Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) vs Cursor vs Trae vs Zed
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
Cognition's agentic IDE, renamed from Windsurf in June 2026
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Cursor
AI code editor and coding agents, now sold inside The X Subscription
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Trae
ByteDance's AI IDE and agent, with a free plan and higher paid prices...
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Zed
Fast open-source code editor with built-in AI agents
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.8 / 10 | 8.6 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 | 7.5 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free: a light agent quota and limited model availability, with unlimited Tab completions and inline edits | Free plan: limited agent and Chat requests and a starter allowance for Cursor's coding agents, no card listed | Free plan: Auto mode only, limited usage allowance, 5,000 autocompletions/month and 2 concurrent cloud tasks; SOLO mode requires a paid plan | Personal: free forever, 2,000 accepted edit predictions, unlimited use with your own API keys or external agents such as Claude Agent and Codex CLI |
| Paid from | Pro $20/month, Max $200/month, Teams $80/month plus $40 per seat | $8/month (Plus, Grok models only), Premium $30, Super $100, Ultra $200 | Pro $20/mo ($200/yr); Lite $8/mo in select markets incl. MY, ID, TH, VN, PH | $10/month (Pro, $5 of tokens included) — Business $30/seat/month |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | Not reliably disclosed | 1m+ developers | — | — |
| Founded | 2024 | 2023 | 2025 | 2023 |
| Maker | Cognition AI, Inc. | SpaceX | ByteDance | — |
| Verdict | 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... |
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... |
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... |
Zed is a very fast native editor with AI built into the core: its own agent, parallel agents, Zeta edit predictions and an open protocol that runs Claude Code, Codex and other agents inside the editor. Real-time collabor... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.