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Devin Desktop

AI-first editor and multi-agent command center, formerly Windsurf

Formerly Windsurf

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Our verdict

#6 of 7 in AI code editors · For supervising several coding agents

Pros

  • Excellent supervision of several isolated agent sessions
  • Flexible permissions and independent change review
  • Free unlimited inline edits and Tab completions

Cons

  • Agent management gets in the way of ordinary solo editing
  • The current local agent has a shorter track record than its predecessor
  • Paid users must opt out to stop training and enable zero retention with providers

Skip if: Developers who want the code editor to open before the agent-management board, and teams that need training disabled without an administrator opt-out.

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Rankings and alternatives

AI code editors scores

Evaluated Nov 12, 2026 Evidence ↓
  • AI coding quality · counts double 3

    3/5 means: Useful everyday assistance with less consistency, maturity or supporting evidence than the leaders

    Capable multi-model agent work, local and cloud execution and independent quick review make it useful for delegated tasks. The current Devin Local engine has less settled evidence than the leading interactive editors, and its older Windsurf reputation should not be transferred automatically.

  • Editor quality 4

    4/5 means: A strong complete editor with either excellent native performance or deep language support, and a manageable limitation

    The complete Windsurf editor, language servers, extensions, keybindings and workflows remain available. It is a competent VS Code-derived environment, although its agent-management board is now the primary surface rather than a supplement to direct editing.

  • Integrated AI workflow · counts double 3

    3/5 means: Good completion and agent features with noticeable friction between editing modes or surfaces

    Strong movement among local agents, cloud work and a shared review surface, but the default Kanban-style command center changes the editor's center of gravity. Solo developers who mainly want to type and make focused edits face extra interface overhead.

  • Review and change control 4

    4/5 means: Strong review and recovery with a specific limitation in the available controls or their consistency

    Granular permissions, worktrees, independent quick review, local and cloud sessions and support for compatible external agents provide strong supervision and recovery. Direct editing is less central than in the leading interactive workflows.

  • Compatibility with existing workflows 4

    4/5 means: Broad compatibility and migration with a recognizable ecosystem or platform limitation

    Cross-platform with a familiar Windsurf/VS Code-derived environment and automatic migration of existing settings. ACP support broadens agent compatibility, while the older JetBrains plugin is in maintenance mode and is not the recommended current route.

  • Model and agent choice 4

    4/5 means: Broad provider and API-key choice, with external agents or named local-model support

    Multiple hosted model families, use of an existing ChatGPT plan and ACP-compatible external agents provide meaningful flexibility. Local inference and unrestricted custom-provider routes are not the central offering.

  • Learning resources and support 3

    3/5 means: Adequate documentation and community help, with important AI or editor questions requiring specialist knowledge

    Current documentation covers local sessions, permissions, Quick Review and administration, and the retained Windsurf editor carries over familiar skills. The agent-first interface and changed local-agent behavior reduce how much older guidance helps new users.

  • Privacy and team controls 3

    3/5 means: Useful no-training options or administration, with important defaults, retention or identity limitations

    Team and enterprise plans include SSO, cost controls, SCIM and role-based administration. Data may be used for training by default, and paid users must opt out to stop training and enable zero retention with model providers.

Pricing

  • Free Free Light agent quota; unlimited inline edits and Tab completions
  • Pro $20.00 /month Increased agent quotas and cloud agents; extra usage billed at API prices

From the vendor’s pricing page, checked Nov 12, 2026. That page is authoritative.

Evidence and sources

AI code editors scores

AI coding quality 4 quotes
  • “Devin Desktop is the new name for Windsurf. It's the same IDE, same editor, and has the same features, but unified under the Devin brand. For a quick tour, watch Introducing Devin Desktop. The Agent Command Center (multi-agent management) is now front and center. The classic Windsurf experience (editor, extensions, keybindings, workflows, LSPs) is still there and fully accessible. Nothing is getting removed.”
    docs.devin.ai/desktop/devin-desktop-faq · checked
  • “ProPOPULAR $20per month Select plan Everything in Free, plus: Increased quotas, including access to frontier models from OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and SpaceXAI, plus leading open source models Full model availability Free use of SWE-2 Access to cloud agents (Devin Cloud) Purchase extra usage at API pricing Use your ChatGPT plan”
    devin.ai/pricing · checked
  • “Quick Review runs an agentic code review on your local changes. When you work with agent-generated code, Quick Review gives an independent review. A separate agent analyzes the changes for correctness, style, and potential issues.”
    docs.devin.ai/desktop/quick-review · checked
  • “What's worse: it's a new agent with new quirks, and whatever you'd learned about Cascade's habits resets. Don't assume it ran your tests after a refactor; check. The behavior is still settling.”
    danilchenko.dev/posts/devin-desktop-review · checked
Editor quality 2 quotes
  • “Devin Desktop is the new name for Windsurf. It's the same IDE, same editor, and has the same features, but unified under the Devin brand. For a quick tour, watch Introducing Devin Desktop. The Agent Command Center (multi-agent management) is now front and center. The classic Windsurf experience (editor, extensions, keybindings, workflows, LSPs) is still there and fully accessible. Nothing is getting removed.”
    docs.devin.ai/desktop/devin-desktop-faq · checked
  • “The editor is still there. You can switch to it with a single click, and it's the same VS Code fork that Windsurf always was. But the Kanban-first default reframes the product: this is an agent management hub that happens to contain an IDE.”
    Maksim Danilchenko, Engineering lead and independent reviewer · danilchenko.dev/posts/devin-desktop-review · checked
Integrated AI workflow 2 quotes
  • “Devin Desktop is the new name for Windsurf. It's the same IDE, same editor, and has the same features, but unified under the Devin brand. For a quick tour, watch Introducing Devin Desktop. The Agent Command Center (multi-agent management) is now front and center. The classic Windsurf experience (editor, extensions, keybindings, workflows, LSPs) is still there and fully accessible. Nothing is getting removed.”
    docs.devin.ai/desktop/devin-desktop-faq · checked
  • “The editor is still there. You can switch to it with a single click, and it's the same VS Code fork that Windsurf always was. But the Kanban-first default reframes the product: this is an agent management hub that happens to contain an IDE.”
    Maksim Danilchenko, Engineering lead and independent reviewer · danilchenko.dev/posts/devin-desktop-review · checked
Review and change control 5 quotes
  • “With support for the Agent Client Protocol (ACP), we are extending that same idea to agents running in Devin Desktop. Any ACP-compatible agent can run inside Devin Desktop alongside Devin, so teams can use the agents that work best for different parts of the development lifecycle and manage them from the same surface.”
    cognition.com/blog/introducing-devin-desktop · checked
  • “Permissions can be scoped to file reads, file writes, command execution, HTTP fetches, and MCP tools. They can be configured at the project, user, or organization level.”
    docs.devin.ai/desktop/devin-local/permissions · checked
  • “Run a session in a git worktree and merge its changes back into your workspace.”
    docs.devin.ai/desktop/devin-local/overview · checked
  • “Quick Review runs an agentic code review on your local changes. When you work with agent-generated code, Quick Review gives an independent review. A separate agent analyzes the changes for correctness, style, and potential issues.”
    docs.devin.ai/desktop/quick-review · checked
  • “The Devin Local agent can spawn independent subagents to handle subtasks — either in the foreground or background. Subagents share tools and codebase context with the parent agent but operate in their own conversation chain.”
    docs.devin.ai/desktop/devin-local/overview · checked
Compatibility with existing workflows 3 quotes
  • “The desktop application name is changing from Windsurf to Devin (appearing as Devin.app on macOS, Devin.exe on Windows, and Devin / devin on Linux).”
    docs.devin.ai/desktop/devin-desktop-faq · checked
  • “With support for the Agent Client Protocol (ACP), we are extending that same idea to agents running in Devin Desktop. Any ACP-compatible agent can run inside Devin Desktop alongside Devin, so teams can use the agents that work best for different parts of the development lifecycle and manage them from the same surface.”
    cognition.com/blog/introducing-devin-desktop · checked
  • “Devin Desktop is the new name for Windsurf. It's the same IDE, same editor, and has the same features, but unified under the Devin brand. For a quick tour, watch Introducing Devin Desktop. The Agent Command Center (multi-agent management) is now front and center. The classic Windsurf experience (editor, extensions, keybindings, workflows, LSPs) is still there and fully accessible. Nothing is getting removed.”
    docs.devin.ai/desktop/devin-desktop-faq · checked
Model and agent choice 2 quotes
  • “With support for the Agent Client Protocol (ACP), we are extending that same idea to agents running in Devin Desktop. Any ACP-compatible agent can run inside Devin Desktop alongside Devin, so teams can use the agents that work best for different parts of the development lifecycle and manage them from the same surface.”
    cognition.com/blog/introducing-devin-desktop · checked
  • “ProPOPULAR $20per month Select plan Everything in Free, plus: Increased quotas, including access to frontier models from OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and SpaceXAI, plus leading open source models Full model availability Free use of SWE-2 Access to cloud agents (Devin Cloud) Purchase extra usage at API pricing Use your ChatGPT plan”
    devin.ai/pricing · checked
Learning resources and support 6 quotes
  • “Devin Desktop is the new name for Windsurf. It's the same IDE, same editor, and has the same features, but unified under the Devin brand. For a quick tour, watch Introducing Devin Desktop. The Agent Command Center (multi-agent management) is now front and center. The classic Windsurf experience (editor, extensions, keybindings, workflows, LSPs) is still there and fully accessible. Nothing is getting removed.”
    docs.devin.ai/desktop/devin-desktop-faq · checked
  • “Permissions can be scoped to file reads, file writes, command execution, HTTP fetches, and MCP tools. They can be configured at the project, user, or organization level.”
    docs.devin.ai/desktop/devin-local/permissions · checked
  • “Run a session in a git worktree and merge its changes back into your workspace.”
    docs.devin.ai/desktop/devin-local/overview · checked
  • “Quick Review runs an agentic code review on your local changes. When you work with agent-generated code, Quick Review gives an independent review. A separate agent analyzes the changes for correctness, style, and potential issues.”
    docs.devin.ai/desktop/quick-review · checked
  • “The agent-first framing is premature for most users. Opening to a Kanban board instead of a code editor is a bold choice, but for most developers the day is still mostly editing, with agent interaction as the smaller slice. For solo developers, the Command Center is a distraction that takes a click to dismiss. Cognition could've made it opt-in.”
    danilchenko.dev/posts/devin-desktop-review · checked
  • “What's worse: it's a new agent with new quirks, and whatever you'd learned about Cascade's habits resets. Don't assume it ran your tests after a refactor; check. The behavior is still settling.”
    danilchenko.dev/posts/devin-desktop-review · checked
Privacy and team controls 3 quotes
  • “By default, we may use your data for model training purposes to improve and enhance the Services. If you're on a paid plan, you can opt out at any time on the Data Controls settings page. After you opt out, your data will not be used for training and Zero Data Retention will be enabled with our model providers. On the Teams plan, only an administrator can exercise the opt-out.”
    docs.devin.ai/admin/security · checked
  • “Teams $80/month for team plan + $40/mo per full dev seat Select plan Everything in Pro, plus: Up to 100 users Share and collaborate with multiplayer sessions 2 concurrent sessions in Free mode per user SAML/OIDC SSO Cost controls with 3 usage tiers Centralized billing Slack channel support Use your ChatGPT plan”
    devin.ai/pricing · checked
  • “Enterprise Let's talk Get a Demo Built to scale across your organization: Highest priority support Dedicated account management SCIM and role-based access control Centralized enterprise admin controls Dedicated deployment option First class support for every major model provider”
    devin.ai/pricing · checked

Facts

License 1 quote
  • “Cline is Apache 2.0, OpenCode is MIT and the Codex CLI is Apache 2.0. Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot and Devin Desktop are proprietary.”
    encore.dev/articles/best-ai-coding-agents · checked
Runs on 2 quotes
  • “The desktop application name is changing from Windsurf to Devin (appearing as Devin.app on macOS, Devin.exe on Windows, and Devin / devin on Linux).”
    docs.devin.ai/desktop/devin-desktop-faq · checked
  • “With support for the Agent Client Protocol (ACP), we are extending that same idea to agents running in Devin Desktop. Any ACP-compatible agent can run inside Devin Desktop alongside Devin, so teams can use the agents that work best for different parts of the development lifecycle and manage them from the same surface.”
    cognition.com/blog/introducing-devin-desktop · checked

Other quotes

Not cited by a score or fact 5 quotes
  • “Free $0 Download Light quota to code with agents Limited model availability Unlimited inline edits Unlimited Tab completions”
    devin.ai/pricing · checked
  • “Each paid plan comes with a usage allowance that refreshes automatically on a daily and weekly basis. For the majority of users, this quota will be enough to fully cover all agent usage. Cost per message varies based on the model used, the task size and complexity, and the reasoning required.”
    devin.ai/pricing · checked
  • “1M+ UsersTrusted by over a million developers worldwide”
    devin.ai/desktop · checked
  • “4000+ Enterprise CustomersStartups, agencies, and enterprises”
    devin.ai/desktop · checked
  • “Run sessions on your machine or in Devin Cloud, and move between them with the same context”
    devin.ai/desktop · checked

Pricing

devin.ai/pricing · checked