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OpenAI Codex vs Devin (Devin Desktop, formerly Windsurf)
OpenAI Codex scores higher overall (8.7 vs 7.7), but the right pick depends on what you need.
Choose OpenAI Codex if…
Developers who want parallel, asynchronous tasks and pull requests back, bundled with ChatGPT
8.7/10★★★★★Full review →Choose Devin (Devin Desktop, formerly Windsurf) if…
Teams that want to hand whole tickets to an autonomous agent while keeping a local IDE
7.7/10★★★★★Full review →Side by side
| OpenAI Codex | Devin (Devin Desktop, formerly Windsurf) | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall score | 8.7/10 | 7.7/10 |
| Rank in category | #1 of 13 | #7 of 13 |
| Price | Freemium · from $8/month | Freemium · from $20/month |
| Free version | Quick coding tasks on ChatGPT Free | Light agent quota, limited models, unlimited Tab completions |
| Platforms | Web, iOS, VS Code, Terminal, Desktop app | Web, Desktop app, Terminal, Other |
| Made by | OpenAI | Cognition AI |
| Code quality | 9 | 7.5 |
| Ease of use | 8 | 7.5 |
| Features | 8.5 | 8.5 |
| Value for money | 9 | 7.5 |
| Platforms | 9 | 7.5 |
OpenAI Codex: what the AI does
- Cloud agent in sandboxed machines that delivers pull requests
- Open-source Codex CLI
- IDE extension and desktop app with multi-agent management
- Automatic GitHub code review
- Subagents, skills, hooks and MCP
- Codex Security vulnerability agent
- Top CLI agent on Terminal-Bench 2.0
- Low entry price, with free and $8 tiers
- Many surfaces: web, CLI, IDE, desktop, iOS
- Open-source CLI
- Async cloud tasks add latency for quick edits
- Only OpenAI models
- Free and Go tiers get a lighter model
Devin (Devin Desktop, formerly Windsurf): what the AI does
- Cloud agent that tests in its own machines and browser
- Devin Desktop IDE with Tab completions and a local agent
- Devin CLI
- Slack, Teams, Linear and Jira integrations
- DeepWiki and Devin Review
- Strong end-to-end autonomy, including self-testing and PRs
- IDE, CLI and cloud agent in one product family
- Free tier with unlimited Tab completions
- Deep team integrations
- The Windsurf rebrand forced users to migrate
- Quota-based usage can be opaque; heavy use pushes you to the $200 plan
- Little recent independent benchmark data