StarCoder vs Windsurf
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
StarCoder
Open-source code LLM, 80+ languages, OpenRAIL commercial-use license
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Windsurf
Agentic AI IDE — rebranded Devin Desktop by Cognition, June 2026
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Freemium |
| Free tier | Fully free | — |
| Paid from | — | Free; Pro $20/month; Max $200/month; Teams $80/month + $40/seat/month |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | 100k+ researchers and developers | Not reliably disclosed |
| Founded | — | 2021 |
| Maker | Hugging Face / ServiceNow | Varun Mohan, Douglas Chen |
| Verdict | StarCoder, from the BigCode project (Hugging Face and ServiceNow), is an openly licensed code-generation model family — now on its second generation, StarCoder2, in 3B/7B/15B sizes trained on The Stack v2's 600+ language... |
Windsurf is now Devin Desktop: Cognition acquired the Codeium-built IDE in July 2025 and folded it into the Devin brand on June 2, 2026. The product itself remains a strong agentic editor — VS Code-derived, with the Rust... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.