Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) 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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Zed
Fast open-source code editor with built-in AI agents
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.8 / 10 | 7.5 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free: a light agent quota and limited model availability, with unlimited Tab completions and inline edits | 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 | $10/month (Pro, $5 of tokens included) — Business $30/seat/month |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | Not reliably disclosed | — |
| Founded | 2024 | 2023 |
| Maker | Cognition AI, Inc. | — |
| 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... |
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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