CodeGeeX vs GitHub Copilot vs Windsurf vs Amazon Q Developer
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
CodeGeeX
Zhipu AI's free Copilot alternative, big in China's dev scene
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GitHub Copilot
The most widely adopted AI pair programmer, native to GitHub
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Windsurf
Agentic AI IDE — rebranded Devin Desktop by Cognition, June 2026
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Amazon Q Developer
AWS's AI coding assistant, closed to new users and sunsetting in 2027
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.4 / 10 | 8.3 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 | 6.5 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Subscription |
| Free tier | Free individual use | Free plan open to all GitHub users (not just students/OSS maintainers) | Free: a light agent quota, with unlimited Tab completions and inline edits | Closed to new users since 15 May 2026; existing Builder ID users keep 50 agentic requests/mo and 1,000 lines/mo of Java upgrades |
| Paid from | — | 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 | Pro $19/user/mo, existing subscriptions only; new sign-ups closed 15 May 2026, EOS 30 Apr 2027 |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | 500k+ developers | 4.7m+ paid subscribers | Not reliably disclosed | — |
| Founded | — | — | 2021 | 2024 |
| Maker | Zhipu AI | Microsoft | Cognition (acquired July 2025) | Amazon (Amazon Web Services, Inc.) |
| Verdict | Free with no usage caps is CodeGeeX's whole argument, and it's a decent one: completion, code translation and in-IDE chat via VS Code (1.1M+ installs) and JetBrains plugins, running on the open-sourced CodeGeeX4-ALL-9B m... |
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... |
Amazon Q Developer is no longer something to adopt: AWS closed it to new sign-ups in May 2026 and ends the IDE plugins and paid subscriptions on 30 April 2027, steering developers to Kiro, where the newest coding models... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.