Windsurf

0:27 Windsurf is now Devin Desktop: Cognition, which bought the Windsurf editor in Jul 2025, renamed it on Jun 2, 2026, and windsurf.com redirects to devin.ai/desktop. Existing users got the change as an ordinary update, with their plan, price, settings and extensions unchanged. As of Nov 6, 2026 it has a free plan, Pro at $20 a month and Max at $200, and its own coding model is SWE-2.

It suits developers who want one editor that manages several agents at once, local and in Cognition's cloud, including other companies' agents. Pick Cursor for the most established agent-first editor, GitHub Copilot for a $10 assistant inside your current editor and GitHub, or Claude Code or Codex for a terminal agent. See Best AI Coding Agent; Cognition's cloud agent has its own page, Devin.

Quick facts

Plans and prices

Source: Devin pricing, read Nov 6, 2026. Cognition says legacy Windsurf Enterprise plans carry on unchanged.

What changed when Windsurf became Devin Desktop

1:07 Cognition's Jun 2, 2026 post made an Agent Command Center (Spaces and a Kanban view of running agents) the main screen, with the editor still there. Devin Local replaced Cascade, Windsurf's agent, as the local agent: Cognition rewrote it in Rust and says it is up to 30% more token efficient and supports subagents. Cascade stayed available until Jul 1, 2026. Devin Desktop also speaks the open Agent Client Protocol, so Codex, Claude's agent, OpenCode and other compatible agents run in the same view.

Features

0:50 Local and cloud sessions. Start a task on your machine or in Devin Cloud and move it between the two with the same context. In Cognition's Apr 17, 2026 video, a plan made locally was pasted into a new cloud session and handed to Devin, which later opened the pull request.

Fusion. A lead frontier model plans while a cheaper "sidekick" model does the work; the product page shows Claude Fable 5.1 leading SWE-2.

Devin Review. Built-in review of the agent's diffs; Cognition announced Devin Review 2.0 on Nov 5, 2026.

3:56 Tab and Supercomplete. Completions that predict your next edit, unlimited even on the free plan.

2:14 DeepWiki and Codemaps. Command+Shift+click on a function, class or variable explains what it does and how it fits the codebase, and one click sends the explanation to the agent; Codemaps answers a question such as how authentication works with a clickable map of the code, which can be shared by link (Cognition's Jun 5, 2026 tour).

Integrations. Slack, Microsoft Teams, Linear, Notion, Atlassian, Datadog, Sentry, Figma, Vercel and Stripe.

History

• Jul 2025: OpenAI's $3 billion offer for Windsurf expired; Google hired CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen and research leaders in a $2.4 billion deal; days later, on Jul 14, Cognition agreed to buy the rest, its product and remaining staff. Cognition then said Windsurf had $82 million in annual recurring revenue and over 350 enterprise customers (TechCrunch, Jul 14, 2025).
• Apr 2026: Windsurf 2.0 added an agent command center with Spaces and handing sessions to Devin in the cloud (Cognition, Apr 17, 2026).
• Jun 2, 2026: Windsurf renamed Devin Desktop; Devin Local replaced Cascade.
• Jul 1, 2026: Cascade retired.
• Sep 29, 2026: Sign in with ChatGPT and GPT-6.1 Sol arrived in Devin (Cognition blog).
• Oct 13, 2026: Gemini 4 Argon added.

Windsurf vs the alternatives

• Cursor: the closest rival, an editor built around agents with its own Composer and Grok models; it costs $8 to $200 a month and is owned by SpaceX.
• GitHub Copilot: cheaper ($10 a month) and inside the editor and GitHub you already use.
• Claude Code: Anthropic's agent, included in Claude Pro at $20 a month.
• Codex: OpenAI's agent, included in ChatGPT Free.
• Google Antigravity and Kiro: Google's and Amazon's agent-first editors.

Frequently asked questions

What happened to Windsurf? Cognition, which bought Windsurf in Jul 2025, renamed the editor Devin Desktop on Jun 2, 2026. It is the same editor with an agent command center added, and windsurf.com redirects to devin.ai.

Is Windsurf free? Yes. Devin Desktop, formerly Windsurf, has a free plan with a light agent quota and unlimited Tab completions, as of Nov 6, 2026.

How much is Windsurf Pro? Pro costs $20 a month as of Nov 6, 2026 and includes frontier models, free use of SWE-2 and Devin Cloud; Max costs $200.

Who owns Windsurf? Cognition, the maker of the Devin agent, since Jul 2025. Google hired Windsurf's CEO and co-founder in a separate $2.4 billion deal that month.

What is SWE-2? Cognition's own coding model, which its pricing page calls its latest; Pro users get it free.

Sources

• Pricing, Cognition, read Nov 6, 2026
• Devin Desktop, Cognition, read Nov 6, 2026
• Windsurf is now Devin Desktop, Cognition, Jun 2, 2026
• Blog, Cognition, read Nov 6, 2026
• Windsurf 2.0 is Here: Agent Command Center + Devin Integration, Cognition, Apr 17, 2026 (video)
• Devin Desktop Full Tour: One Place to Manage Every Coding Agent, Cognition, Jun 5, 2026 (video)
• Cognition, maker of the AI coding agent Devin, acquires Windsurf, TechCrunch, Jul 14, 2025