A clear overview of Devin — Cognition's AI software engineer — and when agentic coding actually helps you ship.

Devin is an AI software engineer from Cognition: an agent that can plan, write, run, and iterate on code with less step-by-step babysitting than a classic autocomplete pair.

What it is good at

  • Multi-step implementation work where the goal is clear
  • Exploring unfamiliar codebases with a stated objective
  • Turning tickets into pull-request-shaped output you still review

What it is not

Devin is not a replacement for engineering judgment. You still own architecture, security review, and merge decisions. Treat outputs like a junior teammate’s PR: useful, incomplete without review.

Who this is for

If you already use Cursor or Claude Desktop for assisted editing, Devin sits further toward autonomous execution — longer-running tasks, cloud/local agents, and workspace-style workflows — rather than inline completions alone.

Next steps

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