Windsurf isn’t called Windsurf anymore
Every top result for “Cursor vs Windsurf” was written in 2025, before both products changed hands:
- Windsurf is now Devin Desktop. Cognition renamed the editor in June 2026.
windsurf.comnow redirects to devin.ai/desktop, and Windsurf’s pricing page redirects to Devin’s pricing. You get the editor through Devin’s plans. - Cursor is now owned by SpaceX. The acquisition closed on August 14, 2026. Cursor is sold through The X Subscription alongside Grok and X Premium.
The question is still the same, which AI editor to use, but the answer depends on the new plans more than on the old feature lists.
The key difference: what your $20–$30 buys
Devin Desktop (pricing):
- Pro, $20/month: frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic (Claude), Google (Gemini) and SpaceXAI, plus leading open-source models, within an increased quota.
- Unlimited SWE-2, Cognition’s own coding model, on Pro.
- Extra usage at API pricing. Access to Devin’s cloud agents.
Cursor (pricing):
- Plus, $8/month: Cursor’s own models only (Grok 4.7, 4.6, 4.5 and Composer 2.5).
- Premium, $30/month: 4x Plus usage. Claude, GPT and Gemini are available at API list price, from prepaid credit.
So for the same money, Devin Desktop includes third-party frontier models while Cursor includes its own. If you rely on Claude or GPT, that’s the main difference.
Pricing in practice
| Plan | Cursor | Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Limited agent and chat requests | Light agent quota, limited models, unlimited inline edits and Tab completions |
| $8 | Plus: Cursor’s own models ($80/year) | — |
| $20 | — | Pro: frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, SpaceXAI; unlimited SWE-2; cloud agents |
| $30 | Premium: 4x Plus usage; third-party models at API list price ($300/year) | — |
| $100 | Super: 15x Plus usage | — |
| $200 | Ultra: 50x Plus usage | Max: significantly higher quotas |
| Teams | $30, $100 or $200 per seat | $80/month team base + $40/month per full developer seat, up to 200 users |
Prices are from the official Cursor and Devin pricing pages, checked October 22, 2026.
Features side by side
| Cursor | Devin Desktop | |
|---|---|---|
| Base | Fork of VS Code | Built on VS Code |
| Completions | Tab completions | Unlimited Tab completions, including on the free plan |
| Built-in agent | Cursor Agent | Devin Local |
| Other agents in the editor | Through extensions, e.g. the Claude Code and Codex extensions | Built in through ACP: Codex, Claude’s agent, OpenCode and others, managed from the Agent Command Center |
| Cloud agents | Premium and up | Devin Cloud, Pro and up |
| Code review | Bugbot, Premium and up | Diff review in the editor; Devin Review |
| Included models | Grok 4.7, 4.6, 4.5; Composer 2.5 | Frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, SpaceXAI; SWE-2 |
| Owner | SpaceX | Cognition |
Who should pick which
Choose Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) if:
- you want Claude, GPT or Gemini included in a $20 plan
- you want to run several agents, including Codex or Claude’s agent, side by side from one command center
- you’d use Devin’s cloud agents for longer tasks
Choose Cursor if:
- Grok and Composer are good enough and you want the cheapest paid plan ($8)
- you already pay for The X Subscription for Grok or X Premium
- you want Bugbot for AI review of your pull requests
Hands-on test
We haven’t run a hands-on test of this pair yet. This comparison is based on each vendor’s documentation and pricing pages, linked on the Cursor and Devin Desktop pages. When we add a test, this page will name the task, the tool and model versions, and the date it was run.
