Compare Devin and Windsurf on pricing, features, platforms, and ratings — both AI Coding tools, Usage-based (Agentic Computing Units) vs freemium pricing to…
At a Glance
Devin
Windsurf
Primary category
AI Coding
AI Coding
Rating
Not documented
Not documented
Pricing model
Usage-based (Agentic Computing Units)
freemium
Starting price
$20/month
Free plan available; Pro from USD15 per user per month
Free plan
Yes
Yes
Free trial
Not documented
Not documented
Platforms
Web
Mac, Windows
Team collaboration
Not documented
Not documented
AI features
Yes
Yes
Public API
Yes
Not documented
Pricing Compared
Starting price reflects the lowest paid tier, not the full cost for every team size or usage level.
Capable of end-to-end task ownership, from planning through shipped pull request, rather than just code completion.
Adopted in production by large regulated enterprises including major banks and defense branches.
Usage-based ACU pricing lets individuals start for as little as $20/month without a large upfront commitment.
Enterprise self-hosted deployment option supports strict data-control and security requirements.
Cons
ACU-based pricing can be difficult to predict in advance compared to flat per-seat pricing.
Core plan caps concurrent sessions at 10, requiring the pricier Team plan for higher-volume usage.
As a rapidly scaling, richly funded startup, pricing and product terms may continue to change.
Autonomous agent output on complex, ambiguous tasks may still require human review before merging.
Windsurf
Pros
Powerful agentic capabilities that go beyond simple autocomplete
Supports a broad range of languages and works across popular IDEs
Free tier available for individual developers to try the product
Now backed by Cognition's Devin technology for deeper task automation
Established product with a large existing user base from its Codeium roots
Cons
Product direction and branding are in flux following the 2025 Cognition acquisition
Key original founders and researchers left for Google shortly before the acquisition
Users may need to migrate workflows as the product shifts toward Devin Desktop
Per-seat Teams and Enterprise pricing can become costly for larger organizations
Use Cases
Devin
Backlog and bug-fix automation — Engineering teams assign Devin well-scoped bug fixes, dependency upgrades, and boilerplate feature work to clear backlog without engineer time.
Enterprise engineering augmentation — Large regulated enterprises deploy Devin within their own infrastructure to autonomously handle routine engineering tasks under strict security controls.
Test writing and documentation — Teams use Devin to autonomously write test suites and use DeepWiki to generate and maintain codebase documentation.
Windsurf
Agentic feature development — Developers delegate multi-file coding tasks to the Cascade agent to speed up feature implementation.
Team-based AI-assisted coding — Engineering teams use Teams or Enterprise plans for shared AI coding assistance with admin controls.
Multi-agent coding workflows — Developers use the Agent Client Protocol to run several coding agents, including Devin, in one workspace.