GitHub Copilot vs Kodezi vs Pieces vs Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
GitHub Copilot
GitHub's coding assistant and agents, now billed in AI Credits
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Kodezi
Debugging-first AI assistant built around the Chronos fix model
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Pieces
On-device work memory with AI recall, summaries and an MCP server
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Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
Cognition's agentic IDE, renamed from Windsurf in June 2026
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.3 / 10 | 6.4 / 10 | 7.2 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Subscription | Freemium |
| Free tier | Copilot Free: 2,000 inline suggestions a month plus limited chat and agent usage, no card required; free Student plan for verified students | 25 credits a day, plus 25 starter credits | No free plan; 7-day free trial (card required) and a 14-day money-back guarantee | Free: a light agent quota and limited model availability, with unlimited Tab completions and inline edits |
| Paid from | $10/month (Pro, 1,500 AI Credits); Business $19 and Enterprise $39 per seat a month | $9.99/month (Pro) | $18.99/user/month for Pro (billed monthly; $169.99/year) | Pro $20/month, Max $200/month, Teams $80/month plus $40 per seat |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | 4.7m+ paid subscribers | 200k+ developers | 100k+ developers | Not reliably disclosed |
| Founded | 2021 | 2022 | 2020 | 2024 |
| Maker | GitHub, Inc. | Ishraq Khan | Tsavo Knott, Josh Bodner | Cognition AI, Inc. |
| Verdict | For teams already on GitHub, Copilot is still the lowest-friction way to add AI to the whole workflow: completions in almost every major editor, agents that work from issues and open pull requests, reviews on github.com,... |
Kodezi bet the company on debugging rather than autocomplete, and Chronos — a language model trained specifically for bug fixing, announced in December 2025 but not yet released, claiming 67.3% fix accuracy on the compan... |
Pieces is a capable personal memory layer: on-device capture across apps, a multi-turn agent over that history since version 6.0, scheduled summaries, local models, bring-your-own keys and a 39-tool MCP server that gives... |
Devin Desktop, the former Windsurf, is still a strong AI editor: unlimited Tab completions even on the free plan, a capable local agent, cloud agents on Pro, and the ability to run Codex or Claude Agent alongside Devin t... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.