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Cognition AI

Cognition AI is an applied AI lab building Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer that plans, writes, tests, and ships production code. The company also operates the Windsurf agentic IDE following its 2025 acquisition of the Windsurf team and product. Devin is sold to individual developers, engineering teams, and enterprises as a managed agent that integrates with GitHub, Linear, Slack, Jira, and CI systems to handle migrations, PR review, bug triage, documentation, and scheduled engineering work. Cognition exposes a v3 REST API (Organization and Enterprise scopes) plus a CLI so customers can program Devin into their own workflows. Pricing runs from a free tier through Pro ($20/mo), Max ($200/mo), Teams ($80/seat/mo), and custom Enterprise plans with SAML/OIDC SSO and VPC deployment.

Cognition AI publishes 7 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Attachments API, AuditLogs API, Enterprise API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include Autonomous Agents, AI Software Engineer, Coding Agents, Developer Productivity, and DevOps.

Cognition AI’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, release notes, and 12 more developer resources.

43.0/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 45/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreeSelf serve⚡ Free to try
8 APIs
Autonomous AgentsAI Software EngineerCoding AgentsDeveloper ProductivityDevOpsCode MigrationCode ReviewGitHub IntegrationEnterprise AIAgentic WorkflowsIDELLM Applications

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 43.0/100 · developing
Contract Quality 14.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 45/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 9 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 8

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Devin API

The Devin API is a REST interface for creating and managing autonomous engineering sessions, knowledge, playbooks, secrets, and analytics across an organization or enterprise. I...

Cognition AI Attachments API

Operations for file uploads

Cognition AI AuditLogs API

Operations for managing audit logs

Cognition AI Enterprise API

Operations for enterprise-specific features and reporting

Cognition AI Knowledge API

Operations for managing knowledge

Cognition AI Playbooks API

Operations for managing playbooks

Cognition AI Secrets API

Operations for managing secrets and credentials

Cognition AI Sessions API

Operations for creating and managing Devin sessions

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Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Devin External API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Cognition Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Cognition Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Cognition Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Cognition Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy published

SECURITY

Cognition Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Cognition Agentic Access

23 operations · 14 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

23 operations · 14 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: cognition
name: Cognition AI
description: Cognition AI is an applied AI lab building Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer that plans, writes, tests,
  and ships production code. The company also operates the Windsurf agentic IDE following its 2025 acquisition of the Windsurf
  team and product. Devin is sold to individual developers, engineering teams, and enterprises as a managed agent that integrates
  with GitHub, Linear, Slack, Jira, and CI systems to handle migrations, PR review, bug triage, documentation, and scheduled
  engineering work. Cognition exposes a v3 REST API (Organization and Enterprise scopes) plus a CLI so customers can program
  Devin into their own workflows. Pricing runs from a free tier through Pro ($20/mo), Max ($200/mo), Teams ($80/seat/mo),
  and custom Enterprise plans with SAML/OIDC SSO and VPC deployment.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Free · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Provider
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cognition.png
tags:
- Autonomous Agents
- AI Software Engineer
- Coding Agents
- Developer Productivity
- DevOps
- Code Migration
- Code Review
- GitHub Integration
- Enterprise AI
- Agentic Workflows
- IDE
- LLM Applications
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cognition/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis:
- aid: cognition:devin-api
  name: Devin API
  description: The Devin API is a REST interface for creating and managing autonomous engineering sessions, knowledge, playbooks,
    secrets, and analytics across an organization or enterprise. It lets developers programmatically dispatch Devin to plan,
    code, test, and ship work, and to retrieve session results for downstream automation. Endpoints are organized into Organization
    (`/v3/organizations/*`) and Enterprise (`/v3/enterprise/*`) scopes.
  humanURL: https://docs.devin.ai
  baseURL: https://api.devin.ai/v3
  tags:
  - Devin
  - Sessions
  - Agents
  - Knowledge
  - Playbooks
  - Secrets
  - Audit Logs
  - Enterprise
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.devin.ai
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.devin.ai/get-started/devin-quickstart
  - type: Signup
    url: https://app.devin.ai/signup
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.devin.ai/api-reference/overview
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.devin.ai/api-reference/overview
  - type: CLI
    url: https://cli.devin.ai/install.sh
  - type: ReleaseNotes
    url: https://docs.devin.ai/release-notes/overview
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://devin.ai/pricing
  features:
  - name: Autonomous Sessions
    description: Create and manage Devin sessions that plan, code, test, and ship engineering work end to end.
  - name: Session Attribution
    description: Use create_as_user_id to start sessions on behalf of other users and surface them in the user's activity.
  - name: Knowledge Management
    description: Curate persistent knowledge that Devin uses across sessions to ground decisions in your codebase and standards.
  - name: Playbooks
    description: Define reusable playbooks so Devin executes repeatable workflows in a consistent, auditable way.
  - name: Secrets Management
    description: Store and rotate credentials Devin uses to access integrations and infrastructure.
  - name: Enterprise Analytics & Audit Logs
    description: Cross-organization analytics, audit logs, billing, and user management via the Enterprise API.
  - name: Role-Based Access Control
    description: Service user credentials (prefixed cog_) support granular permissions.
  - name: Slack and Teams Integration
    description: Tag Devin in chat to dispatch sessions without leaving the conversation.
  useCases:
  - name: Large-Scale Code Migrations
    description: Migrate legacy COBOL, .NET, Talend, or ETL codebases in parallel across many repos.
  - name: PR Review and Visual QA
    description: Triage pull requests, identify bugs, and perform browser-based visual QA.
  - name: Bug Triage and Incident Response
    description: Investigate incidents, route bug reports, and fix CI failures.
  - name: Documentation Generation
    description: Auto-generate documentation and architecture diagrams for legacy codebases.
  - name: Scheduled Engineering Automation
    description: Run recurring QA, release notes, and feedback-analysis jobs as scheduled Devin runs.
  integrations:
  - name: GitHub
  - name: Linear
  - name: Slack
  - name: Microsoft Teams
  - name: Jira
  - name: Confluence
  - name: Notion
  - name: Datadog
  - name: Sentry
  - name: Stripe
  - name: AWS
  - name: Azure
  - name: Databricks
  - name: Snowflake
  - name: MongoDB
  - name: PostgreSQL
  - name: MCP
  authentication:
  - type: Bearer Token
    description: Service user credentials prefixed with `cog_` passed as Bearer tokens in the Authorization header. Personal
      Access Tokens are on the roadmap.
- aid: cognition:cognition-attachments-api
  name: Cognition AI Attachments API
  description: Operations for file uploads
  humanURL: https://docs.devin.ai
  baseURL: https://api.devin.ai/v3
  tags:
  - Attachments
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cognition-attachments-api-openapi.yml
- aid: cognition:cognition-auditlogs-api
  name: Cognition AI AuditLogs API
  description: Operations for managing audit logs
  humanURL: https://docs.devin.ai
  baseURL: https://api.devin.ai/v3
  tags:
  - AuditLogs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cognition-auditlogs-api-openapi.yml
- aid: cognition:cognition-enterprise-api
  name: Cognition AI Enterprise API
  description: Operations for enterprise-specific features and reporting
  humanURL: https://docs.devin.ai
  baseURL: https://api.devin.ai/v3
  tags:
  - Enterprise
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cognition-enterprise-api-openapi.yml
- aid: cognition:cognition-knowledge-api
  name: Cognition AI Knowledge API
  description: Operations for managing knowledge
  humanURL: https://docs.devin.ai
  baseURL: https://api.devin.ai/v3
  tags:
  - Knowledge
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cognition-knowledge-api-openapi.yml
- aid: cognition:cognition-playbooks-api
  name: Cognition AI Playbooks API
  description: Operations for managing playbooks
  humanURL: https://docs.devin.ai
  baseURL: https://api.devin.ai/v3
  tags:
  - Playbooks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cognition-playbooks-api-openapi.yml
- aid: cognition:cognition-secrets-api
  name: Cognition AI Secrets API
  description: Operations for managing secrets and credentials
  humanURL: https://docs.devin.ai
  baseURL: https://api.devin.ai/v3
  tags:
  - Secrets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cognition-secrets-api-openapi.yml
- aid: cognition:cognition-sessions-api
  name: Cognition AI Sessions API
  description: Operations for creating and managing Devin sessions
  humanURL: https://docs.devin.ai
  baseURL: https://api.devin.ai/v3
  tags:
  - Sessions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cognition-sessions-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/cognition-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/cognition-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/cognition-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cognition-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cognition-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://cognition.ai
- type: ProductSite
  url: https://devin.ai
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.devin.ai
- type: Blog
  url: https://cognition.ai/blog
- type: Research
  url: https://cognition.ai/research
- type: Pricing
  url: https://devin.ai/pricing
- type: Signup
  url: https://app.devin.ai/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://app.devin.ai/login
- type: Careers
  url: https://cognition.ai/careers
- type: Contact
  url: https://cognition.ai/contact
- type: ReleaseNotes
  url: https://docs.devin.ai/release-notes/overview
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cognition-ai-labs
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/cognition
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com