Devin is paid, with no free tier. Windsurf is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it. Devin is listed under Autonomous Coding Agents and Windsurf under AI IDEs & Editors, so they overlap rather than match exactly. Neither is ranked above the other — Flocci carries no sponsored placement.
Devin is paid, with no free tier and is listed for most autonomous cloud coding agent. Windsurf is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it and is listed for agentic IDE with the Cascade flow. Devin sits in Autonomous Coding Agents, Windsurf in AI IDEs & Editors.
Windsurf is the cheaper starting point: it is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, while Devin is paid, with no free tier. Pricing tiers here come from the catalog, not from a promotional page.
Choose Devin if you need most autonomous cloud coding agent; choose Windsurf if you need agentic IDE with the Cascade flow. Flocci AI Tools does not rank one above the other — it shows both feature sets side by side and lets the requirement decide.
| Devin | Windsurf | |
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| Pricing tier | Paid | Free tier + paid plans |
| Free to start | No | Yes |
| Category | Code & Development | Code & Development |
| Type | Autonomous Coding Agents | AI IDEs & Editors |
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| Tags | agent, devin, cognition, autonomous, pull request, cloud | ide, windsurf, cascade, agent, cognition, free |
| Website | devin.ai | windsurf.com |
| Full page | Devin details → | Windsurf details → |
| Alternatives | Devin alternatives → | Windsurf alternatives → |