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	Devin A	Adobe Firefly A	Perplexity S	Gemini A
Tagline	Cognition Labs' autonomous coding engineer.	Commercially safe image gen, deeply integrated with Photoshop.	AI search done right. Cited answers, not chat theater.	Google's answer. Best integrated with Workspace + free for a lot.
Category	Agents	Image	Research	Chatbots
Pricing	$500/mo	Free + included with Creative Cloud	Free + $20/mo Pro	Free + $20/mo Advanced (bundled with 2TB Drive)
Best for	Engineering teams offloading tickets. Ops/platform work.	Anyone in Creative Cloud. Brands that need copyright clarity.	Replacing Google for any question where you want a cited answer in seconds.	Anyone already on Google, research tasks, summarizing long documents.
Strengths	Works like an engineer — takes Slack tasks, opens PRs Handles multi-hour engineering work Reports back with what it did	Trained on licensed content — commercially safe Generative Fill in Photoshop is incredible Native to Adobe ecosystem	Sources every claim Fast, current answers Pro Search runs multi-step research Spaces for persistent context	Native Google Workspace integration Very long context (1M+) Deep Research feature Free tier is generous
Weaknesses	Expensive Best for well-scoped tasks Not for solo hobbyists	Aesthetic ceiling below Midjourney Tied to Adobe subscription	Not a general chatbot Answers can be shallow on complex topics	Writing quality trails Claude Over-refusals on edge content UI is cluttered
Kai's verdict	A-tier for the right use case. Not for solo devs. If you manage engineers, try one license.	S-tier inside Photoshop (Generative Fill). B-tier standalone.	S-tier for search. I use it before Google now. If you're still Googling everything, try this for a week.	A-tier. The Deep Research feature is genuinely useful. Don't sleep on it if you're already paying Google.
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