Codeium
Free autocomplete veteran, now Devin Desktop under Cognition
Overview
AI code completion and chat across 70+ languages and 40+ editors — born as Codeium, rebranded Windsurf, and sold by Cognition as Devin Desktop since June 2026. The free "Windsurf Plugin (formerly Codeium)" extensions still offer unlimited autocomplete.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 11 Jul 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- Unlimited Tab completions
- Unlimited inline edits
- SWE 1.6 model included
- Limited frontier-model access
- OpenAI, Claude and Gemini models
- Higher agent quotas
- Devin Cloud agents
- Free SWE 1.6 usage
- Everything in Pro
- Significantly higher quotas
- Centralized billing
- Admin dashboard
- Priority support
- SAML/OIDC SSO
- Optional VPC deployment
- Dedicated account management
Use cases
ASEAN Perspective
Codeium in Southeast Asia
ASEAN-region availability and pricing notes coming soon. Drop the editorial team a note via /contact/ if you can supply local context (Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Thailand/Vietnam).
The product formerly known as Codeium now lives two rebrands away: Windsurf, then Devin Desktop under Cognition since June 2026. The free plugin line survives — unlimited tab completions and chat across VS Code, JetBrains, Vim and dozens of other editors — and it remains one of the best zero-cost Copilot alternatives. Paid plans (Pro $20/month, Max $200, Teams $80 plus $40/seat) buy quota for the agentic features and frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. Caveats: the March 2026 switch from credits to daily and weekly quotas frustrated heavy users, billing support is thin, and the naming churn makes documentation and roadmap genuinely hard to follow. Individual developers wanting free autocomplete are still well served; teams betting on the agentic IDE should evaluate it as Devin, not Codeium. No regional blockers for ASEAN users.
What people say
Type codeium.com into a browser today and you bounce twice: first to windsurf.com, then to devin.ai. That redirect chain is the whole story. Codeium rebranded to Windsurf, Google paid roughly $2.4 billion in July 2025 to hire away the CEO and senior engineers, Cognition bought what was left, and on 2 June 2026 the flagship editor became Devin Desktop. Existing installs updated in place with plans preserved.
What survives of the original product is the plugin line. The extensions still ship on the VS Code, JetBrains, Eclipse and Vim marketplaces as "Windsurf Plugin (formerly Codeium)", and the free tier still carries the thing that made Codeium popular: unlimited autocomplete and chat across 70+ languages. Cognition's current ladder runs Free, Pro at $20/month, Max at $200, and Teams at $80/month plus $40 per developer seat.
Sentiment splits cleanly around the 19 March 2026 pricing overhaul, which scrapped credits for daily and weekly quotas and lifted Pro from $15 to $20. Developers who stay inside quota report a fast, capable agentic editor; heavy users on r/windsurf complain about hitting the quota wall before it refreshes, and review roundups across Trustpilot, G2 and Product Hunt agree that billing support is mostly bots when something goes wrong.
For a directory reader the practical advice is simple. If you want free Copilot-style completion in your existing IDE, the old Codeium plugin experience is alive and still excellent value. If you're evaluating the agentic editor, judge it as Devin under Cognition's roadmap — the Codeium name is now three rebrands deep in the history section.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
Notable facts
- Codeium supports more IDEs than any other AI code tool — over 40, including obscure editors like Helix, Lapce, and JupyterLab.
- The individual tier is genuinely free with no rate limits or daily caps, funded entirely by enterprise sales — Codeium does not run ads or sell user data.
- Codeium's context engine analyses up to 200 files in your repository simultaneously, rather than just the current open file, for more relevant completions.
Frequently asked questions
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