Windsurf pricing in 2026: the editor is now Devin Desktop — here's what it costs

First, the thing nobody tells you on the way to the pricing page

If you searched for Windsurf pricing recently and landed on a site called Devin, nothing went wrong. Cognition rebranded the Windsurf editor as Devin Desktop on 2 June 2026. As of August 2026, windsurf.com issues a redirect to devin.ai — there is no separate Windsurf pricing page any more.

So “Windsurf pricing” in 2026 means one of two things:

• What the editor costs now — which is the Devin plan lineup below.

• What it used to cost — which is what most search results still show you, because a lot of pricing roundups haven't caught up.

This article is the first one. Everything below is taken from the official pricing page the Windsurf domain now points to, verified August 2026.

Current plans (official)

• Free — $0/month. 1 seat · a light quota for coding with agents · limited model availability · unlimited inline edits · unlimited tab completions.

• Pro — $20/month. 1 seat · everything in Free plus increased quotas that refresh on a daily and weekly basis · full model availability · cloud agents · the option to purchase extra usage at API pricing.

• Max — $200/month. 1 seat · everything in Pro with significantly higher quotas.

• Teams — $80/month base plus $40/month per full developer seat. Unlimited flex seats · everything in Pro plus team features, centralised billing, an admin dashboard with analytics, priority support.

• Enterprise — custom. Everything in Teams plus dedicated support, SAML/OIDC SSO, a VPC deployment option and a dedicated account team.

A warning about secondary sources. Several pricing roundups still list Pro at $15/month, and some contradict themselves within a single article — quoting $20 in the summary and $15 in the body. If a number matters to your budget, take it from the official page rather than an aggregator. This is exactly why every figure in this article is dated.

What you're actually buying: quota, not features

The lineup separates on how much the AI works for you, not on what the editor can do. Inline edits and tab completions are unlimited even on Free. What the paid tiers add is headroom for agentic work — the requests where the model plans, writes across files, and iterates.

Which makes the choice unusually simple:

• Free if you mostly want autocomplete and occasional help. The unlimited completions genuinely are the everyday feature for a lot of people.

• Pro at $20 if you hand real tasks to the agent most days. This is the tier that matches how people actually describe using these tools.

• Max at $200 if you hit Pro's quota often enough to be annoyed by it. Ten times the price for headroom — the honest test is whether you're currently pausing work to wait for a refresh.

• Teams once billing and access management matter more than the per-person price. Note the shape: $80 base plus $40 per developer, so a team of three is $200/month, not $120.

Pro's escape hatch is worth naming: you can buy extra usage at API pricing rather than jumping to Max. If you're over quota twice a month, topping up is cheaper than a tenfold subscription.

What the rebrand means for you in practice

A rename is mostly cosmetic, but three consequences are real:

• Your bookmarks and docs are stale. Old Windsurf URLs redirect, which is fine until something doesn't. If you have internal onboarding docs pointing at windsurf.com, update them.

• Search results are a minefield for a while. Half the pricing articles online describe a product under a name it no longer uses, with numbers from before the change. Treat anything undated as unreliable.

• Nothing changed about your code. Projects you built in Windsurf are just projects. The editor's branding has no bearing on where the app runs.

That last point is the one that matters most, and it leads somewhere useful.

The editor is not the hosting — and that's a separate bill

Whatever it's called this quarter, this is a tool for writing software. It doesn't put your app on the internet. That's a different job with a different price, and it's the step where a lot of people building with AI tools get stuck — you have a folder of working code and no live URL.

Worth being explicit about the two bills, because they get conflated constantly:

• The build bill — $0 to $200/month here, depending on how hard you lean on the agent. It stops when you stop building.

• The hosting bill — whatever it costs to keep the finished thing reachable. It starts when you ship and continues forever.

Unlike builder platforms that bundle hosting into their credits — Lovable and Bolt both do, and both have quirks when the credits run out — an editor leaves hosting entirely to you. That's more freedom and one more decision. On a flat host it's $10/month with a custom domain and free SSL, and it doesn't move when you stop editing. Our walkthrough on deploying an app built in Windsurf covers the actual steps.

FAQ

Is Windsurf still available?

Yes — the editor exists, under a new name. Cognition rebranded it as Devin Desktop on 2 June 2026, and windsurf.com now redirects to devin.ai. Your installation and your projects are unaffected by the rename.

How much does Windsurf cost now?

Free $0, Pro $20/month, Max $200/month, Teams $80/month base plus $40 per developer seat, Enterprise custom. All single-seat except Teams and Enterprise. Verified August 2026 from the official pricing page.

Is Windsurf free?

There's a free tier: one seat, a light quota for agent work, limited model choice, and unlimited inline edits and tab completions. For autocomplete-style use it's genuinely usable; for agentic work the quota is the constraint.

Why do different sites list different Windsurf prices?

Because the product was renamed mid-2026 and many roundups haven't been updated — several still cite Pro at $15/month, and at least one contradicts itself between its summary and its body. Check the official page, and prefer sources that date their figures.

Is Max worth $200 a month?

Only if you regularly hit Pro's quota. Pro lets you buy extra usage at API pricing, which is usually cheaper than a tenfold subscription for occasional overflow. Max makes sense when waiting for a quota refresh is costing you working hours every week.

Does the subscription include hosting for what I build?

No. It's a code editor — it helps you write the app, not publish it. Hosting is a separate decision and a separate bill, typically around $10/month on a flat-priced host for a small app.

How does it compare to Cursor or the AI app builders?

It's in the editor category alongside Cursor — you keep the code and the workflow, and the AI assists. That's a different thing from builder platforms like Lovable or Bolt, which generate and host an app for you in exchange for credit-based pricing. Our roundup of vibe coding tools maps the whole landscape.

Same editor, new name, unchanged second bill

The practical summary is short: the tool you knew as Windsurf is Devin Desktop, the prices are Free / $20 / $200 / Teams, and most of what you'll find in search results about “Windsurf pricing” predates the change. Whichever tier you land on, remember it buys you help writing the app — the app still needs somewhere to live, and that's the bill that keeps running after you stop typing.

→ Put what you built online with livemy.app · Flat $10/month · Custom domain and SSL included.