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Price
from 20 $/mo
Vendor
Cognition

Specifications & properties

Key decision factors

Pricing model
Freemium 1
Tool form
  • Standalone IDE
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Autonomy level
Supervised agent 1
Model choice
Multiple models 1

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Price from
20 $/mo 1
Free tier
Yes 1

Model

Available models
OpenAI, Claude and Gemini frontier models; SWE 1.6/1.7 1
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Agentic IDE formerly known as Windsurf, acquired by Cognition and now offered as Devin Desktop.

Profile

Devin Desktop is Cognition's agentic IDE — the direct rebrand of Windsurf, the standalone code editor Cognition acquired in July 2025, now positioned as a command center for running Devin and other coding agents inside a full desktop editor. Cognition renamed Windsurf to Devin Desktop on June 2, 2026, folding what was previously a separate brand into its unified Devin product family, which also includes Devin Cloud and Devin Review.

Where it comes from

  • Cognition acquired Windsurf's IP, product, trademark, and roughly 210 remaining staff in July 2025, after Windsurf reported $82 million in ARR and 350+ enterprise customers.
  • On June 2, 2026, Cognition shipped the "Windsurf is now Devin Desktop" update: the same editor, extensions, keybindings, LSPs, and terminal, unified under the Devin brand.
  • The JetBrains integration still ships separately as "Windsurf for JetBrains" and was not renamed.

Core features

  • Agent Command Center as the default view: a Kanban-style surface for planning, delegating, reviewing, and shipping work across multiple local and cloud agents at once.
  • Spaces, which let related agents share context, files, and a Git worktree so several agents can collaborate on the same task.
  • Support for the Agent Client Protocol (ACP), so third-party agents such as Codex, Claude Agent, or OpenCode can run inside Devin Desktop alongside Devin itself.
  • Devin Local, a Rust-rewritten local agent that replaces the old "Cascade" agent and is built for better token efficiency, with subagent support; Cascade kept working only through a short transition window.
  • A full code editor underneath the agent layer: syntax highlighting, autocomplete/Supercomplete, debugging, fast codebase-wide context retrieval, and diff review before agent changes ship.
  • Available for macOS, Windows, and Linux, plus a separate JetBrains plugin and the Devin CLI.

Pricing

Existing Windsurf plans, prices, and settings carried over automatically with the rebrand — nothing changed for current subscribers, including legacy Windsurf Enterprise contracts. Devin Desktop pricing now mirrors Devin's overall plan structure:

  • Free — $0/month.
  • Pro — $20/month.
  • Max — $200/month.
  • Teams — $80/month base plus $40/month per full developer seat; a full seat with $40/month of usage is required to unlock Devin Desktop access, and that usage pools across all Devin products.
  • Enterprise — custom pricing.

Who it's for

Devin Desktop suits developers and teams who already think in terms of managing multiple AI coding agents rather than writing every line themselves, and who want that agent management built into a full-featured, extension-compatible IDE instead of a thin wrapper around a single model. Existing Windsurf users get a like-for-like upgrade with no migration effort — settings, .windsurfrules, and .windsurf/ configuration continue to work unchanged. Teams standardizing on Cognition's broader agent stack, combining Devin Cloud for autonomous remote tasks with Devin Review for pull-request review, get a consistent local counterpart inside the same editor.

Frequently asked questions

What is Devin Desktop and how does it relate to Windsurf?

Devin Desktop is the renamed, evolved version of Windsurf, the standalone AI code editor Cognition acquired in July 2025. Cognition shipped the rename as an automatic update on June 2, 2026, unifying Windsurf into its Devin product family while keeping the same editor, extensions, keybindings, and settings.

What does Devin Desktop cost, and do old Windsurf plans still work?

Existing Windsurf subscriptions, including legacy Windsurf Enterprise contracts, carried over automatically at the same price when the product became Devin Desktop. Its pricing now follows Devin's overall plan structure: Free, Pro at $20/month, Max at $200/month, Teams at $80/month plus $40/month per full seat (required to unlock Devin Desktop access on Teams), and custom-priced Enterprise.

What platforms and editors does Devin Desktop support?

Devin Desktop is a native desktop app for macOS, Windows (64-bit), and Linux (glibc 2.28+ / glibcxx 3.4.25+), downloaded directly from Cognition. The JetBrains integration continues to ship separately under its original name, "Windsurf for JetBrains," covering IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, and other JetBrains IDEs, and was not affected by the rename.

What happened to Cascade, Windsurf's old agent?

Cascade was replaced by Devin Local, a local agent rewritten in Rust that Cognition says is more token-efficient and adds subagent support, while keeping the same pricing model as before. Cascade kept working for existing users only through a short transition window after the June 2, 2026 rename.

What are the Agent Command Center and Agent Client Protocol (ACP) in Devin Desktop?

The Agent Command Center is Devin Desktop's default, Kanban-style view for planning, delegating, reviewing, and shipping work across multiple local and cloud agents at once, with "Spaces" letting related agents share context and a Git worktree. Devin Desktop also supports the Agent Client Protocol, which lets third-party agents such as Codex or Claude Agent run inside the same window alongside Devin, rather than locking users into a single agent.

How does Devin Desktop handle customer data and privacy?

Cognition's Data Processing Addendum for Devin and Windsurf commits to not selling or sharing customer personal data and to using it only to provide the service, alongside encryption in transit and at rest and SOC 2 certification. The DPA also discloses the subprocessors involved in processing, including model providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google/Vertex, and describes breach-notification and EU/UK data-transfer safeguards.