Windsurf (now Devin Desktop)

What Windsurf (now Devin Desktop) does

Windsurf is a desktop code editor with an AI agent and Tab completions. Cognition renamed it Devin Desktop on 2026-06-02; windsurf.com now redirects to devin.ai/desktop, and the launch post says plans, pricing and extensions stayed the same. It runs on macOS, Windows and Linux and can import VS Code and Cursor settings.

Windsurf's default agent is now Devin Local, a rewrite of the earlier Cascade agent that Cognition describes as up to 30% more token efficient, with subagents. An Agent Command Center shows agents on a Kanban board, other agents such as Codex, Claude Agent and OpenCode can run inside it over the Agent Client Protocol, and work can be handed off to Devin's cloud agents.

Windsurf also exists as plugins for JetBrains IDEs, VS Code, Visual Studio, Vim, Neovim and Jupyter, so teams can keep their editor. It offers Cognition's own SWE models alongside models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI and open model makers, billed against daily and weekly quotas.

Who Windsurf (now Devin Desktop) is for

• Developers who want a desktop AI editor with unlimited Tab completions, even on the free plan
• Teams that want to move work from a local agent to Devin's cloud agents in one product
• JetBrains, Visual Studio or Vim users who want the same AI through a plugin
• People who want to run several agents, including third-party ones, from one editor

Who should pick something else

• Anyone who needs published usage numbers: quotas are daily and weekly, but the amounts are not on the pricing page
• People following older Windsurf guides: names, folders and the default agent changed in 2026
• Developers who want an open source editor; Zed is GPL-3.0

Windsurf (now Devin Desktop): one strength, one limit

Strength. Windsurf's Free plan includes unlimited Tab completions and inline edits, and the paid Pro plan adds Devin Cloud access in the same subscription.

Limit. Windsurf's quotas are daily and weekly but their sizes are not published, and the 2026 rename means docs, folders and agents now carry both Windsurf and Devin names.

What Windsurf (now Devin Desktop) costs

Free plan with a light agent quota and unlimited Tab completions; paid plans raise the daily and weekly quotas and add Devin Cloud.

Current prices: devin.ai ↗. We do not list prices: vendors change them often, so check the maker's own page before you buy.

Windsurf (now Devin Desktop) with agent skills and MCP servers

Skills. Windsurf (Devin Desktop) supports Agent Skills natively since Windsurf v1.13.6 (2026-01-13). It reads workspace skills from .devin/skills (preferred), .windsurf/skills (legacy) and .agents/skills, and global skills from ~/.config/devin/skills, ~/.codeium/windsurf/skills and ~/.agents/skills; .claude/skills loads only if Claude Code config reading is turned on. The open skills CLI 1.7.0 installs into .windsurf/skills.

MCP. Windsurf's default agent, Devin Local, adds MCP servers with devin mcp add <name> -- <command> for a local server or devin mcp add <name> <URL> for a remote one; -s project writes .devin/mcp_config.json and -s user writes ~/.config/devin/mcp_config.json, under the mcpServers key. The legacy Cascade agent used the panel's ... menu, Open MCP config file.

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Alternatives to Windsurf (now Devin Desktop)

• Cursor: Cursor is an AI code editor by Anysphere that pairs a desktop editor with an agent, a CLI and cloud agents, using models from several vendors plus its own Composer models.
• Devin: Devin is a cloud coding agent by Cognition that works in its own virtual machines, takes tasks from Slack, GitHub, Linear or Jira, and also ships as a CLI and the Devin Desktop editor.
• Google Antigravity: Google Antigravity is an agentic development platform by Google that runs coding agents in a desktop command center, a standalone IDE, a CLI called agy and extensions for other editors.
• Zed: Zed is an open source code editor by Zed Industries, written in Rust, with a built-in AI agent, edit predictions, external agents over ACP and real-time collaboration.
• GitHub Copilot: GitHub Copilot is an AI coding assistant by GitHub that works in VS Code, JetBrains and other editors, in a CLI, and as a cloud agent that opens pull requests on GitHub.