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Cursor vs Windsurf (Now Devin Desktop): 2026 Prices and Limits
Windsurf is now Devin Desktop. Cursor runs $8 to $200 a month, Devin Desktop $20 to $200. Plans, limits, team prices and who should pick which, dated.
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Prices checked Oct 15, 2026 on Cursor’s pricing page, Devin’s pricing page and Devin’s billing docs. Quota rules checked Oct 14, 2026 in Devin Desktop’s quota docs. All are linked under Sources. This page has no affiliate links (how we work).
If you searched “Cursor vs Windsurf”, you’re not behind. Plenty of people still use the old name. Windsurf is now Devin Desktop, made by Cognition, and the old windsurf.com/pricing page returned a 404 when we checked on Oct 15, 2026. The editor lives on, with a new name, a new pricing model, and a new home at devin.ai.
Cursor has changed a lot too. Since Oct 12, 2026 it’s been sold inside The X Subscription, alongside Grok and X Premium. So this isn’t the comparison you read last year. Here’s what each one costs now, how their limits work, and who should pick which.
We haven’t benchmarked either editor. Everything here comes from each company’s own pricing pages and docs.
TL;DR: Cursor or Devin Desktop?
- Cheapest paid entry: Cursor Plus at $8 a month, but it’s Grok models only. Devin Desktop’s cheapest paid plan is Pro at $20.
- Heaviest use: both top out at $200 a month. Cursor Ultra gives you 50x Plus usage, refreshed weekly. Devin Desktop Max has a weekly quota and no daily cap.
- You want Claude or GPT included: read the limits section first. On Cursor Premium and above, other labs’ models are billed separately at API list prices. On Devin Desktop, a model’s token cost decides how fast you burn your quota.
- Teams: Cursor Teams starts at $30 per user a month. Devin Desktop Teams is a $80 monthly minimum plus $40 per full seat, for up to 200 users.
- Free tier: both have one. Cursor Free has limited agent and chat requests. Devin Desktop Free has a “Light quota”.
Windsurf is now Devin Desktop: what changed for buyers
Short version, because we covered the full story in Windsurf is now Devin Desktop: Cognition renamed Windsurf to Devin Desktop and, in March 2026, swapped prompt credits for daily and weekly quotas. If you were already paying for Windsurf Pro at $15 a month or Teams at $30 a seat, your price is grandfathered indefinitely on the new quota system (quota docs, checked Oct 14, 2026).
Cursor vs Devin Desktop: price table
All USD per month, as listed on each official page on Oct 15, 2026.
| Plan | Cursor | Devin Desktop |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 (light quota) |
| Entry | $8 Plus (Grok only) | $20 Pro |
| Mid | $30 Premium | None listed |
| High | $100 Super | None listed |
| Top | $200 Ultra | $200 Max |
| Teams | $30+ per user | $80 minimum + $40/seat |
| Annual | Not listed | Not listed |
Sources: Cursor pricing and Devin pricing, checked Oct 15, 2026. Cursor Enterprise and Devin Enterprise are custom-priced.
The biggest structural difference is the ladder. Cursor sells five individual rungs between $0 and $200. Devin Desktop sells three: Free, Pro at $20, and Max at $200. If your usage sits between “a bit more than Pro” and “all day, every day”, Cursor gives you more in-between steps. Devin Desktop’s answer is extra usage billed at API rates (more below).
For each tool’s full price history, see our Cursor pricing and Devin Desktop pricing trackers.
Limits compared: weekly multiples vs daily and weekly quotas
This is where the two really differ, and where the sticker price stops telling you much.
How Cursor’s limits work
Cursor measures each plan against Plus. Premium gets 4x Plus usage, Super 15x and Ultra 50x. Teams get 4x to 50x. The allowance “refreshes weekly” (Cursor pricing, checked Oct 15, 2026).
The catch is models. Plus is “Only Grok models”. On Premium and above, models from other labs, such as Claude and GPT, are available but billed at API list price on top of your plan. Cursor’s paid plans also share one pool of Grok usage across the Grok app, the Grok tab on X and Cursor (our Cursor pricing breakdown, checked Oct 14, 2026).
Cursor’s cheapest paid plan won’t let you use anything but Grok, and every higher plan charges extra, by the token, for the Claude and GPT models a lot of developers picked Cursor for in the first place. Bundling your own models is fine. Putting a meter on everyone else’s is a choice.
How Devin Desktop’s limits work
Devin Desktop gives each plan a daily and a weekly quota, and each request draws from it according to how many tokens the model uses. A quick prompt costs little, and a long agent session over a big codebase costs a lot. Free models don’t count against your quota (quota docs, checked Oct 14, 2026).
By plan, per Devin’s pricing page and billing docs (Oct 15, 2026):
- Free: “Light quota”. When it runs out, you wait for the reset.
- Pro ($20): a daily and a weekly quota.
- Max ($200): a weekly quota only, with no daily cap.
- Teams: up to 200 users.
On Pro, Teams and Max, you can buy extra usage when you hit the cap, billed at API list prices for the model you’re using. Two weekend-friendly details from the docs: the daily quota is set higher than one-seventh of the weekly quota, so a big Saturday session won’t hit the daily cap, and quotas reset by calendar date.
Cognition’s own SWE-2 model is free on self-serve plans in Devin Desktop and Devin CLI through Nov 30, 2026 (extended from Oct 15). List pricing after that is $3.00 per 1M input tokens, $15.00 per 1M output and $0.30 per 1M cache input (Devin models docs, checked Oct 28, 2026).
What that means in practice
- You’re happy coding with Grok: Cursor’s multiples are simple to read, and Plus at $8 is the cheapest paid way in on either side.
- You want to switch freely between frontier models: on both tools you’ll pay API rates for heavy use, either as Cursor top-ups or Devin extra usage. Compare those rates, not the plan prices.
- You do long agent runs in bursts: Devin Max has no daily cap, so a marathon day won’t stop you before the weekly quota does.
Teams pricing
- Cursor Teams: from $30 per user a month, with 4x to 50x Plus usage depending on the tier.
- Devin Desktop Teams: an $80-a-month minimum plus $40 a month per full seat, for up to 200 users (billing docs, checked Oct 15, 2026). SSO is now Enterprise-only on new Teams plans (quota docs, checked Oct 14, 2026).
The two are built differently: Cursor charges per user, and Devin charges a team minimum plus per seat. Price your real headcount on both pages before you decide. If you need SSO, Devin’s Enterprise tier means talking to sales.
Who should pick which
Pick Cursor if you want the cheapest paid entry ($8), you’re fine with Grok as your main model, or you want more in-between tiers ($30 and $100) than Devin Desktop offers.
Pick Devin Desktop if you’d rather have one token-based quota at $20 than Cursor’s Grok-only entry tier, you code in long bursts and want Max’s no-daily-cap setup, or you’re a grandfathered Windsurf subscriber on $15 Pro or $30 Teams. In that last case, think hard before giving that price up.
Still shopping? See our Cursor alternatives for Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Zed, Kiro and more, all priced.
FAQ
Is Windsurf still free? Windsurf is now Devin Desktop, and its Free plan costs $0 with a “Light quota”, per devin.ai/pricing on Oct 15, 2026.
Is Cursor cheaper than Windsurf? Cursor’s cheapest paid plan is $8 (Grok models only) against Devin Desktop Pro at $20, and both top out at $200 a month.
What happened to Windsurf? Cognition renamed it Devin Desktop and replaced prompt credits with daily and weekly quotas in March 2026.
Can I still use Claude in Cursor or Devin Desktop? Cursor offers Claude on Premium and above at API list prices, and Devin Desktop charges models against your quota by token cost.
Do grandfathered Windsurf plans still work? Yes, Devin’s quota docs say existing Pro at $15 and Teams at $30 a seat keep that price indefinitely on the new quota system.
Does Cursor or Devin Desktop offer annual billing? Neither pricing page listed an annual price on Oct 15, 2026, so check current price at checkout.
Sources
- Cursor pricing: https://cursor.com/pricing (checked 2026-10-15)
- Devin pricing: https://devin.ai/pricing (checked 2026-10-15)
- Devin self-serve billing docs: https://docs.devin.ai/admin/billing/self-serve.md (checked 2026-10-15)
- Devin Desktop quota docs: https://docs.devin.ai/desktop/accounts/quota (checked 2026-10-14)
- Devin Desktop models docs: https://docs.devin.ai/desktop/models (checked 2026-10-15)
- xAI, The X Subscription: https://x.ai/news/x-subscription (checked 2026-10-14)