Windsurf (Devin Desktop)
Now Devin Desktop — the most agent-forward IDE with real enterprise compliance; you're betting on Cognition's Devin-first roadmap and living with its churn: two owners, two names and a retired agent inside one year.
PRICING
| Free | Free | light agent quota, limited models |
| Pro | $20/mo | per user |
| Max | $200/mo | significantly higher quotas |
| Teams | $80/mo | plus $40/mo per full dev seat |
| Enterprise | Custom | SSO, dedicated deployment |
windsurf.com/pricing now redirects to Cognition's shared Devin plans page, where Windsurf sits alongside Devin. Plans are quota-based rather than unlimited: extra usage beyond the plan quota is billed at API pricing.
checked 2026-07-25 · vendor pricing page
Element scores
Strengths
The clearest articulation of the agent-fleet IDE: Devin Desktop's Agent Command Center manages local and cloud agents from one surface, Devin Local adds subagents with a claimed ~30% token-efficiency gain, and ACP support runs third-party agents (Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode) in the same editor. Automatic context (Flow awareness, Fast Context, Codemaps, Memories) is the best zero-setup context in any IDE. Model access is frontier and multi-vendor with a free in-house SWE-1.7 tier, the compliance surface (SOC 2, HIPAA, FedRAMP High, ITAR) is unmatched in the category, and 40+ IDE plugins remove the VS-Code-fork adoption barrier.
Honest dings
Churn is the story: Google's licensing deal took the founders (07/2025), Cognition took the rest, the product has been renamed twice (Codeium → Windsurf → Devin Desktop) and the Cascade agent hit end-of-life on 01/07/2026 — anything that named it had to be repointed. The March 2026 pricing rework erased the old $15 price advantage, and the quota meter (shown only as a percentage) makes costs hard to predict. Its autonomous edits need more post-generation review than Cursor's diff-by-diff flow, and the roadmap serves Devin and Cognition first — standalone-editor priorities can lose.
Sources (10) — every claim traceable
Every audit lists the research it rests on — transparency and traceability are the product. Tools evolve: each audit is a snapshot of its audit date, and re-audits supersede older versions (kept below for reference).
- cognition.ai/blog/windsurf — Official acquisition announcement (14/07/2025): Windsurf IP/brand/business, $82M ARR, 350+ enterprise customers, hundreds of thousands of DAU (accessed 2026-07-12)
- windsurf.com/pricing — Official live pricing: Free/Pro $20/Max $200/Teams $80+$40/Enterprise; daily+weekly quota mechanics, SWE 1.7 availability, overage at API pricing (accessed 2026-07-12)
- windsurf.com — Official product page (now 'Devin Desktop'): Agent Command Center, Sessions/Spaces, ACP support, full IDE retained (accessed 2026-07-12)
- devin.ai/blog — Official blog: 'Windsurf is now Devin Desktop' (02/06/2026); Claude Fable 5 and Sonnet 5 availability (07/2026); Kimi K2.7 + GLM 5.2 (24/06/2026); Security in Devin Review (18/06/2026) (accessed 2026-07-12)
- apidog.com/blog/whats-new-in-devin-2026 — Independent rename breakdown (03/06/2026): Devin Local Rust rewrite with subagents replacing Cascade, ~30% token-efficiency claim, ACP, Spaces, SWE-1.6 (accessed 2026-07-12)
- digitalapplied.com/blog/windsurf-becomes-devin-desk… — Independent migration guide: OTA rename 02/06/2026, settings/plans carry over, Cascade EOL 01/07/2026, .devin/ rules format (accessed 2026-07-12)
- stackcapybara.com/tools/windsurf-ai-code-editor — Independent hands-on review (18/06/2026): Cascade vs Composer, free-tier generosity, quota pricing since 03/2026, Codemaps (accessed 2026-07-12)
- techsy.io/en/blog/windsurf-vs-cursor — Independent comparison (27/03/2026): Pro raised $15→$20 in 03/2026, compliance (SOC 2/HIPAA/FedRAMP/ITAR), SWE-1.5 at 950 tok/s, automatic ~200K-token RAG context (accessed 2026-07-12)
- digitalapplied.com/blog/windsurf-2-deep-dive-cascad… — Independent deep dive (09/05/2026): Workflows as markdown recipes, workspace-scoped Memories, MCP competitive-not-best, diff-staging UX (accessed 2026-07-12)
- thursdai.news/companies/cognition — Independent release timeline: SWE-1.6 at 51% SWE-Bench Pro (03/2026), Devin for Terminal CLI (04/2026), Devin Desktop rebrand (06/2026) (accessed 2026-07-12)