Claude Code vs Cursor vs GitHub Copilot vs Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Claude Code
Anthropic's coding agent for the terminal, IDEs, desktop, web and Slac...
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Cursor
AI code editor and coding agents, now sold inside The X Subscription
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GitHub Copilot
GitHub's coding assistant and agents, now billed in AI Credits
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Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
Cognition's agentic IDE, renamed from Windsurf in June 2026
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| RECATOOLS Score | 9 / 10 | 8.6 / 10 | 8.3 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Paid | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | Free plan: limited agent and Chat requests and a starter allowance for Cursor's coding agents, no card listed | 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 | $17/month (Claude Pro billed annually, $20 monthly), with Claude Code included | $8/month (Plus, Grok models only), Premium $30, Super $100, Ultra $200 | $10/month (Pro, 1,500 AI Credits); Business $19 and Enterprise $39 per seat a month | Pro $20/month, Max $200/month, Teams $80/month plus $40 per seat |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | WAU doubled in early 2026 (one of the most-loved coding tools) | 1m+ developers | 4.7m+ paid subscribers | Not reliably disclosed |
| Founded | 2025 | 2023 | 2021 | 2024 |
| Maker | Anthropic | SpaceX | GitHub, Inc. | Cognition AI, Inc. |
| Verdict | Claude Code hands substantial engineering work to an agent that plans, edits across a repository, runs tests and opens pull requests, and it now reaches well beyond the terminal, into IDEs, the desktop app, the web and S... |
Cursor remains one of the strongest AI editors: agents that work across a whole codebase, cloud agents and automations, and Bugbot reviews, with Grok and Composer models included in a weekly allowance. The October 2026 m... |
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,... |
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.