- Best for
- Teams that want to hand whole tickets to an autonomous agent while keeping a local IDE
- Price
- Freemium · from $20/month
Free: Light agent quota, limited models, unlimited Tab completions - Platforms
- Web, Desktop app, Terminal, Other
- Made by
- Cognition AI, San Francisco, USA · since 2023
What it is
Devin is Cognition's autonomous coding agent: it works in the cloud on its own machines, tests in its own browser and delivers pull requests, and can be tagged from Slack, Teams or Linear. In June 2026 Cognition rebranded Windsurf as Devin Desktop, a full IDE with Tab completions and a local agent.
Latest: Windsurf was rebranded as Devin Desktop in June 2026.
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
Pros and cons
- 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
How it scores
Code quality7.5
Ease of use7.5
Features8.5
Value for money7.5
Platforms7.5
Best-in-class breadth of features; quality evidence comes mostly from Cognition itself.
Feature checklist · 6 of 9
- ✓Autonomous agent mode that edits multiple files (yes)
- ✓Inline code completion as you type (yes)
- –Choice of AI models from more than one vendor (no)
- –Use your own API keys, local models or self-hosted deployment (no)
- –Extension for existing IDEs (VS Code or JetBrains) (no)
- ✓Command-line (terminal) agent (yes)
- ✓Cloud agents that keep working in the background (yes)
- ✓AI code review for pull requests (yes)
- ✓Connects to external tools (MCP, plugins or apps like Slack and Jira) (yes)
How we score apps →
Alternatives
See all Devin (Devin Desktop, formerly Windsurf) alternatives, ranked →
- OpenAI Codex 8.7/10Developers who want parallel, asynchronous tasks and pull requests back, bundled with ChatGPT
- GitHub Copilot 8.6/10Developers and teams on GitHub who want AI in the IDE they already use, at the lowest entry price
- Claude Code 8.5/10Engineers who hand off large multi-file tasks and long autonomous runs
- Cursor 8.3/10IDE-first developers who want AI in every keystroke and the freedom to switch models
OpenAI Codex vs Devin (Devin Desktop, formerly Windsurf)
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