Cognition vs Yandex

Cognition — Application · Private · $26B valuation · 3 of 4 figures sourced  |  Yandex — Application · Public · 2 of 2 figures sourced

Relationship

Devin Desktop and SourceCraft Code Assistant do comparable work on agentic coding and code generation; both also serve buyers who need to code with an AI assistant; Yandex's scale not recorded.

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 type

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

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship developer tool.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldCognitionYandex
Size$26B valuationnot disclosed
Employees25036,991 Yandex has 148× more
Founded20231997 26 yrs earlier
StatusPrivatePublic
CategoryApplicationApplication match
Stack layerAI agent, Developer toolAPI service, Application, Developer tool, Platform
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USAKaliningrad, Russia

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Agentic codingCode generationCode review

Not verified for Cognition · 15

Agent orchestrationCustomer supportData analysisDocument extractionImage generationModel hostingModel inferenceModel trainingKnowledge retrievalSpeech to textText generationText to speechTranslationVoice agentSearch answers

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

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

Products, side by side

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

Cognition

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.

Yandex

Developer tool

SourceCraft Code AssistantDeveloper tool

Yandex's AI coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, offering completion, chat, code review and an agent mode that carries out development tasks from natural-language instructions.

No counterpart

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

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.

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

Application

Alice AIApplication

Yandex's consumer AI assistant and chat product, which answers questions with web search, analyses uploaded files, and generates text and images from Yandex's own generative models.

Yandex SpeechSenseApplication

Speech-analytics service that transcribes and analyses voice and text customer conversations to surface topics, sentiment and service-quality metrics.

API service

Yandex SpeechKitAPI service

Speech recognition and speech synthesis API built on the technology behind the Alice assistant, used for voice assistants, call-centre automation and service-quality monitoring.

Yandex TranslateAPI service

Neural machine translation API supporting more than 100 languages, sold as a Yandex Cloud service.

Yandex Vision OCRAPI service

Computer-vision API that recognises and extracts text, tables, handwriting, document fields and licence plates from images and PDFs in 48 languages.

Platform

Yandex Cloud AI StudioPlatform

Yandex Cloud platform that serves Yandex's generative models (YandexGPT, YandexART, embeddings, classifiers) over an API, with fine-tuning, a model gallery and agent/assistant tooling.

Yandex DataSpherePlatform

End-to-end managed ML development environment with notebooks, distributed training jobs and one-click model deployment on elastically scaled CPU/GPU resources.