Cognition caps Teams plan at 200 users, keeps $40 seat add-on price
The Teams plan's member limit changed from unlimited team members to a hard cap of up to 200 users.
Cognition’s pricing page · Change Detected
WHY IT MATTERS
Watch for Cognition to introduce an explicit Enterprise tier for orgs over 200 users, and whether the $40 seat price holds as Devin usage scales — capping headcount without raising the per-seat rate points to segmentation by size rather than a near-term price increase.
BY THE NUMBERS
- First seat/capacity-type pricing change tracked for Cognition
- 5 pricing changes in 90 days since tracking began Jul 2026 (~18-day cadence)
- $40/mo add-on seat price left unchanged
- 290 seat-pricing changes across 195 companies index-wide in last 180 days
THEIR RATIONALE
Cognition has moved fast since tracking began in July — five changes in 90 days, roughly one every 18 days — but every prior change swapped which coding model powers Devin (most recently SpaceXAI on Sep 17 and the SWE-2 default switch on Sep 14). This is its first change to touch seat mechanics rather than model selection, suggesting the model-swap cycle has stabilized enough that Cognition is now turning to how teams are billed.
THE SIGNAL
Holding the seat price steady while capping team size is a segmentation move, not a repricing — it draws a line beyond which growing teams have to have an Enterprise conversation rather than just adding $40 seats indefinitely. Seat-pricing changes are a modest but steady slice of the index (5.1% of changes in the last six months), and this is the first time Cognition has touched the pattern at all.
IN CONTEXT
This is Cognition'\''s first change to touch seat mechanics rather than its coding models — its five prior moves since tracking began in July, including swapping in SpaceXAI and the SWE-2 default-model switch, were all about which model powers Devin, not how teams are billed. Capping Teams at 200 users while holding the $40/month add-on seat price steady reads as a segmentation move — pushing larger orgs toward a custom Enterprise conversation rather than raising the per-seat price outright. Seat-pricing changes are a modest slice of the index (5.1% of changes in the last six months, dominated by high-frequency movers like HubSpot), so this looks more like a capacity guardrail than a broad repricing.