Code Llama vs StarCoder 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.
Code Llama
Meta's 2023 code models on Llama 2, frozen but still downloadable
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StarCoder
BigCode's self-hostable code models with traceable training data
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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 | 6.5 / 10 | 6 / 10 | 8.3 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free weights after accepting Meta's terms (gated on Hugging Face), under the Llama 2 Community License with its use conditions | Free weights on Hugging Face under BigCode OpenRAIL-M (commercial use allowed with use restrictions); StarCoder 1 requires accepting the licence first | 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 | — | — | $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 | 1m+ downloads | 100k+ researchers and developers | 4.7m+ paid subscribers | Not reliably disclosed |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 | 2021 | 2024 |
| Maker | Meta Platforms | BigCode (Hugging Face and ServiceNow) | GitHub, Inc. | Cognition AI, Inc. |
| Verdict | Code Llama was Meta's answer to closed coding models in 2023: base, Python and Instruct variants from 7B to 70B, inputs up to 100,000 tokens, and fill-in-the-middle on the 7B and 13B models. It still downloads, gated on... |
StarCoder2 is a capable mid-size code model whose real strength is provenance: training data filtered to permissive and unlicensed code, a public search index for attribution, and a licence that spells out what is and is... |
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.