# Cognition — SWE-1.6

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## Model

- Name: SWE-1.6
- Company: Cognition (cognition.com)
- Launch post: Introducing SWE 1.6: Improving Model UX — https://forck.live/items/7673-introducing-swe-1-6-improving-model-ux
- Announced: 2026-04-07
- Launch source: https://cognition.com/blog/swe-1-6
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- Released (per models.dev): 2026-04-07
- Listed (per OpenRouter): not stated
- Open weights: not stated
- Posts about it: 2
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- Also written: SWE 1.6
- Price: free tier for the next 3 months — from https://forck.live/items/7673-introducing-swe-1-6-improving-model-ux

## Posts about it

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### Cognition — Introducing SWE 1.6: Improving Model UX

- Company: Cognition (cognition.com)
- Announced: 2026-04-07
- Category: model-update
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://cognition.com/blog/swe-1-6
- Record: https://forck.live/items/7673-introducing-swe-1-6-improving-model-ux
- Subject: Devin / SWE

Cognition released SWE-1.6, a new model for software engineering agents, optimized for intelligence and model UX. It is available in Windsurf with a free tier for the next 3 months and offers speeds up to 950 tok/s for paying users. The model improves on behavioral issues like overthinking and looping compared to the preview version.

### Cognition — An Early Preview of SWE-1.6 and Research Update

- Company: Cognition (cognition.com)
- Announced: 2026-03-01
- Category: model-update
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://cognition.com/blog/swe-1-6-preview
- Record: https://forck.live/items/7676-an-early-preview-of-swe-1-6-and-research-update
- Subject: Devin / SWE

Cognition shared an early preview of its SWE-1.6 model, which achieves an 11% higher score than SWE-1.5 on SWE-Bench Pro. The company is rolling out early access to a small subset of users to collect feedback for tuning model behavior. The training stack has been improved to run 6x faster than three months ago.

## Who reported on it

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