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SWE-2

Cognition's Devin coding model, post-trained from Kimi K3.

Cognition (owns Windsurf)
Levelmodel
Classcode
Parametersnot in the notes
Contextnot in the notes
Released10 Sep 2026
Opennessproprietary
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusactive

Benchmark Results

vendor-reported
vendor-reported
73
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

vendor-reported
50
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

Terminal-Bench 2.1agents and tool use
vendor-reported
92.8
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

Terminal-Bench 4.0agents and tool use
vendor-reported
27.3
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

Where this comes from
Every score names who ran it: vendor-reported, maintainer-run or independent. A rank is shown with the population it was ranked in (gap rule 3).

Lineage

successorfinetune
SWE-1.6 preview to SWE-1.7: successor, medium confidenceSWE-1.7 to SWE-2: successor, medium confidenceKimi K2.6 to Kimi K3: successor, medium confidenceKimi K3 to SWE-2: finetune, medium confidenceSWE-1.6 previewSWE-1.6 previewCognition (owns Windsurf)Kimi K2.6Kimi K2.6Moonshot AI, Apr 2026SWE-1.7SWE-1.7Cognition (owns Windsurf)Kimi K3Kimi K3Moonshot AI, Jul 2026SWE-2SWE-2Cognition (owns Windsurf), Sep 20…
Cognition (owns Windsurf)SWE-1.7 is the parent (successor)medium confidencenotes
Moonshot AIKimi K3 is the parent (finetune)medium confidencepress claim
Where this comes from
Parent and child relations from model cards, Hugging Face base_model fields and the genealogy tables of the research notes. The tree shows two generations each way, 5 models. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.

R&D Topics

Identity

Developer
Cognition (owns Windsurf)
Family
SWE (Devin)
Released
10 Sep 2026 sourcessecondary report
Weights published
–
Record checked
10 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.

Architecture and Size

Architecture
not in the notes
Total parameters
– sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Note
Not published; base model 2.8T (Kimi K3), base context 1M
Context length
not in the notes
Input
text
Output
text
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).

Openness and Access

Openness
proprietary
Licence
Proprietary sources
Access routes
consumer app
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
not in the notes
Footprint
Devin Desktop/CLI only; no API, no weights.
Runtimes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.

Indonesia

Indonesian support
not stated
Regional languages
not in the notes
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Industry Use Cases

No industry use case links this model.

Sources

  1. Cognition SWE-2 : Modèle, Harnais et les chiffres qui se cachent derrière orcarouter.ai https://www.orcarouter.ai/fr/blog/swe-2

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "SWE-2", https://aurion.semai.id/models/cognition-swe-2/, records of October 2026.