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Continue vs Windsurf (now Devin Desktop)

Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.

 
23/100
55/100Higher score
Category rank#10#3
ConfidenceMedium confidenceMedium confidence
External Reputation72
AI Authority
Web Authority1425
Expert Assessment3660
TOP10 User Score
PricingNot published · free tier: Free trial of the Models Add-On allowing 50 chat requests and 2,000 autocomplete requestsUSD $20/month (Pro) · free tier: $0 — light agent quota, limited model availability, unlimited inline edits, unlimited Tab completions, 1 member, up to 10 concurrent sessions
Pricing modelSubscription (tiers named, no figures published; billing now disabled)Subscription with usage quotas and API-priced overage
Best forOnly an engineering organisation with the capacity to fork and maintain an Apache 2.0 codebase in-house; there is no viable commercial purchase.Individual developers and VS Code-native small teams who want a full agentic IDE with multi-provider model access at $20/month, and heavy autocomplete users who benefit from unlimited free Tab.
Avoid if You need a supported AI coding assistant in 2026 — there is no vendor support, no maintenance and no billing relationship. You need naming and roadmap stability for a long procurement cycle, do very large-context work, require a trial before committing, or need a published Enterprise price and predictable per-seat Teams cost.
MarketsIndividual developers, SMB, Enterprise, Regulated and privacy-sensitive organisationsSMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise, Individual developers
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A higher TOP SCORE means more of the evidence favours that platform on this methodology — it is not a recommendation, and it does not account for your specific requirements. Advertisers are never declared the winner of a comparison.