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AI coding assistant that became the Windsurf editor and is now folded into Cognition's Devin (Devin Desktop).
✓ Curated profile2 sources cited
FindThatSoftware verdictEditorial ruling
Codeium is a moving target for India buyers: the brand became Windsurf and is now Cognition's Devin, so you are really evaluating Devin Desktop, with a free tier and paid plans starting at $20/user/mo (Devin Pro). USD billing means a forex premium and GST considerations for registered businesses, and because the product identity and pricing shifted recently, quotas and plan names may differ from older reviews. Verify current pricing and the product name on devin.ai/pricing before committing, since the free tier is the safest way to test fit first.
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Should you use Windsurf?
Use it if developers wanting an agent-centric editor as a Copilot/Cursor alternative. Avoid it if buyers who need a stable, long-lived brand and unchanged pricing.
Spec sheet
- Starting price
- ₹1,985/mo$20/user/mo sticker
- Free plan
- Available
- Free trial
- Not listed
- Status
- Curated 29 Jul 2026
- Source trail
- 2 public sources
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Windsurf is a developer & data / developer tools for Indian buyers. All-in it runs about ₹1,985/mo for a GST-registered business ($20/user/mo sticker plus about 3.5% card forex). It does not issue an India GST invoice, so a registered business reclaims the GST via reverse charge. FindThatSoftware rates it best for developers wanting an agent-centric editor as a Copilot/Cursor alternative, and a poor fit if buyers who need a stable, long-lived brand and unchanged pricing.
The trade-off, weighed
What you gain, and what you give up.
The case for
- Free tier available to trial agentic coding before paying
- Cascade agent plus Supercomplete autocomplete in a full IDE
- Now backed by Cognition/Devin with active multi-agent tooling
- Established GitHub Copilot alternative with a mature feature set
The catch
- Brand and product churn (Codeium to Windsurf to Devin) creates uncertainty
- USD pricing adds a forex premium for India buyers
- Recent rebrand means older pricing and quota details may be stale
True India price
Registered business, per month
₹1,985
Windsurf advertises $20/mo. A GST-registered business in India pays about ₹1,985 a month (₹23,817/yr) once the roughly 3.5% card forex markup is added, with GST reclaimed as input credit. If you cannot reclaim GST, it is about ₹2,342 a month.
- Sticker price
- $20/mo
- Card forex markup
- about 3.5% over mid-market
- GST
- 18%, reclaimable if registered
- Registered per month
- ₹1,985
- Registered per year
- ₹23,817
- If you can't reclaim GST
- ₹2,342
- Try first
- Has a free plan, so you can start without a card.
Indicative, not a bill. The exchange rate is a single mid-market reference, not a live feed, and GST-registered businesses may reclaim input credit. Confirm current pricing on the vendor site.
Full India pricing breakdownIndia readiness
How well Windsurf fits an Indian business operationally, from the verified pricing and company facts we hold.
- ✗GST invoice
No Indian GST invoice, so a registered business cannot claim input tax credit on the bill.
- ✗Bills in INR
Priced in a foreign currency, so your card or bank adds forex conversion on top.
- ✗India HQ
Headquartered outside India, so check support hours and India-specific features.
How Windsurf compares
Against the 2 other ai coding assistant toolswe list, from what we verified on each vendor’s own pages.
Also in most alternatives
Recorded for at least half of the 2 others, and for Windsurf.
- Parallel agent fleets
- Sso saml
This compares only the capabilities enough rival tools share for a comparison to mean anything — roughly a quarter of what we verified. The full list is under “What we verified” below, and anything absent from both is something we did not record rather than something the product lacks.
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What is Windsurf?
Codeium launched as an AI autocomplete and chat assistant, then evolved into the Windsurf agentic code editor with its Cascade agent and Supercomplete autocomplete. Following Cognition's acquisition, codeium.com and windsurf.com now redirect to devin.ai, and the editor is rebranded Devin Desktop, an agent command center for planning, delegating, and reviewing coding-agent work. It remains a direct alternative to GitHub Copilot and Cursor for AI-assisted and agentic coding.
Best for
- Developers wanting an agent-centric editor as a Copilot/Cursor alternative
- Solo developers and small teams testing agentic coding on a free tier
- Teams already interested in Cognition's Devin ecosystem
Who should avoid it
- Buyers who need a stable, long-lived brand and unchanged pricing
- Teams requiring INR-native billing or a fully free self-hosted assistant
What Windsurf does
What we verified about Windsurf
Read from Windsurf’s own pages. Each line is a finding and what it was based on, so you can check any of it yourself.
Features we confirmed24
- Vpc deployment
- VPC deployment is offered on the Enterprise plan
- Sso saml
- SAML and OIDC SSO are listed as Enterprise tier features
- Parallel agent fleets
- Can spin up a team of Devins to run large tasks in parallel
- Command line interface
- Devin CLI is a listed product form alongside Cloud and Desktop
- Automated code review
- Devin Review is a dedicated pull request review product
- AI code autocomplete
- Product began as AI autocomplete and chat, later Supercomplete in Windsurf
- Agentic coding agent
- Cascade agent evolved into Devin, an autonomous coding agent
- Auto generated documentation
- DeepWiki auto-generates documentation and system diagrams from legacy codebases
- Autonomous pr creation
- Devin ships pull requests, incorporates review feedback and iterates until merge
- Browser based visual qa
- Visual QA runs through browser and desktop use to find bugs
- Bug triage and incident response
- Investigates issues, triages bugs and handles on-call scenarios
- Centralized admin controls
- Centralized enterprise admin controls listed under Enterprise
- Ci failure fixing
- Devin runs and fixes tests and addresses CI failures autonomously
- Cloud hosted agent sessions
- Devin Cloud is gated off the Free tier and included from Pro upward
- Codebase knowledge learning
- Devin learns codebases and tribal knowledge to improve task execution
- Concurrent agent sessions
- Free and Pro allow up to 10 concurrent sessions, Max and above unlimited
- Delegate and review agent work
- Devin Desktop is for planning, delegating and reviewing coding-agent output
- Desktop agent command center
- Devin Desktop is positioned as a command centre for planning and delegating agent work
- Frontier model access
- Pro unlocks full model availability including frontier models
- Large scale code migration
- Handles complex refactors and migrations across millions of lines of code
- Multi repo project execution
- Parallel execution is aimed at complex multi-repo projects
- Session trajectory learning
- Improves over time by analysing past session trajectories
- System diagram generation
- Auto-generates system diagrams for legacy systems alongside docs
- Windows vm environment
- Devin Windows VM provides Windows environment support
What people use it for2
- Review prs automatically
- Devin Review exists specifically to review pull requests
- Run a large refactor without a team
- Migrations across millions of lines are a headline job for the agent
Works with22
- Stripe
- Stripe named among supported business tool integrations
- Snowflake
- Snowflake named among data and analytics integrations
- Slack
- Slack named among supported communication integrations
- Sentry
- Sentry named among data and analytics integrations
- Segment
- Segment named among data and analytics integrations
- Postgresql
- PostgreSQL named among supported infrastructure integrations
- Notion
- Notion named among productivity integrations
- Mongodb
- MongoDB named among supported infrastructure integrations
- Microsoft teams
- Teams named among supported communication integrations
- Linear
- Linear named among supported project management integrations
- Jira
- Jira named among supported project management integrations
- Google drive
- Google Drive named among productivity integrations
- Gitlab
- GitLab named among supported development platforms
- Github
- GitHub named among supported development platforms
- Datadog
- Datadog named among data and analytics integrations
- Databricks
- Databricks named among data and analytics integrations
- Confluence
- Confluence named among productivity integrations
- Aws
- AWS named among cloud and infrastructure integrations
- Asana
- Asana named among supported project management integrations
- Airtable
- Airtable named among productivity integrations
- Azure
- Azure named among cloud and infrastructure integrations
- Devin
- The product now ships as Devin Desktop under the Devin platform
Terms, compliance and how you buy19
- Self serve signup
- Free, Pro and Max are bought online without a sales call
- Acquired by cognition
- Cognition acquired the product and rebranded the editor as Devin Desktop
- Brand and pricing churn
- Windsurf and Codeium branding no longer appear on the pricing page at all
- Developer audience
- The entire product is an IDE and agent tooling for software engineers
- Domain redirects to devin
- codeium.com and windsurf.com now redirect to devin.ai
- Free tier available
- A free plan gives a light quota with limited model availability
- Free tier limited models
- Free plan states limited model availability versus full access on Pro
- High end individual tier
- Max sits at 200 dollars a month for significantly higher quotas
- No brand stability
- Buyers needing a long-lived unchanged brand and pricing are explicitly a poor fit
- No INR billing
- USD pricing adds a forex premium for India buyers
- Not self hostable free
- Our research flags it as unsuitable for teams wanting a fully free self-hosted assistant
- Opaque usage accounting
- The pricing page does not define what a credit or ACU actually is
- Per seat plus base fee
- Teams is 80 dollars a month base plus 40 dollars per full developer seat
- Quota based metering
- Usage quotas refresh daily and weekly, with cost varying by model and task complexity
- Quote only enterprise tier
- Enterprise pricing is a Let's talk custom quote
- Rebranded twice
- Codeium became Windsurf and is now folded into Cognition's Devin
- Single user on individual plans
- Free, Pro and Max are all capped at 1 member
- Stale third party reviews
- Recent rebrand means older pricing and quota details may not match
- Usd billed
- Plans quoted at 0, 20 and 200 dollars a month plus per-seat charges
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Pricing caveat and source trail
Pricing and free-plan claims can change. FindThatSoftware keeps source URLs visible so users can verify before buying.
Check the official pricing page before buying.
Devin (formerly Windsurf/Codeium) official pricing pagehttps://windsurf.com/pricingDevin Desktop (formerly Windsurf editor) product pagehttps://devin.ai/desktop
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Does Windsurf give a GST invoice in India?
Windsurf does not issue an India GST invoice. A GST-registered business can still reclaim the 18% through the reverse-charge route by raising a self-invoice, but there is no vendor GST invoice to claim against directly.
Is Windsurf good for Indian small businesses?
Windsurf can work for Indian buyers, but check currency, tax, billing, support, and whether the workflow justifies foreign-currency pricing.
Does Windsurf have a free plan?
Windsurf lists a free plan, but check the official pricing page for current usage limits before choosing it.
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