Devin (formerly Windsurf)
FreemiumAI-native IDE with a built-in agent command center.
Published 29 May 2026 · Last updated 30 September 2026
Scores
Popularity3/5
Significant interest from the AI editor wave; notable market position alongside Cursor.
Learning Curve2/5
Flows-based AI features are intuitive; close enough to VS Code for rapid onboarding.
Flexibility4/5
Flows and Cascade AI are configurable; standard VS Code extensions are supported.
Performance4/5
Electron-based like VS Code; Cascade AI responses are fast; comparable overall performance.
Portability3/5
Flows and Cascade features are Windsurf-specific; VS Code extensions are partly compatible.
About Devin (formerly Windsurf)
Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) is an AI-native IDE from Cognition, built on a VS Code foundation. It launched as Windsurf from Codeium in late 2024, Cognition acquired the product in July 2025, and it was renamed Devin Desktop in June 2026. It runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux, and it can import VS Code and Cursor settings.
The default local agent is Devin Local, which replaced Cascade and shares its agent harness with the Devin CLI. It plans multi-step changes, edits files across a codebase, runs terminal commands, and works through errors in a single conversation. Smaller questions and edits go through the chat panel and inline suggestions.
The Agent Command Center lists every session in one place, covering both local agents on your machine and Devin cloud agents that run remotely. Spaces group related sessions, pull requests, and files so that context carries between tasks. Support for the Agent Client Protocol lets third-party agents run in the same interface, and MCP servers, memories, and rules extend the agent.
Access is freemium. The free plan has a light agent quota with unlimited tab completions and inline edits, paid individual plans raise the quota and open up models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and SpaceXAI along with cloud agents, and team and enterprise plans add admin controls and SSO.
Key Features
- Devin Local agent for multi-file edits, terminal commands, and debugging
- Agent Command Center for managing local and cloud agent sessions
- Spaces that share context across sessions and pull requests
- Agent Client Protocol support for third-party agents
- MCP servers, memories, and rules to extend the agent
- VS Code foundation with settings import from VS Code and Cursor
- Unlimited tab completions and inline edits on the free plan
- Runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux
Pros
- Free plan with unlimited tab completions and inline edits
- Agent Command Center manages local and cloud agents from one view
- VS Code base keeps familiar keybindings, settings, and extensions
- Paid plans offer models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and SpaceXAI
- Imports VS Code and Cursor settings to ease switching
Cons
- Agent usage is quota-limited, and heavy use needs the $200 Max plan
- Cascade was retired, so existing Windsurf workflows had to move to Devin Local
- Free plan restricts model access and gives only a light agent quota
- Cloud agents require a paid plan
- Smaller community than Cursor or VS Code
Devin (formerly Windsurf) Pricing
Freemium- · Light quota to code with agents
- · Unlimited tab completions and inline edits
- · Restricted model access
- · Higher quotas than Free
- · Models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and SpaceXAI
- · Devin cloud agents
- · $80 monthly base plus $40 per full developer seat
- · Centralized billing and admin analytics
- · Priority support
- · Everything in Pro
- · Significantly higher quotas
- · Custom pricing
- · SAML/OIDC SSO and admin controls
- · Optional VPC deployment
Tech Stacks with Devin (formerly Windsurf)
Devin Dev Stack
DeveloperDevin Desktop as the editor and agent manager, with Devin Cloud for work that keeps going without your machine, Claude as the default model and OpenAI, Gemini, or Grok in the same picker, plus your pick of GitHub or GitLab for version control.
Development
LLM
Tools Related to Devin (formerly Windsurf)
Integrates with Devin (formerly Windsurf)(3)
Devin can use OpenAI models as selectable backends for its agents on paid plans, so teams already standardised on OpenAI models can keep them while using Devin's IDE and agent interface.
Devin offers Anthropic's Claude models on paid plans as a backend for its local and cloud agents, with Devin providing the IDE and agent management around the model.
Devin supports Google Gemini models as an LLM backend option for coding assistance within the IDE.
Alternatives to Devin (formerly Windsurf)(9)
Both AI-first code editors built on VS Code foundations; Devin uses Cognition's Devin Local agent, Cursor uses Claude/GPT models — nearly identical UX and feature sets.
Kiro (Amazon) is a newer AI-native IDE; Devin is more established — same AI IDE category, different backing and maturity.
Trae (ByteDance) and Devin are both AI-native IDEs; Devin uses Cognition's Devin Local agent, Trae is backed by ByteDance.
Devin (formerly Windsurf) is a VS Code-based IDE with a local agent and an Agent Command Center; Antigravity is Google's agent-first desktop app and CLI running parallel agents on Gemini and other models. Both lean agentic; pick by model ecosystem.
VS Code is the base editor; Devin adds agentic AI coding with Devin Local — similar trade-off as VS Code vs Cursor.
Zed prioritizes performance; Devin prioritizes AI assistance — same IDE category, different primary value propositions.
Vendor
Cognition
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Details
- License
- Proprietary
- Maintained
- Yes
- Primary languages
- Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
- Type
- AI IDE
- Open source
- No
- AI features
- Chat, Agent, Inline edit, Autocomplete
- Stars updated
- 2026-03-09