Anthropic vs Cognition

Anthropic — Foundation Models · Private · $965B valuation · 5 of 5 figures sourced  |  Cognition — Application · Private · $26B valuation · 3 of 4 figures sourced

Relationship

Claude Agent SDK and Devin Desktop do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; smaller scale (private).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

3 of 16 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scale

3 of 16 capabilities — Shares agentic coding, code generation and code review.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship AI agent and developer tool.

Ludbee product records

Smaller scale — Cognition: $26B valuation, against Anthropic's $965B valuation.

Ludbee scale figures · valuation, market cap or revenue estimate

Aligned comparison

FieldAnthropicCognition
Valuation$965B$26B Cognition has 37× smaller
Employees2,500250 Cognition has 10× fewer
Founded20212023 2 yrs later
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryFoundation ModelsApplication
Stack layerAI agent, Agent platform, Application, Developer tool, Model APIAI agent, Developer tool
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USASan Francisco, USA match

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Agentic codingCode generationCode review

Not verified for Cognition · 13

Agent orchestrationData analysisDocument extractionEmail assistanceGuardrails and safetyModel inferencePresentation generationKnowledge retrievalSummarizationText generationThreat detection and responseSearch answersWorkflow automation

Recorded for Anthropic. Cognition’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Cognition has no capability Anthropic lacks, among the 3 recorded here.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Anthropic

AI agent

Claude CodeAI agent

Coding agent that works on a codebase from the terminal, an IDE extension and a desktop app.

Claude CoworkAI agent

Agentic task app in which Claude works asynchronously across a user's files and tools toward a stated goal, checked in on from desktop, web or phone.

Claude in ChromeAI agent

Browser extension that lets Claude act inside Chrome on the user's behalf — reading pages, clicking, typing and filling forms to work through multi-step web tasks without approving each step, with the user keeping control of what it may do.

Developer tool

Claude Agent SDKDeveloper tool

Python and TypeScript library that runs the same agent loop, tools and context management that power Claude Code, so developers can embed the loop in their own process rather than calling the API directly.

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.

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.

No counterpart

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

Application

ClaudeApplication

Assistant for chat, document analysis and coding, used in the browser and in desktop and mobile apps.

Claude DesignApplication

Lets users collaborate with Claude to create on-brand visual work (decks, prototypes, wireframes, marketing collateral) with design-system import and Claude Code integration via /design-sync.

Claude ScienceApplication

Desktop application for scientific research that runs analyses, searches scientific databases and traces work from data wrangling through to publication.

Claude SecurityApplication

Application that scans codebases for high-severity vulnerabilities, validates findings by adversarial verification and recommends patches for review, with a companion Claude Code plugin.

Claude for Microsoft 365Application

Claude working inside Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook with context carried across the documents — preserving templates and house styles and showing every edit as tracked changes, highlighted cells or draft emails.

Claude for SlackApplication

Claude tagged as @Claude inside Slack threads and channels: it reads thread context and replies in real time, analyses conversations, pulls data, drafts content, monitors channels, triages alerts and runs standing instructions without leaving Slack.

Agent platform

Claude Managed AgentsAgent platform

Hosted API offering a pre-built configurable agent harness with managed sandboxes and persistent sessions for long-running asynchronous agent tasks, billed separately from token usage.

Model API

Claude APIModel API

Hosted API for the Claude models, billed per token.