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Prices and features checked against each vendor on September 28, 2026.
Windsurf no longer exists under that name. Cognition, the company behind the Devin coding agent, has renamed the editor Devin Desktop, and the product page's FAQ states plainly that Devin Desktop is the new name for Windsurf. It is still an IDE with tab completions and inline edits, but the pitch is now an Agent Command Center for managing fleets of local and cloud agents from one surface. As of September 2026 the plans are Free, Pro at $20 per month, Max at $200 per month, Teams at $80 per month plus $40 per full developer seat, and a custom Enterprise tier.
The rename is the main trigger. Windsurf started life as Codeium, became Windsurf, and is now Devin Desktop, and each change has shifted the product's center of gravity, this time from an autocomplete-and-chat editor toward multi-agent orchestration with Spaces and a Kanban view. Cognition says updates arrive automatically and that plan, pricing, extensions and settings carry over, but people who chose Windsurf for a lightweight editor experience are reasonably asking whether the roadmap still matches what they bought. Legacy Windsurf Enterprise plans are honored and Windsurf for JetBrains remains available separately, so nothing breaks today, but the direction is clear.
The second reason is the pricing structure. The Free plan carries only a light agent quota with limited model availability, and the gap between Pro at $20 and Max at $200 leaves no middle tier for someone who needs a bit more than Pro. Teams adds an $80 monthly base fee on top of $40 per seat, so a two-person team pays $160 a month, which is more than most competitors charge for two seats.
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Best for: Developers who want the closest like-for-like agentic editor with more pricing tiers.
Cursor is the most direct replacement: a VS Code fork with an agent mode, unlimited tab completions on paid plans, cloud agents, MCP support and the Bugbot code reviewer. It has more rungs on the ladder than Devin Desktop, with a free Hobby tier, Pro at $20 per month, Pro Plus at $60, Ultra at $200, Teams at $40 per user per month with no base fee, and Teams Premium at $120 per user. Usage is split into a Cursor Models pool with generous included usage and an Other Models pool billed at each third-party model's API price, with on-demand billing in arrears once the pools are spent, so watch the usage dashboard if you use frontier models heavily.
Best for: Developers who want to stay in their existing editor and pay the least per month.
GitHub Copilot is an extension for VS Code, JetBrains and Neovim rather than a standalone editor, with chat, code review, a CLI and a cloud coding agent that works from GitHub issues. Copilot Free provides 2,000 completions a month, Pro is $10 per month with a base of 1,000 GitHub AI Credits, Pro+ is $39 per month with 3,900 credits and access to third-party agents, and Max is $100 with 10,000 credits. Business is $19 per seat and Enterprise $39 per seat, with no base fee, so a small team pays far less than Devin Desktop Teams. Inline suggestions are unlimited on paid plans, while agent and chat use draw down the credit allowance.
Best for: Developers who want a mature terminal and IDE coding agent bundled with a chat assistant.
Claude Code runs in the terminal, in VS Code and JetBrains, on the web, on desktop and in Slack, and Anthropic positions it for long-running tasks such as reading issues, writing code, running tests and opening pull requests. It is included with Claude Pro at $20 per month, or $17 on annual billing, and with Max at $100 or $200 per month for five or twenty times the usage. Team seats are $25 per month, or $20 annual, with a $125 premium seat. If what you liked about Windsurf's Cascade agent was delegating whole tasks, Claude Code covers that without tying you to a particular editor.
Best for: Teams that specifically wanted the multi-agent orchestration story and want to compare the alternative implementation.
Factory sells software development agents called Droids across a desktop app, a CLI and an SDK, with cloud and local background agents and an agent-readiness dashboard, which is close to what Devin Desktop's Agent Command Center promises. Pricing is Pro at $20 per month, Plus at $100 with roughly five times the usage limits and Factory-managed cloud computers, and Max at $200 with roughly ten times the limits. Teams is $60 per month base plus $40 per seat for up to 10 seats, so the base fee is $20 lower than Devin Desktop's, and Business and Enterprise are custom priced with SSO, SAML, SCIM and audit logging.
Best for: Developers who want an open-source agent with transparent costs through their own API keys.
Cline is an open-source coding agent for VS Code and the CLI with a client-side architecture, an MCP marketplace and multi-root workspaces. The Open Source tier is free and you either buy inference at cost or bring your own keys from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others, so the only bill is the model provider's. An Enterprise plan is custom priced and adds a JetBrains extension, SSO, role-based access control, centralized billing and controls over which inference providers a team may use. It is a good landing spot for people who are tired of product pivots and want something they can inspect.
Best for: Terminal-first developers who never needed a full IDE in the first place.
Warp is a modern terminal with a built-in coding agent, so the loop is prompts, commands and diffs in the shell next to whatever editor you already use. Free includes the terminal with pay-as-you-go agent usage, Build is $20 per month, or $18 on annual billing, with 1,500 credits described as $20 of agent usage at API rates, and Max is $200 per month with 18,000 credits. Business is $50 per user per month, or $45 annual, with 1,500 credits per seat, team usage metrics and SAML SSO. The tiers line up with Devin Desktop's $20 and $200 price points but with the included usage stated in dollars.
If you want the same kind of product, Cursor Pro at $20 per month is the closest match and has more intermediate tiers. If the rename made you wary of standalone editors, GitHub Copilot Pro at $10 or Claude Pro at $20 with Claude Code included let you keep your current editor. Teams should compare the base-fee structures: Copilot Business at $19 per seat and Cursor Teams at $40 per user have no base fee, whereas Devin Desktop Teams charges $80 per month before the first seat.
