All Hands AI vs Cognition

All Hands AI — Application · Private · $23.8M raised · 2 of 2 figures sourced  |  Cognition — Application · Private · $26B valuation · 3 of 4 figures sourced

Relationship

All Hands AI names Cognition as a competitor in AI-assisted coding.

3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeSourced competitorCode with an AI assistant

3 of 3 capabilities — Shares agentic coding, code generation and code review.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship AI agent.

Ludbee product records

Sourced competitor — “Devin, built by Cognition, does the autonomous-engineer job well, but its boundaries are what send buyers looking.”

openhands.dev · checked 2026-09-19

Code with an AI assistant — Rivals on this job — Write, edit and maintain a codebase with an AI coding assistant or agent.

Ludbee needs vocabulary · the scope on the sourced edge

Aligned comparison

FieldAll Hands AICognition
Size$23.8M raised$26B valuation different basis
Employees—250
Founded20242023 1 yrs earlier
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryApplicationApplication match
Stack layerAI agentAI agent, Developer tool
HeadquartersCambridge, USASan Francisco, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Agentic codingCode generationCode review

Identical capability tags — the difference is in execution, not scope.

Products, side by side

Hand-checked pairing

All Hands AI

AI agent

OpenHandsAI agent

Open-source, model-agnostic AI coding agent that plans, writes, tests and ships code from a task description, run locally, via a managed SaaS cloud tier, or self-hosted in an enterprise's own VPC.

Cognition

AI agent

DevinAI agent

Autonomous coding agent that plans, writes, tests and ships code from a task description.

Devin CLIAI agent

Local command-line coding agent that runs in the developer's terminal against local files, with Devin Cloud integration; bundled with Devin Desktop and presented by Cognition as a separate tool from the cloud-based Devin.

No counterpart

Cognition sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for All Hands AI yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Developer tool

Devin DesktopDeveloper tool

Desktop coding environment running Devin's agents locally, including custom background agents that carry a team's context between sessions.

FusionDeveloper tool

Multi-agent coding architecture pairing a frontier 'lead' model (planning/review) with a cost-efficient 'sidekick' (execution), up to 39% more efficient than other coding harnesses on major benchmarks; available now in Devin Desktop and Devin CLI.

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