Cognition slashes Devin price from $500/mo to $20/mo Core + $2.25/ACU — autonomous coding tier pricing resets

Cognition cut Devin's entry price from $500/month Team to $20/month Core plus $2.25 per Agent Compute Unit. The previous floor was the cleanest moat in autonomous coding agents; the new floor is competitive with Copilot/Cursor's $20 tier. The category just collapsed from premium to mass-market pricing in a single move.

The strategic read is that Cognition is converting Devin's autonomous-engineer positioning from a premium-tier product into a usage-based commodity. ACU pricing scales with usage, which is friendlier to the long-tail developer who runs Devin a few times a week than to the enterprise that was paying $500/seat for unlimited.

The competitive response will define Q3. Cursor's $60B valuation thesis assumed the autonomous-tier was bracketed above the IDE-assistant tier. With Devin at $20, that bracket disappears. Cursor either matches the autonomous experience or accepts that the categories are merging at the same price point.

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