GitHub Copilot vs Tabnine vs Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) vs Amazon Q Developer
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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Tabnine
Private, self-hostable AI coding assistant, now part of Tricentis
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Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
Cognition's agentic IDE, renamed from Windsurf in 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 | 8.3 / 10 | 7.4 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 | 6.5 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Enterprise | Freemium | Subscription |
| 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 | — | Free: a light agent quota and limited model availability, 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 | $10/month (Pro, 1,500 AI Credits); Business $19 and Enterprise $39 per seat a month | $39/user/month, annual subscription (last published Sep 2026); now quoted by Tricentis sales | Pro $20/month, Max $200/month, Teams $80/month plus $40 per seat | 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 | 4.7m+ paid subscribers | 1m+ developers | Not reliably disclosed | — |
| Founded | 2021 | 2018 | 2024 | 2024 |
| Maker | GitHub, Inc. | Tricentis | Cognition AI, Inc. | Amazon (Amazon Web Services, 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,... |
Tabnine's case is deployment control: air-gapped, VPC or on-premises installation, no retention of customer code, models trained on permissively licensed code, and a Context Engine that grounds agents in an organisation'... |
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... |
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.