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Cognition Says Its Annualized Revenue Run Rate Tops $1B
Cognition says it crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate on September 25, 2026. The company’s latest announcement names Devin customers but gives no revenue breakdown or calculation method.
AI.info Team ·
A rapid jump from nearly $900 million
Cognition says it crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate on September 25, a milestone the company ties to demand for Devin, its AI software-development agent. The claim marks a sharp rise from the “almost $900M” run rate Cognition reported on September 8. In May, the company put that figure at $492 million.
“Today, Cognition crossed $1B in annualized revenue run rate,” the company wrote in its announcement, published by The Cognition Team. The post does not identify a specific product-level figure, so the milestone is best described as Cognition’s revenue run rate, not a separately reported $1 billion of Devin revenue.
What the $1 billion figure measures
An annualized run rate projects a current revenue pace across a full year; it is not, by itself, a report that the company collected $1 billion over the past 12 months. Cognition’s September 25 post offers no calculation period or methodology. It also does not provide a breakdown by product, customer, contract type, or geography.
That missing detail limits comparisons with measures such as annual recurring revenue or recognized revenue. The company’s September 8 announcement gave a comparison point—nearly $900 million—but did not explain how it calculated that estimate either. The new post says the company crossed the threshold, without showing the underlying monthly or quarterly figures.
Devin’s customers include aerospace and automotive firms
Cognition says Devin works alongside engineering teams at GE Aerospace, Rivian, Rohlik, and Exa. The company’s earlier September announcement also named NVIDIA, Citi, Mercedes-Benz, and Modal among organizations using Devin. Those references establish the breadth of the customer list Cognition cites, but the $1 billion announcement does not say how much any one customer contributes.
The company says it began in January 2024, and its post describes the milestone as arriving less than two years after Devin became generally available. Cognition frames the figure as evidence of customer adoption, but offers no customer counts, usage totals, or retention data in the announcement. It says only that it asked several customers to describe Devin’s day-to-day role.
The company gives no revenue breakdown
The increase from nearly $900 million to more than $1 billion comes 17 days after Cognition’s previous run-rate disclosure. The two announcements suggest continued growth, though neither provides enough detail to assess how much came from new customers, larger deployments, or changes in billing. The reported figures are company statements, not independently audited results in the posts.
Cognition raised more than $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation in the financing it announced September 8, alongside the earlier nearly $900 million run-rate figure. Its new post focuses on the revenue milestone and customer names rather than updating fundraising details. It gives no calculation method, revenue mix, or customer concentration figures for the $1 billion run rate.