Windsurf (now Devin Desktop)
AI-native code editor, rebranded as Devin Desktop
Score breakdown
What makes up this score
- 1 independent review sources
- 34 third-party reviews counted
- No AI visibility measurements in window
- 8 web authority signals
- average citing-domain authority 35
- 100% of the category rubric covered
- No approved user reviews yet
Explanation
Why Windsurf (now Devin Desktop) ranks #3
Windsurf (now Devin Desktop) ranks #3 of 10 ai coding assistants with a TOP SCORE of 55.
The category leader scores 73, a gap of 19 points.
That is 9 points above the category average of 46.
Its strongest component is External Reputation at 72; its weakest is Web Authority at 25.
No usable evidence was found for AI Authority, TOP10 User Score, so that weight was redistributed across the components that are evidenced.
Generated from the recorded evidence behind this score, not from editorial opinion. How scoring works.
Score history
How the score has moved
55 → 55 ↑0.0
External reputation
What third-party sources publish
| Source | Published | Normalised | Reviews | Last checked | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G2 ↗ | 4.2/5 | 84 | 34 | 31 Aug 2026 | permitted crawl |
AI visibility
How answer engines treat this platform
No AI visibility measurement has been recorded for this platform yet.
Web authority
Citations and independent coverage
- Cognition31 Aug 2026
- G231 Aug 2026
- G2 Learning Hub31 Aug 2026
- Gartner Peer Insights31 Aug 2026
- Trustpilot31 Aug 2026
- Digital Applied31 Aug 2026
- Medium31 Aug 2026
- Cognition31 Aug 2026
TOP10 users
What our users report
No published reviews yet. Reviews are moderated before they appear and are never removed at a business's request.
Company information
The facts on file
- Description
- Windsurf is an AI-native desktop code editor originally built by Exafunction/Codeium, now owned by Cognition and shipped as the desktop client in the Devin product family after a June 2026 rebrand to Devin Desktop. It combines unlimited Tab autocomplete and inline edits with agentic coding across OpenAI, Anthropic and Google frontier models plus the in-house SWE 1.7 model. It targets individual developers and small-to-midsize engineering teams who want a full agentic IDE rather than a plugin.
- Category
- AI Coding Assistants
- Products
- Windsurf / Devin Desktop editor, Devin Cloud (cloud agents), SWE 1.7 model, Devin API, DeepWiki, Ask Devin
- Markets
- SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise, Individual developers
- Integrations
- Slack, Microsoft Teams, Linear, Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Custom git providers
- Pricing
- USD $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 page ↗
- Regulatory
- Owned by Cognition; legal terms and privacy policy resolve to cognition.com. Vendor-stated enterprise posture includes SAML/OIDC SSO, centralized admin controls, VPC deployment, teamspace isolation and custom terms. SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and FedRAMP status were not verified and no claim is made. Agent Client Protocol Apache 2.0 licensing is reported third-party only and unverified. Reports of an OpenAI acquisition attempt are unconsummated and excluded.
- Official website
- https://windsurf.com ↗
- Last verified
- 31 Aug 2026
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Category context
- This platform55
- Category leader73
- Category average46
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