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Axonius vs Cognition

Axonius sells asset intelligence that security and IT teams use to discover what is unknown, fix what is exposed, and prove cyber resilience. Cognition sells Devin, an agent that plans, writes, tests and ships production code on its own, working inside a customer's codebase and the tools its team already uses. CISO Tribune files both under Vulnerability management. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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  • Axonius
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Axonius vs Cognition: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
AxoniusAxonius sells asset intelligence that security and IT teams use to discover what is unknown, fix what is exposed, and prove cyber resilience.axonius.comCognitionCognition sells Devin, an agent that plans, writes, tests and ships production code on its own, working inside a customer's codebase and the tools its team already uses.cognition.com
What it sells
  • SaaS Applications[8]Extends asset intelligence to the application layer.
  • Cyber-Physical Assets[1][3]Passive OT and IoT asset discovery and exposure management.
  • AI Workforce[1][3]Virtual Workers on routine security checks.
  • AI Companion[9]Answers plain-language questions about the environment.
  • Devin[1][2][4][5][6][11][12]Devin plans, writes, tests and ships production code on its own.
  • Devin Security[1][4][5][6][12]A set of Devin features, some of which use cyber-capable models or third-party models restricted by region.
  • Devin Security Swarm[4][5]Devin Security Swarm finds, validates and remediates code vulnerabilities autonomously.
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Headquarters
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Founded
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Ownership and funding
Not stated on its pagesPrivately held[6][13][14]
Named customers
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Recent news
  • November 3, 2026Axonius appointed Thais Lima as chief revenue officer and Lior Mozel as chief technology officer.[15]
  • October 28, 2026Corridor is joining Cognition, with plans to take Devin Security further.[12]
  • September 23, 2026Cognizant and Cognition announced production results from autonomous AI engineering at Odyssey Logistics and a set of joint offerings built on Cognition's Devin.[11]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: listed, seen November 5, 2026[16]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
Who it fits
From its own pages, Axonius sells mainly to security, IT, and GRC teams that need a reconciled view of their assets. Axonius Federal Systems serves U.S federal agencies. Axonius says its healthcare offering is purpose-built for hospitals. Axonius says customers of all sizes use it for SaaS environments, and customers of all kinds and sizes use it to secure software assets. Axonius Cyber-Physical Assets covers OT and IoT environments.Cognition's platform terms offer its services to individuals or entities who register for and use them. For vulnerability remediation, Cognition's pages describe federal agencies as needing to close a backlog that scanners and manual triage were never built to address, and Cognition has a federal team. The region-restricted Devin Security features are available to enterprise customers only, with availability confirmed as part of contracting. For certain services, customers can deploy the data plane in their own cloud service provider account.
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November 3, 2026November 11, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Axonius and Cognition are both filed under Vulnerability management.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Axonius's primary category is Cyber asset inventory (CAASM); Cognition's is Vulnerability management.
  • Axonius is also filed under SaaS security posture and IoT and medical device security.
  • Axonius lists SaaS Applications, Cyber-Physical Assets, AI Workforce and AI Companion. Cognition lists Devin, Devin Security and Devin Security Swarm.
  • Cognition is privately held.

What it sells: Axonius

What SaaS Applications does[8]
Axonius SaaS Applications extends asset intelligence to the application layer, discovering every app in use and correlating it to the devices, identities, and exposures it touches. Teams uncover shadow SaaS, close hygiene gaps, prioritize SaaS-driven risk, and reclaim wasted spend from one place. Axonius discovers SaaS through the integrations and identity sources already in a customer's stack, with no agents, no proxies, and no inline inspection.
What AI Workforce does[1][3]
Axonius offers AI Workforce, which puts Virtual Workers on routine security checks. Axonius describes role-based agents that solve security problems end-to-end, on demand or on a recurring schedule, and flag findings, issue fixes, and offload manual work. Axonius says users decide how much each worker does on its own, from off, to human in the loop, to live.

What it sells: Cognition

What Devin does[1][2][4][5][6][11][12]
Devin plans, writes, tests and ships production code on its own, working inside a customer's codebase and the tools its team already uses. Devin validates that vulnerabilities are exploitable at runtime and ships remediation PRs.
What Devin Security does[1][4][5][6][12]
Cognition applies a regional availability policy to the Devin Security features that use cyber-capable models or third-party models restricted by region. The regional policy does not apply to Devin Security as a whole, and other Devin features are not affected by it. The region-restricted Devin Security features are available to enterprise customers only, and availability is confirmed as part of contracting.
What Devin Security Swarm does[4][5]
Devin Security Swarm is a Cognition offering to find, validate and remediate code vulnerabilities autonomously. Security Swarm is powered by an approach Cognition calls Agentic MapReduce, and Security Swarm reasons across an entire codebase. Devin Security Swarm runs parallel agents that trace data flows, validate what is exploitable at runtime and ship reviewed remediation PRs.

Questions about Axonius and Cognition

What do Axonius and Cognition sell?
Axonius sells SaaS Applications, Cyber-Physical Assets, AI Workforce and AI Companion. Cognition sells Devin, Devin Security and Devin Security Swarm.
Are Axonius and Cognition in the same category?
They share Vulnerability management. Axonius's primary category is Cyber asset inventory (CAASM) and Cognition's is Vulnerability management.
Who owns Axonius and Cognition?
Cognition is privately held.
Who are Axonius and Cognition sold to?
From its own pages, Axonius sells mainly to security, IT, and GRC teams that need a reconciled view of their assets. Cognition's platform terms offer its services to individuals or entities who register for and use them.
What have Axonius and Cognition announced recently?
November 3, 2026: Axonius appointed Thais Lima as chief revenue officer and Lior Mozel as chief technology officer. October 28, 2026: Corridor is joining Cognition, with plans to take Devin Security further.

About Axonius

Axonius sells asset intelligence that security and IT teams use to discover what is unknown, fix what is exposed, and prove cyber resilience. Axonius says every asset is correlated and deduplicated into one verified record, with AI assets inventoried alongside everything else.[2][3][4]

Axonius says security teams are not struggling with a lack of data but cannot trust the data they have. Axonius connects to 1,400+ data sources, from endpoint agents and cloud providers to SaaS apps and identity and access management solutions, and correlates everything into a single, reconciled asset record. Axonius says it continuously reconciles data across sources so the inventory stays accurate as the environment changes. Axonius says its asset data is configured entirely through API-based adapters, with no agents and no scanners required. Axonius says API adapters pull from security, IT, identity, cloud, and SaaS tools, and network collectors bring in IoT and OT and shadow IT devices.[5][6][7]

Axonius offers a system of record for all digital infrastructure, aimed at keeping every asset across every system continuously known, including AI tools. Axonius Software Assets automatically inventories software across all devices, managed or unmanaged. Axonius SaaS Applications extends asset intelligence to the application layer, discovering every app in use and correlating it to the devices, identities, and exposures it touches. Axonius discovers SaaS through the integrations and identity sources already in a customer's stack, with no agents, no proxies, and no inline inspection. Axonius says identity risk spans service accounts, API keys, and AI agents, and that Axonius unifies every identity. Axonius Cyber-Physical Assets extends the Axonius Platform to deliver passive OT and IoT asset discovery, continuous asset inventory, contextual risk intelligence, and exposure management across cyber-physical environments.[3][7][8]

Axonius AI turns a plain-language question into an answer grounded in the live environment and, with approval, acts on it. The Axonius AI Companion is described as a security partner that understands the environment, assets, and business context, and users ask in plain language about their attack surface. Axonius offers AI Workforce, which puts Virtual Workers on routine security checks. Axonius describes role-based agents that solve security problems end-to-end, on demand or on a recurring schedule, and flag findings, issue fixes, and offload manual work. Axonius says Virtual Workers review the environment on a schedule, flag what needs attention, and explain why. Axonius offers an MCP Server that brings asset data to Claude, an IDE, or custom agents. Axonius says it discovers AI assets in an environment, from ungoverned SaaS to non-human identities and rogue software usage, and covers devices, SaaS, cloud, and development pipelines.[1][3][9][10][11]

For exposure management, Axonius says it correlates findings with asset ownership, business criticality, coverage status, network exposure, and attack paths. Axonius says its 1,400+ integrations span 40+ asset types. Axonius says AI recommends the fix, opens a ready-to-work ticket, and can track it to closure. Axonius says its Action Center offers over 600 actions across adapters, such as sending a notification, opening a ticket in an ITSM, or isolating a device. Axonius says it gives cyber incident response teams the asset intelligence needed to identify what is affected, who owns it, and how to fix it. Axonius says its bi-directional adapters push notifications to downstream systems, such as creating ServiceNow or Jira tickets, isolating devices, or updating CMDBs. Axonius says it closes endpoint compliance gaps by surfacing devices missing EDR, vulnerability scanning, and SSO controls. Axonius says it turns a CMDB from a static inventory into a source of truth continuously reconciled with what is in the environment.[5][10][12][13]

Axonius says it helps Security validate and document operational control coverage, while GRC remains responsible for control ownership, framework interpretation, exceptions, and audit decisions.[6]

Axonius Federal Systems helps U.S federal agencies comply with cybersecurity regulations by uncovering every asset. Axonius says its healthcare offering is purpose-built for hospitals, and it unifies security and operations across medical, IoT, OT, and IT assets. Axonius says it discovers and classifies every medical device with over 150 attributes per asset. Axonius for Healthcare integrates with NAC, firewalls, ticketing systems, and CMMS tools. Axonius cites Brooks Running as a customer that gains real-time asset visibility to secure global growth. Bedfordshire Hospitals, an Axonius customer, says it expects greatly reduced risk from its medical devices once risk reduction activities have been applied.[1][3][7][8][10][12][14]

Axonius on the record

Sources

Axonius full record

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  2. [2]Axonius earns 2025 great place to work certificationAxonius · axonius.com · published October 16, 2025 · Tier A
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Cognition full record

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  11. [11]Cognizant and Cognition put autonomous AI engineering into production at Odyssey Logistics, with a 37 percent net cost savingPR Newswire · published September 23, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Blog | CognitionCognition · published October 28, 2026 · Tier A
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  14. [14]Cognition Reviews, Ratings & Features 2026Gartner Peer Insights · undated page, accessed November 12, 2026 · Tier C

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