Cognition introduced three Devin enterprise cost controls on Oct. 19: an Efficiency Score for recent usage, Devin Coach for feedback before prompts run and an optional policy that automatically raises some engineers’ usage limits. The company outlined the features in its announcement and product explanation.
How Devin assigns an efficiency grade
Cognition describes the Efficiency Score as a 0–100 rating based on recent Devin sessions. The company says Devin identifies sessions it judges useful, estimates how long the same work would take a human engineer and weighs estimated productive hours per Agent Compute Unit more heavily than productive hours per day. An Agent Compute Unit, or ACU, combines language-model and cloud infrastructure costs in Cognition’s accounting. Cognition says sessions with a pull request count as useful when the pull request was merged; for sessions without a pull request, a classifier judges whether the work made progress. The hours in the score are Cognition’s estimates, not time a human logged doing the same work. Engineers see one of four grades: Healthy, Satisfactory, Needs Improvement or Unknown, the last of which indicates insufficient data, according to the company’s breakdown.
According to Cognition, Devin Coach gives feedback before a prompt runs, flagging issues such as vague requests, an expensive mode for a simple task or unrelated tasks grouped together. Cognition says Coach does not silently rewrite prompts. The company says admins can allow suggestions engineers may ignore, require confirmation for flagged new-session prompts or turn checks off, according to the product explanation.
Where automatic increases stop
According to Cognition, admins enable the approval policy in Usage policies and set the maximum amount Devin may approve automatically. With that policy enabled, Cognition says Devin increases limits for engineers graded Healthy or Satisfactory as they approach their caps, up to the admin-set ceiling. The company says organization-wide limits still apply. If an engineer requests more than the ceiling allows, Cognition says Devin grants usage up to the ceiling and sends the remainder to an admin, according to the company’s explanation.
Cognition says engineers graded Needs Improvement or Unknown can still request more usage, but an admin reviews those requests. The company says Devin never denies a request automatically, and admins reviewing requests see the engineer’s reason, efficiency, model mix and consumption. In its , Cognition described auto-approvals as available to all Devin Enterprise customers.
