Devin Desktop is the new name for Windsurf. Cognition renamed it on June 2, 2026 and shipped the change as an ordinary over-the-air update, so most users woke up to a different logo rather than a different product. The IDE, the extensions, the keybindings and the workflows are all still there. Plans and prices did not change, including for legacy Windsurf Enterprise contracts. Windsurf was not discontinued and your install did not stop working.

If you want to verify that in one command rather than take anyone's word for it, curl the old domain. windsurf.com returns a 308 redirect to devin.ai/desktop, and windsurf.com/pricing returns a 308 to devin.ai/pricing. Go one step further back and codeium.com still 301s to windsurf.com, which traces the whole lineage: Codeium became Windsurf, and Windsurf became Devin Desktop.

One update worth making to the original version of this piece, re-checked in August 2026: prices did not move for you, but they did move for new buyers. Cognition grandfathers existing subscribers indefinitely at $15 a month for Pro and $30 per developer seat on Teams, while somebody signing up today pays $20 and $40. New Teams plans also no longer include SSO, which became an Enterprise-only feature. The current grid and the full list of what changed is on our Devin Desktop pricing page.

What is Devin Desktop?

Devin Desktop is the desktop IDE in Cognition's Devin product line. It is a fork of VS Code with an agent built into it, which is exactly what Windsurf was, because it is the same application. Cognition's own transition FAQ puts it plainly: it is the same IDE, the same editor, and it has the same features, unified under the Devin brand. If you were running Windsurf 2.0, you were already running what became Devin Desktop.

What changed is the framing around the editor. The Agent Command Center, which covers Spaces, the Kanban view and multi-agent management, is now the primary view rather than a panel off to one side. The classic editing experience is still fully accessible and Cognition has been explicit that nothing is being removed. The rename sits alongside three sibling products: Devin Cloud for cloud agents, Devin CLI for the terminal, and Devin Review for automated code review.

What happened to Windsurf?

Two things, about eleven months apart. In July 2025 Cognition signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf, the agentic IDE, bringing it under the same roof as Devin, the autonomous agent Cognition launched in 2024. Then on June 2, 2026 Cognition consolidated everything under one brand and Windsurf became Devin Desktop.

The stated reasoning is worth reading, because it tells you where the product is going. Cognition's position is that the future of software engineering is managing teams of agents, local and cloud, working alongside you, and that the desktop app is the command center for that. They expect developers to spend the large majority of their day in it. Whether or not you agree, it explains why the Agent Command Center got promoted to the front of the interface.

Is Windsurf discontinued?

No. This is the single most common misreading of the news and it is worth being direct about. A rename is not a shutdown. The FAQ states that the IDE, your extensions and your workflows are all still there, that all existing work and progress remain intact, and that your plan, pricing and access remain the same. There was no interruption to ongoing work and no migration to perform.

The confusion is understandable given how much churn there has been in this category. Plenty of AI coding tools genuinely have wound down: Continue.dev was acquired by Cursor in June 2026 and Roo Code was archived in May 2026. Windsurf is not in that group. It is the same code, shipping under a new name, with a much larger agent platform attached to it.

Does my Windsurf plan or pricing change?

No. Cognition answers this one directly in the transition FAQ and applies it to all plan types, including legacy Windsurf Enterprise plans. There is no forced upgrade to a Cognition Platform Plan and no requirement to switch your billing to ACUs. Devin Cloud remains a separate product you buy separately.

For reference, the current self-serve lineup is Free at $0, Pro at $20 a month, Max at $200 a month, and Teams at a minimum of $80 a month. The separate change worth knowing about happened earlier, in March 2026, when Cognition retired the credit-based billing model and replaced it with daily and weekly usage quotas. Pro carries both a daily and a weekly cap; Max removes the daily cap and raises the weekly one. Credits still exist, but as pay-as-you-go top-ups once you pass your quota rather than as the primary unit.

On the Teams plan there is a structural detail that catches people out. Members hold either a full seat at $40 a month, which includes Devin Desktop access and a Pro-equivalent quota, or a flex seat, which costs nothing but draws from the team's shared on-demand credit pool and does not include Devin Desktop. If you are budgeting a team, count the people who need the editor, not the people on the account. We work through how that compares against the obvious alternative in Windsurf vs Cursor.

Are my Windsurf rules and settings still supported?

Yes, and the backward compatibility here is better than most rebrands manage. Devin Desktop still reads the legacy .windsurfrules file at your workspace root, and still reads rule files under .windsurf/rules/. The new .devin/rules/ directory takes precedence when both exist, so you can migrate gradually instead of in one pass. It also reads AGENTS.md, which is becoming the closest thing this category has to a shared convention.

Directory-based rules support activation triggers in their frontmatter, so a rule can apply always, only when the model judges it relevant, only for files matching a glob, or only when you invoke it by hand. Your settings and configuration port over automatically, and Cognition notes that if you are on a legacy Windsurf plan you can still use windsurf.com to manage them.

What happens to Cascade?

Cascade is being brought under the Devin brand along with everything else, and it is joined by a new local agent called Devin Local. Cognition describes Devin Local as more efficient than Cascade, supporting subagents, and running the same agent harness as the Devin CLI. It inherits your existing Windsurf settings. You do not have to use Devin, the cloud product, to use Devin Desktop; local-only agents keep working as before.

What should a team actually do about this?

For most individual developers the honest answer is nothing. Take the update, spend ten minutes finding where things moved, carry on. For a team with a contract, a few things are worth an hour of someone's attention.

Update your internal documentation and onboarding notes, because a new hire searching your wiki for "Windsurf" and finding nothing about Devin Desktop will file a ticket. Tell whoever owns vendor records that the name on the relationship has changed: after a rebrand the invoices arriving at your finance team carry a different entity name, and a line item that no longer matches the vendor record it used to reconcile against is a well-known way for an accounts payable process to start throwing exceptions at something that is not actually a problem. If you are on Teams, take the opportunity to audit your seat mix, because the full-versus-flex split is new enough that most accounts were never set up deliberately.

Then, separately from the housekeeping, ask the question the rename actually raises. Cognition has repositioned a code editor as the front end of an agent platform. That is a real strategic bet, and it is the same bet, from a different direction, that everyone else in this category is making. If your team is going to end up managing agents rather than typing every line, the tool you want is the one whose output you can review, not the one whose interface you like. Our guide to reviewing an AI pull request covers what that review actually has to catch, and what an AI coding agent does lays out the broader shape.

How does Devin Desktop compare to Cursor now?

Closer than it used to. The old shorthand was that Windsurf was the cheaper one, and that stopped being true in March 2026 when Pro moved from $15 to $20 and matched Cursor Pro exactly. Both now charge $200 for their power tier and $40 for a regular team seat. The genuine differences left are that Cursor publishes what your subscription buys in actual dollars while Cognition publishes an unnumbered quota, and that Devin Teams sells free flex seats where Cursor charges for every user.

The full breakdown, including the team seat math and where each one wins, is on our Windsurf vs Cursor comparison. If you are looking further afield, best AI for coding covers the wider field and AI coding tool pricing lays every billing model side by side.

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