What is Windsurf (now Devin Desktop)?

Windsurf is an AI code editor that its maker, Cognition, has renamed Devin Desktop. The full IDE remains, with unlimited Tab completions, and Devin Local has replaced Cascade as the primary local agent. The app now opens on an agent command center where you run and review several coding agents, locally or in Devin Cloud. Existing Windsurf users get the change as an update, with plans, extensions and settings carried over. A free plan exists; Pro costs $20 a month.

Windsurf is now Devin Desktop

If you are looking for Windsurf, this is it under a new name. The Windsurf site says: "Devin Desktop is the new name for Windsurf." Cognition, the company behind Devin, is building on the Windsurf IDE and adding an agent command center with Spaces, a Kanban view and multi-agent management, while the full IDE remains available.

The update arrives over the air. According to the FAQ, your plan, pricing, extensions, settings and in-progress work carry over, and only the name and branding change. The Windsurf JetBrains plugin is in maintenance mode: Cognition says newer JetBrains IDE releases can break it and recommends switching to Devin over ACP.

What you do with it

For everyday coding it still works as an AI editor: Tab completions with Supercomplete suggest your next edit. The local agent is now Devin Local, which Cognition describes as the successor to Cascade, rewritten in Rust with the same capabilities and settings, up to 30% more token-efficient and with subagent support. Cognition offered the legacy Cascade agent for incremental migration only through July 1. The newer layer is delegation: you start sessions for separate tasks, follow their status from running to waiting for review to done, and open the resulting pull requests from one place.

Sessions can run on your machine or in Devin Cloud, and the site says you can move between them with the same context. Devin can also split a large job, such as a billing migration, into subagents that each open their own pull requests. These workflows are described by the vendor; AppFor.ai has not run them.

Agents and models

Built-in Devin agents run locally (Devin Local) or in Devin Cloud. Through the Agent Client Protocol you can also add external agents such as Codex, Claude Agent and OpenCode on Free, Pro, Max and Teams plans; on Enterprise they are off by default until admins have them enabled. External ACP agents need their own setup and authentication, usually a /login command in the agent. Cognition's documentation says Devin Desktop's privacy policy and legal terms do not apply to them and billing is directly between you and the third-party provider, so your Devin plan does not cover them.

Pro and higher plans include frontier models from OpenAI, Claude, Gemini and SpaceXAI, plus open-source models and Cognition's own SWE-2, which Pro users can use for free.

Plans and usage limits

The free plan gives a light agent quota and limited models but unlimited Tab completions and inline edits. Pro at $20 a month adds larger quotas, the full model list and Devin Cloud. Max at $200 a month raises quotas significantly. Teams costs $80 a month plus $40 per full developer seat for up to 200 users, with shared billing and an admin dashboard; Enterprise adds SSO, a VPC deployment option and dedicated support.

Paid plans include a usage allowance that refreshes daily and weekly. Cost per message depends on the model, the size of the task and the reasoning needed. If you exceed the allowance you can buy extra usage at API pricing. To stretch it, the FAQ suggests shorter prompts and smaller models for routine work. These allowances cover Devin's own agents and models; external ACP agents are billed separately by their providers.

A first workflow to try

Install the free plan and give Devin Local one real task in a repository you know, then run the same task as a cloud session if you are on Pro. Compare how much review each pull request needs and how fast the daily quota drains. If your team already uses Codex or Claude Agent, you can connect it over ACP, but set up its login and check its own pricing and terms first.

What stands out

Full IDE with unlimited Tab completions and inline edits
Devin Local, the Rust-rewritten successor to Cascade, as the local agent
Agent command center with sessions, board view and multi-agent management
Optional external agents such as Codex, Claude Agent and OpenCode via the Agent Client Protocol
Fast Context codebase search and built-in Devin Review for diffs

Before you choose

The product name is changing from Windsurf to Devin Desktop, so docs and menus may mix both names.
Cascade has been replaced by Devin Local; legacy Cascade access was transitional.
External ACP agents are billed by their providers under their own terms.
Free and Pro quotas are not stated as fixed numbers; overage is billed at API pricing.
The Windsurf JetBrains plugin is in maintenance mode.

Plans & pricing

Current pricing on windsurf.com

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Sources & further reading

Based on the official documentation below. Features and access can change; check the provider before making a decision.

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