Windsurf Alternatives in 2026: Where to Go Now That It's Devin Desktop

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windsurf.com and Devin’s models page checked Oct 21, 2026; Devin plans checked Oct 20, 2026. Every other price carries its own check date in the table and is linked under Sources. This page has no affiliate links (how we work).

Type windsurf.com into a browser today and you land on devin.ai/desktop: the site returns an HTTP 308 redirect, checked Oct 21, 2026. Windsurf is Devin Desktop now (Windsurf is now Devin Desktop has the full story), and Devin’s pricing page lists only Devin plans: Free, Pro $20, Max $200, Teams from $80 and Enterprise (Devin pricing, checked Oct 20, 2026). We didn’t find a Windsurf-branded plan for sale on it. That’s what the page lists, not a statement from Devin.

If you liked Windsurf and didn’t ask for a new name, a new quota system and a new menu, here are eight places to go, with prices and billing units dated. We haven’t tested these tools head to head, so this is prices, plans and what each vendor says, not a quality ranking.

TL;DR: the best Windsurf alternative for each situation

• Cheapest paid: Cursor Plus at $8 (Grok models only), or Zed Pro at $10.
• Free: Antigravity, which Google says is “Available at no charge”, or Cline, open source with your own API keys.
• A standalone AI editor, like Windsurf was: Cursor or Kiro. Or keep VS Code and add Codex’s IDE extension or Claude Code’s VS Code extension.
• Terminal agent: Claude Code with Claude Pro ($20), or OpenAI Codex with ChatGPT Plus ($20).
• Team: Copilot Business at $19 a seat, or Codex via ChatGPT Business at $20 a user billed annually.
• The whole field: AI coding tools compared.

What Windsurf costs now

Devin Desktop’s plans (Devin pricing and billing docs, checked Oct 20, 2026):

• Free, $0: “Light quota”, unlimited Tab completions. “Free tier users only have access to SWE-1.6” (models docs, checked Oct 21, 2026).
• Pro, $20 a month: daily and weekly quota covering Devin sessions, Devin CLI and Devin Desktop; “Full model availability”; extra usage at API pricing.
• Max, $200 a month: a “significantly larger weekly usage quota (with no daily cap)”.
• Teams, $80 a month minimum: $40 per full seat, free flex seats (no Devin Desktop access), up to 200 users.
• Legacy Windsurf Pro $15 and Teams $30 a seat are kept “indefinitely” for existing holders (quota docs, checked Oct 14, 2026).

Quotas refresh daily and weekly, on a calendar basis. On-demand credits “Roll over month-to-month. Purchased credits never expire.” Plan detail lives in Devin pricing, and the history in the Devin Desktop price tracker.

Windsurf alternatives compared

All USD per month for one person unless stated.

Tool	Free tier	Paid from	Billing unit	Source
Devin Desktop (baseline)	Light quota, SWE-1.6 only	Pro $20	Daily + weekly quota	devin.ai (Oct 20)
Cursor	Limited	Plus $8 (Grok only)	Weekly multiple of Plus	cursor.com (Oct 15)
GitHub Copilot	2,000 completions + unsized AI credits	Pro $10	AI credits, $0.01 each	github.com (Oct 15)
Claude Code	No Claude Code on Free	Pro $20 ($17 annual)	5-hour + weekly limits	claude.com (Oct 19)
OpenAI Codex	Limited, GPT-6 Luna	Go $8; Plus $20	5-hour estimates (Plus)	OpenAI (Oct 19)
Kiro	50 credits	Pro $20 (1,000 credits)	Credits, $0.04 add-on	kiro.dev (Oct 19)
Antigravity	Basic weekly limits	Google AI Pro $19.99	5-hour + weekly meters	antigravity.google (Oct 20)
Zed	Yes, your own keys	Pro $10	$5 tokens, then API +10%	zed.dev (Oct 15)
Cline	Free, open source	Pay for inference	Your API usage	cline.bot (Oct 19)

Dates are when each official page was last checked, all in 2026. For the full field, see AI coding tools compared.

The alternatives

Cursor

The closest like-for-like: an AI editor with its own allowance. Free $0, Plus $8 (“Only Grok models”), Premium $30 (4x Plus), Super $100 (15x), Ultra $200 (50x) and Teams from $30 a user. The allowance “refreshes weekly”, and third-party models like Claude and GPT are billed at API list price on Premium and up. Since Oct 12, 2026, Cursor is sold as part of The X Subscription (Cursor pricing, checked Oct 15, 2026).

If you used Windsurf for Claude, read the API-list-price line twice. The head-to-head is in Cursor vs Windsurf, and Cursor’s own exits are in Cursor alternatives.

GitHub Copilot

The cheap all-rounder. Free includes 2,000 completions a month plus an AI-credit allowance GitHub doesn’t size (billing docs, checked Oct 23, 2026); Pro is $10, Pro+ $39 and Max $100 (Copilot plans, checked Oct 15, 2026). Usage is metered in AI credits at $0.01 each, and “All plans include Copilot CLI and the Copilot app”. Business is $19 and Enterprise $39 per granted seat (GitHub docs, checked Oct 20, 2026). Claude Sonnet 5.5 is among the models on Pro (supported models, checked Oct 20, 2026).

Claude Code

Claude in your terminal, plus an official VS Code extension. It’s included with Claude Pro at $20, or $17 a month billed annually ($200 up front), and with Max 5x ($100) and Ultra, formerly Max 20x ($200). The Free plan has no Claude Code. Limits are a 5-hour session window plus a weekly limit, shared with Claude chat (Claude pricing, checked Oct 19, 2026; limits help, checked Oct 21, 2026). Team Standard is $25 a seat, or $20 annual, with a 2-seat minimum.

OpenAI Codex

Codex rides on ChatGPT plans: Free $0, Go $8, Plus $20, Pro $100 / $200 / $500, Business $25 a user or $20 annual for 2+ users (Codex pricing, checked Oct 19, 2026). Plus gets Codex on the web, in the CLI, in the IDE extension and on iOS. One detail for Windsurf holdouts: OpenAI’s Codex IDE docs still list “Windsurf” among supported editors (Codex IDE docs, checked Oct 21, 2026). Our Codex pricing post has the limits.

Kiro

AWS’s AI IDE, priced in credits: Free $0 (50 credits), Pro $20 (1,000), Pro+ $40 (2,000), Pro Max $100 (5,000) and Power $200 (10,000), per user. Add-on credits are $0.04 each, and plan credits don’t roll over (Kiro pricing, checked Oct 19–20, 2026). On paid plans, Claude models draw from the same credits (Kiro models, checked Oct 20, 2026). More in Kiro vs Cursor.

Antigravity

Google’s agent IDE, app and CLI, “Available on macOS, Windows, Linux, and Googlebook” and “Available at no charge” (Antigravity, checked Oct 21, 2026). Free has “Basic weekly rate limits”, with no number published. More limits come with Google AI Pro ($19.99) or Ultra ($99.99 or $199.99) (Antigravity pricing, checked Oct 20, 2026; Google AI plans, checked Oct 20, 2026).

Read the footnote before you move in. On Free and Google AI Plus, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-OSS-120b “Will be removed on November 2, 2026”, leaving Gemini 3.8 Flash (Antigravity models, checked Oct 21, 2026). Google doesn’t say Antigravity IDE is a VS Code fork. Full comparison: Antigravity vs Cursor.

A free tier with Claude in it is exactly what tempts Windsurf refugees, and Google has already scheduled the Claude models’ exit for November 2. Moving house is hard enough without the new landlord announcing the furniture leaves in twelve days.

Zed

Zed sells its own editor. Personal is $0 with your own keys, Pro is $10 with $5 of tokens included, then API list price plus 10%, and Business is $30 a seat (Zed pricing, checked Oct 15, 2026). Antigravity also ships an extension for Zed, in preview.

Cline

The open-source route. Free for individuals, no subscription: you pay only for inference, at cost or with your own keys. Enterprise seat price isn’t published (Cline pricing, checked Oct 19, 2026). Good if your real complaint about Windsurf was paying someone else’s markup.

Staying put: when Devin Desktop is still right

You hold a legacy Windsurf plan. Pro at $15 and Teams at $30 a seat are kept “indefinitely” for existing holders (quota docs, checked Oct 14, 2026). That’s $5 under Devin Pro today, and cancelling means shopping at today’s prices.

You want several model families in one place. Devin Pro lists “Full model availability”, and Devin’s models page includes SWE-2, Claude and GPT (models docs, checked Oct 21, 2026).

You pay for ChatGPT. An eligible ChatGPT Go, Plus or Pro plan can pay for GPT usage in Devin “so it doesn’t count against your Devin allowance” (billing docs, checked Oct 20, 2026).

Just don’t plan around free SWE-2 long term. Devin’s models docs say “SWE-2 is free for self-serve plans in Devin Desktop and Devin CLI through November 30, 2026; it does not apply to Devin cloud sessions.” List pricing ($3.00 / $15.00 / $0.30 cache per 1M) applies afterward (checked Oct 28, 2026).

Still on the free Windsurf/Devin Desktop tier? Is Windsurf free? lists what $0 includes after the rename.

FAQ

Is Windsurf still available? The editor lives on as Devin Desktop, and windsurf.com redirects to devin.ai/desktop as of Oct 21, 2026.

What replaced Windsurf? Devin Desktop, sold on Devin’s Free, Pro ($20), Max ($200), Teams and Enterprise plans.

What’s the best free Windsurf alternative? Antigravity is “Available at no charge” with basic weekly limits, and Cline is free and open source if you bring your own API keys.

Is Cursor better than Windsurf? Neither is published as better; Cursor starts cheaper at $8 but that plan is Grok-only, and our Cursor vs Windsurf post compares them in full.

Can I keep my old Windsurf price? Yes, Devin’s docs say legacy Windsurf Pro at $15 and Teams at $30 a seat are kept “indefinitely” for existing holders.

Sources

1. windsurf.com redirect (HTTP 308 to https://devin.ai/desktop): https://windsurf.com/ (verified 2026-10-21)
2. Devin pricing: https://devin.ai/pricing (verified 2026-10-20)
3. Devin self-serve billing docs: https://docs.devin.ai/admin/billing/self-serve.md (verified 2026-10-20)
4. Devin models docs (Free = SWE-1.6, SWE-2 wording): https://docs.devin.ai/desktop/models (verified 2026-10-21)
5. Devin quota docs (legacy Windsurf Pro $15 / Teams $30): https://docs.devin.ai/desktop/accounts/quota (verified 2026-10-14)
6. Cursor pricing: https://cursor.com/pricing (verified 2026-10-15)
7. GitHub Copilot plans: https://github.com/features/copilot/plans (verified 2026-10-15)
8. GitHub Copilot plans docs (Business, Enterprise seats): https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/get-started/plans (verified 2026-10-20)
9. GitHub Copilot supported models: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/ai-models/supported-models (verified 2026-10-20)
10. Claude pricing: https://claude.com/pricing (verified 2026-10-19)
11. Claude usage limits help: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12429409-extra-usage-for-paid-claude-plans (verified 2026-10-21)
12. OpenAI Codex pricing: https://developers.openai.com/codex/pricing (verified 2026-10-19)
13. OpenAI Codex IDE docs: https://developers.openai.com/codex/ide (verified 2026-10-21)
14. Kiro pricing and models: https://kiro.dev/pricing/ (verified 2026-10-19 and 2026-10-20), https://kiro.dev/docs/models/ (verified 2026-10-20)
15. Antigravity home, pricing and models: https://antigravity.google/ and https://antigravity.google/docs/models (verified 2026-10-21); https://antigravity.google/pricing (verified 2026-10-20)
16. Google AI plans: https://gemini.google/subscriptions/ (verified 2026-10-20)
17. Zed pricing: https://zed.dev/pricing (verified 2026-10-15)
18. Cline pricing: https://cline.bot/pricing (verified 2026-10-19)

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• Is Windsurf Free? What the Free Plan Includes Now That It's Devin Desktop
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