Sourcegraph Cody vs GitHub Copilot vs Tabnine vs Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Sourcegraph Cody
Sourcegraph's codebase-aware coding assistant, now sold only to enterp...
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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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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.5 / 10 | 8.3 / 10 | 7.4 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Enterprise | Freemium | Enterprise | 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 | — | Free: a light agent quota and limited model availability, with unlimited Tab completions and inline edits |
| Paid from | $16K minimum annual contract (Sourcegraph Enterprise, AI credits included) | $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 |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | 200k+ developers | 4.7m+ paid subscribers | 1m+ developers | Not reliably disclosed |
| Founded | 2023 | 2021 | 2018 | 2024 |
| Maker | Sourcegraph | GitHub, Inc. | Tricentis | Cognition AI, Inc. |
| Verdict | Cody's strength was always context: answers grounded in symbols and usages from across an organisation's repositories, not just the open file. That still holds for Sourcegraph Enterprise customers working in VS Code, Jet... |
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... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.