First things first: Windsurf is not called Windsurf any more
If you came here looking for Windsurf, this is what you need before anything else: on 2 June 2026, Cognition renamed Windsurf to Devin Desktop through an over-the-air update. Nothing to migrate, nothing to do - the editor updated itself and changed name.
And this is worth saying plainly, because it causes confusion: it is the same editor. Same plans, same pricing, same settings, same extensions, same keybindings, same MCP connections. It is not a new product and it is not a forced migration.
The background is that Cognition acquired Windsurf in 2025, and Cognition is the company behind Devin, the autonomous coding agent. For a year, two brands covered two halves of the same workflow. The rename merges them.
What actually changed
Beyond the label, three real things.
Cascade is gone: it is now Devin Local. The built-in agent was rewritten from scratch in Rust. Cognition says it is roughly 30% more token-efficient than Cascade and can spawn subagents to work in parallel. That figure is theirs, not something we measured.
The Agent Command Center moves front and centre. Spaces, a Kanban view and multi-agent management stop being a side panel and become the main screen. It is a change of assumption: the editor no longer assumes you are working on one task, it assumes you have three running.
ACP (Agent Client Protocol) ships with it. It is an open editor-agent standard that lets third-party agents run inside the editor as first-class citizens. In practice it means you are not married to Devin Local inside Devin Desktop.
Plans and pricing
Here is the year’s other important change, and it predates the rename. On 19 March 2026 the credit system was retired and replaced with daily and weekly quotas. In that move, Pro went from $15 to $20 and a $200 Max plan appeared.
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Limited daily quota, on-demand balance for usage beyond it |
| Pro | $20/mo | Daily and weekly quota, SWE-1.5, cloud sessions, pay-as-you-go credits |
| Max | $200/mo | Everything in Pro with a much larger weekly quota and no daily cap |
| Teams | see below | Centralised billing for teams |
| Enterprise | Custom | - |
Two honest notes on that table:
- Tab autocomplete is unlimited on every plan, free included. It is the part you use most and it does not consume quota.
- We are not giving a Teams figure: the sources we checked contradict each other between $40 per user and an $80/month minimum. If that plan matters to you, check Cognition’s self-serve billing docs before subscribing.
The shared quota is the thing to understand
This is the detail most people miss and the one that causes the most grief.
Your plan’s quota is not the editor’s alone. It is shared between Devin cloud sessions, the Devin CLI and Devin Desktop. Which means: fire off a couple of heavy tasks at cloud Devin in the morning and you may find the editor’s agent running on a leash in the afternoon.
It is internally consistent - one product with three faces - but it changes how you budget. The $20 of Pro is not “$20 of editor”: it is $20 spread across everything you do with Devin.
Against Cursor
They are the two reference AI editors, so the comparison is unavoidable.
| Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) | Cursor | |
|---|---|---|
| Paid entry | $20/mo | $20/mo |
| Free plan | Yes, with a daily quota | Yes (Hobby) |
| In-house model | SWE-1.5 | No, uses third-party models |
| Cloud agent | Yes, Devin, on a shared quota | Yes, background agents |
| Next tier up | $200 (Max) | $60 (Pro+) before $200 |
| Strong at | Several tasks in parallel | Autocomplete and multi-file editing |
The practical difference: Cursor is still better at writing alongside you, and its Tab is the market reference. Devin Desktop is better when you delegate: its bet is that you have several agents working while you review.
The pricing ladder matters too. On Cursor, if $20 runs short, there is $60 before you reach $200. Here the next individual step is $200 outright.
What we did not test ourselves
For transparency: this review is built on Cognition’s documentation, their rename announcement and public pricing sources - not on extended hands-on testing like the work we did for Vidu or Verdent. The performance figure we quote (Devin Local’s 30% efficiency gain) is a vendor claim and we label it as one.
Verdict
The rename is scarier than it deserves to be: it broke nothing, and the editor you liked is still there. What genuinely changed is the product’s bet. It no longer competes to be the best place to write code, but the best place to supervise code that agents write.
If that matches how you work, Pro at $20 is well spent, and unlimited Tab on the free plan makes trying it cost nothing. If what you want is to write code yourself with an excellent copilot beside you, Cursor still wins that fight.
And before you subscribe, work out your quota counting cloud Devin usage too. That is the number that surprises people at the end of the month.
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