Continue.dev vs FauxPilot vs Tabnine vs Windsurf
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Continue.dev
Open-source AI coding assistant — discontinued, acquired by Cursor
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FauxPilot
Self-hosted Copilot-API server on your own GPU — now dormant
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Tabnine
AI code completion with privacy-first deployment options
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Windsurf
Agentic AI IDE — rebranded Devin Desktop by Cognition, June 2026
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.4 / 10 | 4.2 / 10 | 7.4 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source | Paid | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | Fully free | — | — |
| Paid from | — | — | Code Assistant $39/user/mo; Agentic Platform $59/user/mo (annual-billing only) | Free; Pro $20/month; Max $200/month; Teams $80/month + $40/seat/month |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | — | 20000+ GitHub stars | 1m+ developers | Not reliably disclosed |
| Founded | — | 2022 | 2018 | 2021 |
| Maker | — | FauxPilot Community | Dror Weiss, Eran Yahav | Varun Mohan, Douglas Chen |
| Verdict | Note: Continue.dev is no longer actively maintained.Continue.dev was a leading open-source AI code assistant for VS Code and JetBrains, letting developers plug in any model — cloud APIs or fully local LLMs via Ollama — r... |
FauxPilot proved in 2022 that you could run a Copilot-style completion server on your own hardware — Salesforce CodeGen models on NVIDIA Triton, speaking GitHub Copilot's own API — which made it the reference point for t... |
Tabnine's bet is now explicit: enterprise privacy or nothing. Free and individual plans died in April 2025, entry is $39 per user per month on annual-only billing, and the March 2026 Context Engine launch cemented the en... |
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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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.