Trae vs Cursor vs Qoder vs Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Trae
ByteDance's AI IDE and agent, with a free plan and higher paid prices...
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Cursor
AI code editor and coding agents, now sold inside The X Subscription
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Qoder
Alibaba's agentic coding platform on Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM and Kimi
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Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
Cognition's agentic IDE, renamed from Windsurf in June 2026
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.8 / 10 | 8.6 / 10 | 7.3 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free plan: Auto mode only, limited usage allowance, 5,000 autocompletions/month and 2 concurrent cloud tasks; SOLO mode requires a paid plan | Free plan: limited agent and Chat requests and a starter allowance for Cursor's coding agents, no card listed | Free plan: 2-week Pro trial with 300 credits, limited completions and next-edit suggestions, basic models for limited messages, bring-your-own-key | Free: a light agent quota and limited model availability, with unlimited Tab completions and inline edits |
| Paid from | Pro $20/mo ($200/yr); Lite $8/mo in select markets incl. MY, ID, TH, VN, PH | $8/month (Plus, Grok models only), Premium $30, Super $100, Ultra $200 | $20/mo (Pro, 2,000 credits) | Pro $20/month, Max $200/month, Teams $80/month plus $40 per seat |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | 1m+ developers | — | Not reliably disclosed |
| Founded | 2025 | 2023 | 2025 | 2024 |
| Maker | ByteDance | SpaceX | Alibaba Group | Cognition AI, Inc. |
| Verdict | Trae is a polished agentic IDE with a broad model picker and genuine ASEAN fit — a Singapore operator, regional data storage, local payment methods and a cheaper Lite plan in several Southeast Asian markets. It is no lon... |
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... |
Qoder is Alibaba's serious bid for the agentic-coding market, now a family of IDE, JetBrains plugin, CLI, cloud agents and tools for non-programmers, with Repo Wiki generating documentation of your codebase. Two correcti... |
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.