SWE-1.6

SWE-1.6

Cognition
SWE-2

SWE-2

Cognition
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About

SWE-1.6 is an engineering–focused AI model developed by Cognition and integrated into the Devin (Windsurf) environment, designed to optimize both raw intelligence and what the company calls “model UX,” or the overall feel and efficiency of interacting with an AI agent. It represents a new iteration in the SWE model family, improving performance on benchmarks such as SWE-Bench Pro by over 10% compared to SWE-1.5 while maintaining similar underlying capabilities. It was trained from scratch to jointly improve reasoning quality and user experience, addressing issues observed in earlier versions such as overthinking simple problems, taking too many steps, looping in repetitive reasoning, and relying excessively on terminal commands instead of specialized tools. SWE-1.6 introduces behavioral improvements such as more frequent parallel tool usage, faster context retrieval, and reduced need for user input, resulting in smoother and more efficient workflows.

About

SWE-2 is Cognition’s advanced coding model designed to improve software engineering performance while reducing the cost of agentic coding workflows. The model is post-trained from Kimi K3 and uses reinforcement learning to optimize multiple reasoning-effort levels within a single training run. SWE-2 is designed to explore codebases more selectively, begin implementation sooner, and complete tasks with fewer redundant reads and reasoning steps than earlier Cognition models. Its capabilities include code generation, debugging, test creation, verification, repository analysis, and complex terminal-based software engineering tasks. The model also emphasizes stronger engineering judgment, end-to-end test coverage, instruction following, and evidence-based verification of user assumptions. SWE-2 is available through Devin Desktop and Devin CLI, with broader rollout planned across Devin Web and Fusion.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Software engineers and developers who use AI agents to write, debug, and manage code efficiently with improved speed, usability, and workflow experience

Audience

Software developers, engineering teams, AI coding agent users, DevOps professionals, and organizations that need capable agentic software engineering with lower execution cost and more efficient reasoning

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

No information available.
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

$20/month
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 0.0 / 5
ease 0.0 / 5
features 0.0 / 5
design 0.0 / 5
support 0.0 / 5

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Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • The biggest thing that stands out is the cost-performance balance. SWE-2 is not just trying to top one benchmark; it is trying to get very close to frontier coding performance at a much lower cost. For developers, that matters a lot. Coding agents can burn through tokens quickly when they are reading files, making edits, running tests, and iterating. A model that performs near the top while being meaningfully cheaper is much easier to use every day. I also like that SWE-2 seems built for real software engineering workflows, not just isolated code snippets. The strong DeepSWE and Terminal-Bench results make it especially interesting for repo-level tasks, debugging, tool use, and longer agent runs.

Cons

  • Benchmarks are useful, but real projects bring messy architecture, flaky tests, undocumented behavior, and weird edge cases.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Cognition
Founded: 2023
United States
cognition.com

Company Information

Cognition
Founded: 2023
United States
cognition.com

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Categories

Categories

Integrations

Devin
Devin Desktop
.NET
C++
CSS
Cerebras
HTML
JSON
JavaScript
MATLAB
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
SQL
Scala
Solidity
Swift
Terraform
XML

Integrations

Devin
Devin Desktop
.NET
C++
CSS
Cerebras
HTML
JSON
JavaScript
MATLAB
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
SQL
Scala
Solidity
Swift
Terraform
XML
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