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

About SWE-2

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.

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Starting Price:
$20/month
Free Version:
Free Version available.

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Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
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Company Information

Cognition
Founded: 2023
United States
cognition.com

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SWE-2 Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What kinds of users and organization types does SWE-2 work with?
SWE-2 works with these users and organization types: Mid Size Business, Small Business, Enterprise, Freelance, Nonprofit, Government, and Startup.
Q: What languages does SWE-2 support in their product?
SWE-2 supports these languages: English.
Q: What kind of support options does SWE-2 offer?
SWE-2 offers support via online.
Q: What other applications or services does SWE-2 integrate with?
SWE-2 integrates with: C, C++, C#, Cerebras, Devin Desktop, CSS, Dart, Devin, Go, HTML, JavaScript, JSON, Kotlin, Kubernetes, Lua, MATLAB, .NET, Objective-C, PHP, PowerShell, Python, R, Ruby, Rust, and Scala and more.
Q: What type of training does SWE-2 provide?
SWE-2 provides training in the form of documentation.
Q: How much does SWE-2 cost?
Pricing for SWE-2 starts at $20/month.

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  • A SWE-2 User
    Software Engineer
    Used the software for: Less than 6 months
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 500 - 999
    Design 5 out of 5 stars
    Ease 5 out of 5 stars
    Features 5 out of 5 stars
    Pricing 5 out of 5 stars
    Probability You Would Recommend? 9 out of 10

    "Really good for coding"

    5 out of 5 stars Posted 2026-09-11

    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.

    Overall: Overall, SWE-2 feels like a serious upgrade for developers using AI coding agents. It may not be the absolute top model on every metric, but the mix of coding strength, agent performance, and lower cost makes it one of the most practical models to watch right now.

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