Is Windsurf still called Windsurf?

No. It is now Devin Desktop, following Cognition's acquisition. windsurf.com returns an HTTP 308 permanent redirect to devin.ai/desktop, verified 18 August 2026.

How much does Windsurf cost now?

Pro rose from $15 to $20 per month, the same as Cursor Pro. Team billing is per developer seat plus a fixed monthly platform fee. Because devin.ai rate-limits automated checks we could confirm those team figures only once, so get them quoted in writing before purchasing.

Is Windsurf still cheaper than Cursor?

No. At $20/month Pro, it is level with Cursor Pro. The frequently repeated argument that Windsurf offered most of Cursor's capability at three-quarters of the price no longer holds — choose on product rather than price.

Does Windsurf still work after the rebrand?

Yes. The editor and Cascade continue to work; existing users are not cut off. What changed is the company behind it, the billing entity and the roadmap, all of which are now Cognition's.

What should teams use instead of Windsurf?

GitHub Copilot Business at $19 per seat is the cheaper and more predictable team purchase, with no platform fee and support for every major IDE. Cursor Teams is the closest like-for-like if you want the agentic editor experience, though Cursor is itself being acquired by SpaceX.

Why do reviews still call it Windsurf?

Because most tool reviews are written once and never re-checked. A vendor rebranding does not notify anyone who wrote about it, so articles keep the old name and the old price indefinitely. Check the vendor's own site before trusting any figure in a comparison article.

Windsurf Is Now Devin Desktop: What Changed for Teams (2026)

If Windsurf is on your shortlist, the first thing to know is that it is not called Windsurf any more, and the second is that its price went up.

The rebrand, verified

windsurf.com returns an HTTP 308 Permanent Redirect to devin.ai/desktop. Not a 302, not a landing page with a notice — a permanent redirect to a different host. That is the strongest signal a product has moved rather than merely been re-skinned.

$ curl -sI https://windsurf.com
HTTP/2 308
location: https://devin.ai/desktop

Cognition — the company behind the Devin agent — acquired Windsurf and folded it in as the desktop product. The editor still exists and Cascade still works. What changed is whose roadmap it sits on and whose invoice it appears on.

Why this matters more than a name change

For procurement. A contract, a security review, or a vendor-risk entry that says “Windsurf” now names a product that redirects elsewhere. If you are partway through a review, the legal entity and the data-processing terms are Cognition’s, not Windsurf’s. Worth checking before signing rather than after.

For evaluation. Reviews written before the acquisition describe a company that no longer independently exists. Feature roadmaps, support expectations and pricing all now flow from Cognition’s priorities, and Devin — an autonomous agent — is the flagship, with the desktop editor alongside it.

For your existing team. Nothing breaks. But if you standardised on Windsurf partly because it was the cheaper alternative to Cursor, that reason has expired.

The pricing changed, and by more than inflation

Windsurf Pro was $15/month. Devin Desktop Pro is $20/month — the same price as Cursor Pro.

That matters because the old case for Windsurf was frequently “80–90% of Cursor at 75% of the price”. At parity, that argument disappears and the decision becomes purely about the product: Cascade’s agentic workflow against Cursor’s more mature multi-file editing and its bring-your-own-key option.

Teams pricing is per developer seat plus a fixed monthly platform fee, which is unusual in this category — most competitors bill per seat only. On a small team that fixed component is a meaningful share of the bill: it is spread over five seats the same way it is spread over fifty.

Verify the figures before you buy. We checked devin.ai/pricing on 18 August 2026, but the site rate-limits automated requests and we could not re-confirm on the same day. Every other number on this page was verified twice; these were not. Ask Cognition for the Teams price and the platform fee in writing, and take our figures as a prompt to ask rather than as a quote.

How it compares now

Feature	W Windsurf (Devin Desktop)	C Cursor	G GitHub Copilot	C Claude Code
Price	$20/mo	$20/mo	$10/mo	$20/mo (via Pro)
Autocomplete	Good	Excellent	Very Good
Chat
Multi-file editing
Codebase context	Full project	Full project	Workspace	Full project
Custom models
VS Code compatible
Terminal AI
Free tier
	Try Devin Desktop Free	Try Cursor Free	Try GitHub Copilot	Try Claude Code

Verified Aug 13, 2026· 4 logged Compare all 11 →

Against Cursor — same Pro price, so pick on product. Cursor’s Composer is more mature for multi-file work; Cascade is the stronger agentic loop. Cursor is itself mid-acquisition by SpaceX, so neither option is on stable corporate ground this year.

Against Copilot Business ($19/seat) — Copilot is cheaper per seat, has no platform fee, and runs in every major IDE rather than requiring your team to adopt a specific editor. If predictable billing matters more than the agent, that is the safer team purchase.

Heads up:Windsurf is now Devin Desktop. windsurf.com returns a permanent redirect to devin.ai/desktop after Cognition acquired it, so a tool you evaluate under one name is billed and supported under another. Source.

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What to do

Evaluating? Evaluate it as Devin Desktop and read Cognition’s docs, not Windsurf-era reviews. Search results and comparison articles are still full of the old name and the old $15 price.

Already paying? Check what your renewal quotes. A rebrand is a common moment for terms to change, and your invoice now comes from a different company.

Writing it into a document? Use “Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)” so the next person to read it can find the vendor.

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Redirect and rebrand verified 18 August 2026. Team pricing checked once on the same date and not independently re-confirmed — see the note above. We earn nothing from any link on this page and are not enrolled in an affiliate programme for any tool here — full disclosure.

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