Devin's Teams plan adds a permanent free SWE-2 mode and drops paid Devin Desktop seats

Cognition changed the Devin Teams plan on 12 November. The headline is a Free mode powered by SWE-2, its own coding model: every Teams user gets two concurrent Free sessions, and you can pay for more. Cognition also says free SWE-2 in Devin Desktop and the CLI is now “a permanent part” of its Teams, Pro and Max plans.

What changes for teams

• Devin Desktop for everyone. Teams no longer pay for Devin Desktop seats; everyone on the team can use it.
• Free mode. Two concurrent SWE-2 sessions per user, at no charge, with paid capacity on top.
• Single sign-on. Okta, Microsoft Entra ID or any SAML or OIDC provider. Once SSO is connected, admins can turn off email login.
• Cost controls. A usage limit per user, with up to three tiers. Users who hit a limit send a request that waits for an admin or is approved automatically up to a cap.
• A standard BAA. Teams admins can request Cognition’s standard Business Associate Agreement from Settings, for handling protected health information. Cognition says it is offered “as-is” and it cannot accept redlines.

Two changes cut the other way. Cognition is retiring quota seats on the Teams plan in 30 days, and Teams is now capped at 100 seats, down from 200.

The pricing page, read on 13 November, lists Teams at $80 a month for the plan plus $40 a month per full developer seat, Pro at $20 a month and Max at $200 a month. “Free use of SWE-2” appears under Pro.

What SWE-2 is

Cognition introduced SWE-2 on 10 September as its “most advanced coding model yet”. In the Teams post it says SWE-2 “performs close to the frontier models at a fraction of their cost”. That is Cognition’s claim, and it publishes no benchmark in the post. SWE-2 is separate from SWE-2 Flash, the lower-cost, faster model it announced on 4 November.

Cognition does not say in either page what SWE-2 is built on, and we have not tested it.

Cognition has been tuning how Devin is billed for a while; it already scores sessions on output per dollar to set usage limits.

Why this matters

A free in-house model inside a paid agent gives teams a cheap lane for routine tasks while keeping frontier models for hard ones, and it puts price pressure on rival coding agents that bill every session at frontier rates. For buyers, the fine print matters as much: the 100-seat cap and the end of quota seats in 30 days may change what you pay at renewal.