Independently verified against live vendor data on Sep 7, 2026.
Transparency
Mostly Public
Contract
Month-to-month
Data training
Opt-out
Human in loop
Optional
Capabilities
ideagentic-codingmulti-file-editingautonomousterminal-agentcode-generation
Pros & Limitations
Editorial assessmentPros
- ✓Bundles interactive IDE coding with asynchronous cloud agents under one subscription, so a developer can keep editing locally while delegating longer tasks to Devin Cloud sessions and reviewing the results in the same surface.
- ✓MCP works in both directions, which is rare in this category. Devin Desktop connects out to external MCP servers such as the Slack MCP Server, and Cognition publishes its own MCP server with documented setup instructions for streamable HTTP clients.
- ✓Pricing is public and self-serve up to the Teams tier, with a permanently free plan and a documented usage-quota model, so a team can evaluate and adopt the product without talking to sales.
- ✓Devin Desktop is FedRAMP High authorized and meets DoD IL4, IL5 and IL6 through Palantir FedStart, with ITAR and FIPS 140-2 and 140-3 coverage on the same scope.
Limitations
- ⚠SAML and OIDC single sign-on, virtual private cloud deployment, teamspace isolation and centralized admin controls are all Enterprise-tier items, so the $20 Pro plan carries none of them and concurrent sessions are capped at ten.
- ⚠Customer data may be used for model training by default under Cognition's platform terms, and the contractual opt-out is restricted to paid tiers, so free-plan users have no opt-out at all. On the Teams tier only an administrator can exercise it.
- ⚠Cognition publishes customer outcome figures against anonymized categories such as Financial Institution or Technology Company rather than named accounts, and publishes no autonomous task-completion rate on any surface. FedRAMP High and the DoD impact levels cover Devin Desktop today, while the Devin Cloud agents are slated for the second half of 2026.
Technical Details
Deployment
desktopclicloudide
Model architectureMulti-model. SWE 1.7 proprietary plus OpenAI, Anthropic and Google frontier models and open-source models.
Autonomous rateCognition documents autonomous multi-step execution by local and cloud agents, with engineers reviewing agent diffs before pushing and, on large migration projects, approving the agent's changes. The customers page publishes outcome multiples such as a 70% reduction in .NET migration time attributed to anonymized customer categories rather than named accounts, and no autonomous task-completion rate is published on any Cognition surface as of Q3 2026.
Integrations
GitHubGitLabBitbucketSlackMicrosoft TeamsLinearJiraVS CodeJetBrainsNotionFigmaSentryStripeVercelDatadogConfluence
Security
SOC 2 Type IIISO 27001CCPAFedRAMP
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