Cognition Upgrades the Devin Teams Plan: No More Paid Devin Desktop Seats, Two Free Concurrent SWE-2 Sessions per User, Plus SSO, Tiered Usage Limits and a Standard BAA; Seat Cap Drops to 100

Background and the problem

Competition among AI coding agents is moving from raw model capability to price and administration. Small teams using Devin ran into a few recurring issues: the desktop app needed separately paid seats, cheap tasks still ran on expensive models, admins could not cap spend per person, and healthcare startups could not touch patient data without a BAA. Cognition's Teams plan update targets those points directly.

Architecture and how it works

The main change is turning Cognition's own SWE-2 model into a free tier. In Free mode every user gets two concurrent sessions on SWE-2 and can pay for more; free SWE-2 in Devin Desktop and the CLI also becomes a permanent part of the Teams, Pro and Max plans. Cognition says SWE-2 starts faster by focusing on the parts of the codebase that matter for the task. On the admin side, SSO works with Okta, Microsoft Entra ID or any SAML or OIDC identity provider, and email login can be turned off once SSO is connected. Usage limits can be set per user or per group with up to three tiers; when someone needs more they send a request, which admins either approve by hand or auto-approve up to a set maximum. Devin Coach suggests changes to a prompt before it is sent, such as a lighter mode for a small task.

Benchmarks and measured results

Cognition published no benchmark data for SWE-2 this time, only the claim that it performs close to frontier models at a fraction of their cost; this is a vendor claim with no third-party verification yet. The quantifiable parts are the plan terms: two concurrent free sessions per user, up to three usage tiers, a Teams seat cap cut from 200 to 100, and up to $65k in startup program credits.

Getting started for developers

Existing Teams customers can open Devin Desktop to the whole team, use free SWE-2 sessions for routine small changes and switch to paid models for complex work. Admins should connect SSO first, then set usage tiers per group and decide whether overage requests are auto-approved. Teams handling protected health information can request the BAA in product settings. Two terms tighten: quota seats are retired in 30 days, and teams above 100 seats should talk to Cognition about Enterprise ahead of time.