Cognition vs Freshworks

Cognition — Application · Private · $26B valuation · 3 of 4 figures sourced  |  Freshworks — Application · Public · $3.4B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced

Relationship

Devin Desktop and Freddy AI Copilot for Developers do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; smaller scale (public).

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

3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scale

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 and developer tool.

Ludbee product records

Smaller scale — Freshworks: $3.4B market cap, against Cognition's $26B valuation.

Ludbee scale figures · valuation, market cap or revenue estimate

Aligned comparison

FieldCognitionFreshworks
Size$26B valuation$3.4B mkt cap different basis
Employees2505,300 Freshworks has 21× more
Founded20232010 13 yrs earlier
StatusPrivatePublic
CategoryApplicationApplication match
Stack layerAI agent, Developer toolAI agent, Agent platform, Application, Developer tool, Platform
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USASan Mateo, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Agentic codingCode generationCode review

Not verified for Cognition · 9

Agent orchestrationCustomer supportData analysisEmail assistanceKnowledge retrievalSummarizationText generationTranslationWorkflow automation

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

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

Products, side by side

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

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.

Freshworks

AI agent

Freddy AI AgentAI agent

A no-code autonomous AI agent that resolves customer and employee queries across email, webchat, WhatsApp and social channels in 60+ languages and takes real-time backend actions such as refunds, order updates and booking changes.

Developer tool

Freddy AI Copilot for DevelopersDeveloper tool

A Visual Studio Code extension that generates Freshworks app code from natural language, converts Figma designs or images into HTML and CSS, performs AI-assisted migrations to newer platform versions, and explains, refactors and security-checks existing code.

No counterpart

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

Application

Freddy AI CopilotApplication

An AI assistant for human support agents that drafts and rephrases replies, summarizes conversations, translates in 60+ languages, surfaces resolutions from historical tickets, and flags sentiment for prioritization.

Freddy AI InsightsApplication

An AI analytics product for support and service leaders that detects anomalies in service metrics, raises proactive alerts, runs built-in root cause analysis, and answers questions about performance through a conversational interface.

Agent platform

Freddy AI Agent StudioAgent platform

A no-code studio for building, deploying, governing and improving custom AI agents that run against Freshservice data, connecting to the CMDB, service catalog and knowledge sources and deploying to the portal, Microsoft Teams and Slack in 40+ languages.

Platform

Freddy AIPlatform

The umbrella AI platform embedded across the Freshworks suites, under which Freshworks ships and separately meters its named products - Freddy AI Agent, Freddy AI Copilot, Freddy AI Insights and Freddy AI Agent Studio.