Blackbox AI vs GitHub Copilot vs Windsurf

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

	Blackbox AI Multi-model coding agent that also copies code out of videos. Visit	GitHub Copilot The most widely adopted AI pair programmer, native to GitHub Visit	Windsurf Agentic AI IDE — rebranded Devin Desktop by Cognition, June 2026 Visit
RECATOOLS Score	6 / 10	8.3 / 10	7.8 / 10
Capability	6	8	8
Value for money	7	8	7.5
Ease of use	7	9	8
ASEAN readiness	6	7	6
API quality	5	7	6
Pricing	Freemium	Freemium	Freemium
Free tier	Free code completions and limited searches	Free plan open to all GitHub users (not just students/OSS maintainers)	—
Paid from	$9.99/month (Pro)	Pro $10/mo, Pro+ $39/mo, Max $100/mo, Business $19/user/mo, Enterprise $39/user/mo	Free; Pro $20/month; Max $200/month; Teams $80/month + $40/seat/month
Has API	✗	✗	✗
Open source	✗	✗	✗
Free to use	✓	✗	✗
Users	10m+ developers	4.7m+ paid subscribers	Not reliably disclosed
Founded	2021	—	2021
Maker	Ahmad Al-Masri, Andrew Tan	Microsoft	Varun Mohan, Douglas Chen
Verdict	Blackbox AI is a coding assistant built around access to 300+ AI models through a "Chairman" routing layer that dispatches a task to several models and picks the best output, plus an autonomous CyberCoder agent for multi...	For teams already on GitHub, Copilot remains the lowest-friction AI coding assistant: inline completions, chat, multi-file edits and an agent mode, native in VS Code, JetBrains and GitHub itself, with a choice of GPT, Cl...	Windsurf is now Devin Desktop: Cognition acquired the Codeium-built IDE in July 2025 and folded it into the Devin brand on June 2, 2026. The product itself remains a strong agentic editor — VS Code-derived, with the Rust...
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