Cursor vs Devin Desktop

52 facts per product, each taken from the vendor's own public pages and linked to its source. 11 rows differ and are highlighted; the better documented value in a row is bold. “Not documented” means the vendor's pages do not state it — it is never counted as a “No”. Devin Desktop is also known as Windsurf.

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Verdict by buyer type

Solo developers who want to start free
Devin Desktop

Both have a free plan. Devin Desktop's Free plan includes unlimited Tab completions and inline edits, with a light agent quota that resets daily and weekly, on the SWE-1.6 model only. Cursor's Hobby plan has limited Agent requests and a monthly Tab allowance, after which Tab suggestions pause.

Individual developers paying yearly
Cursor

Cursor Pro is $16 per month billed yearly or $20 monthly. Devin Desktop Pro is $20 per month, and its pricing page lists no yearly price.

Teams buying seats
Cursor

Cursor's Teams plan is $32 per user per month billed yearly or $40 monthly, with SSO included. Devin Desktop's Teams plan is $80 per month for the team plus $40 per month for each full seat, billed monthly, and new Teams plans do not include SSO, which is Enterprise-only.

Developers who steer agents from a phone
Cursor

Cursor for iOS, on iPhone and iPad, directs and reviews cloud agents; there is no Android app yet. Devin Desktop's cloud agent runs from the Devin web app, and its pages document no mobile app.

Developers who bring their own API keys
Cursor

Cursor accepts OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Azure OpenAI and AWS Bedrock keys for chat models; requests still pass through Cursor's backend and Tab stays on Cursor's own models. Devin Desktop's current models, pricing and quota pages do not document own API keys.

Enterprises that need a VPC deployment
Devin Desktop

Devin Desktop's Enterprise plan deploys in your virtual private cloud; the vendor states that fully air-gapped on-prem versions are still being finalized. Cursor states it does not offer on-premises deployment: the service runs on AWS, with PrivateLink connectivity, and only cloud agents' tool execution can move to machines you manage.

Security and compliance buyers
Cursor

Both document SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001. Cursor also signs HIPAA BAAs on Enterprise, its Privacy Mode gives zero data retention on every plan including free, and SSO starts on Teams. Devin Desktop's pages do not document HIPAA, customer data may be used for training by default until a paid customer opts out, and SSO is Enterprise-only.

Pricing

 CursorDevin Desktop
Free planYes
Hobby plan; no credit card required.
Yes
Free individual plan; no third-party payment needed.
Free plan limitsLimited Agent requests; access to Composer; monthly Tab allowance
Help center: Hobby covers Agent, Chat and Tab completions with the Auto model and a smaller model set; Tab suggestions pause once the monthly allowance is used; free accounts cannot start Cloud Agents.
Light agent quota with daily/weekly reset, limited model availability, unlimited inline edits and Tab completions
The models page states free-tier users only have access to SWE-1.6.
Free trial (days)Not documented
Not documented on vendor pages
Not documented
Not documented on vendor pages. Trials of paid plans are described as promotional offers for a subset of eligible customers, with no stated length.
Trial requires credit cardNot documented
Not documented on vendor pages
Not documented
Not documented on vendor pages
Cheapest paid plan, billed annually (per user / month)$16.00
Pro (individual plan), billed yearly. An India-only Start plan (₹649/mo, billed monthly in INR) is listed in the help center, not on the pricing page.
Not documented
Not documented on vendor pages. The pricing page lists monthly prices only.
Cheapest paid plan, billed monthly (per user / month)$20.00
Pro (individual plan), billed monthly. An India-only Start plan (₹649/mo, INR) is listed in the help center, not on the pricing page.
$20.00
Pro plan (individual).
Highest listed-price plan, billed annually (per user / month)$160.00
Ultra (individual plan), billed yearly. Highest per-seat team price is Teams Premium at $96/user/mo billed yearly.
Not documented
Not documented on vendor pages. No annual prices are listed; the highest listed monthly price is Max at $200/month.
Minimum paid seatsNot documented
Not documented on vendor pages
Not documented
Not documented on vendor pages
Custom-priced enterprise planYes
Enterprise is contact-sales; priced per seat with an included usage allotment and optional pre-committed usage.
Yes
Enterprise is priced through sales ("Let's talk").

Platforms

 CursorDevin Desktop
Web appYes
Browser access at cursor.com/agents for starting, following and reviewing cloud agents.
Yes
The Devin cloud agent (Devin Cloud, from Pro) and Devin Review are used in the Devin web app at app.devin.ai. The Devin Desktop editor itself is a desktop application.
Runs on WindowsYes
Desktop app for Windows x64 and ARM64 (user or system installer); CLI via WSL or native PowerShell.
Yes
x64 and arm64 installers; minimum Windows 10 (64-bit).
Runs on macOSYes
Desktop app for Apple silicon, Intel and Universal builds; CLI via install script.
Yes
Apple Silicon and Intel builds; macOS versions with Apple security update support (10.15 not supported).
Runs on LinuxYes
Desktop app as .deb, RPM and AppImage for x64 and ARM64; CLI via install script.
Yes
tar, deb (apt) and rpm packages.
iOS appYes
Cursor for iOS on iPhone and iPad (iOS/iPadOS 26.0+) directs and reviews cloud agents and Remote Control sessions; no editor or terminal. Starting agents needs a paid plan.
Not documented
Not documented on vendor pages
Android appNo
No Cursor app for Android; an Android version is planned with no release date. The separate Grok Bot app (a general-purpose agent included with paid Cursor plans) is on Google Play.
Not documented
Not documented on vendor pages
Browser extensionNot documented
Not documented on vendor pages
Yes
Windsurf Chrome extension (code suggestions in notebooks such as Colab); listed among older plugins in maintenance mode.

Where you code with it

 CursorDevin Desktop
Own standalone code editorYes
Desktop app with an agent-first Agents Window plus a classic editor that runs VS Code extensions from the Open VSX registry and imports VS Code settings, keybindings and extensions. The vendor pages do not call it a fork.
Yes
Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) is derived from VS Code: the vendor calls its user data directory VS Code-derived and says it is backwards-compatible with VS Code; extensions come from an Open VSX mirror.
Extension for VS CodeNot documented
Not documented on vendor pages
Yes
Windsurf Plugin (formerly Codeium) for VS Code, in maintenance mode; provides Autocomplete, Chat and Command, not the Devin Desktop agents.
Plugin for JetBrains IDEsYes
Through the Agent Client Protocol: install Cursor from the ACP registry in the JetBrains AI Chat panel (AI Assistant plugin, 2025.1+). Paid Cursor plan required. Provides the agent (model choice, file edits, terminal commands); Tab autocomplete is not listed.
Yes
Windsurf JetBrains plugin (IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm and others) is in maintenance mode and its Cascade agent is being deprecated; the vendor recommends running Devin inside JetBrains IDEs over ACP instead.
Command-line (terminal) agentYes
Cursor CLI (`agent`): interactive, Plan and Ask modes plus headless mode for scripts, CI and GitHub Actions. Installs on macOS, Linux, Windows (WSL and native PowerShell).
Yes
Devin CLI, installed separately; shares the Devin Local agent harness and the same Devin plan usage.
Other editors supportedJetBrains IDEs (via ACP); any editor or IDE through the Cursor CLI in a terminal; custom ACP clients
The Xcode integration is an MCP bridge that lets Cursor's agent build, test and edit Xcode projects from Cursor; it is not a plugin inside Xcode.
Visual Studio, Vim, Neovim, Emacs, Xcode, Sublime Text, Eclipse, Jupyter Notebook
Through Windsurf Plugins, which the vendor lists as older plugins in maintenance mode.

Coding assistance

 CursorDevin Desktop
Inline code completion (autocomplete)Yes
Tab. Unlimited on Pro, Pro+ and Ultra; Hobby has a monthly Tab allowance. Tab always uses Cursor's own models, even with your own API keys.
Yes
Tab (Supercomplete or classic Autocomplete mode) with Tab to Jump and Tab to Import; unlimited on every plan including Free.
Agent that edits across multiple filesYes
Agent, Plan, Ask and Debug modes in the editor, Agents Window, CLI, web and iOS.
Yes
Devin Local is the default local agent; Cascade is the legacy agent. Third-party ACP agents (Codex, Claude Agent, OpenCode, Junie, Gemini CLI) can also run inside Devin Desktop on Pro, Max and Teams.
Agent runs terminal commandsYes
Run Mode sets when commands run automatically, ask for approval, or run in a sandbox.
Yes
Runs with user permission, controlled by allow/ask/deny rules (Devin Local) or auto-execution levels (Cascade); Teams and Enterprise admins can cap the level and set team-wide allow/deny lists.
Cloud / background agentsYes
Cloud Agents run in isolated cloud VMs, in parallel, from desktop, web, iOS, Slack, GitHub and Linear; Automations run agents on schedules or triggers. Included on paid plans (Pro and up); free accounts cannot start them. Tool execution can run on Self-Hosted Machines.
Yes
Devin Cloud, included with Pro, Max and Teams and drawing on the shared plan quota; Enterprise admins must enable it. Local subagents can also run in the background.
Pull request code reviewYes
Bugbot reviews PRs automatically or on demand. Usage-based billing: individual plans draw from included usage, then on-demand; Teams bill from on-demand spend. Not included in the India-only Start plan.
Yes
Devin Review, a separate Devin product in the web app, reviews GitHub, GitLab and Azure DevOps pull requests and draws on the same Devin plan usage. Inside the editor, Quick Review reviews local agent changes (SWE-check model free on all tiers).
Codebase indexing / semantic code searchYes
Local Instant Grep index for exact and regex code search, plus an Explore subagent for broad searches. Cursor states it does not upload code or store codebase embeddings for search.
Yes
Local codebase indexed by default; Pro gets higher indexing limits; Teams and Enterprise can also index remote repositories.
MCP (Model Context Protocol) serversYes
Pricing page lists MCPs, skills and hooks among Pro features; Enterprise admins can allowlist or block MCP servers.
Yes
stdio, Streamable HTTP and SSE servers with OAuth; Devin Local adds an MCP marketplace. Enterprise users must turn MCP on in settings, and admins can allowlist servers.
Project rules / custom instruction filesYes
Project rules in .cursor/rules (.mdc files), AGENTS.md, user rules, and enforceable team rules on Teams and Enterprise.
Yes
Global, workspace (.devin/rules/, legacy .windsurf/rules/ and .windsurfrules), AGENTS.md and admin-deployed system rules; .cursor/rules can be imported.
Checkpoints to roll back agent editsYes
Created automatically before significant Agent changes; stored locally, separate from Git; restoring reverts files only.
Yes
Documented for the legacy Cascade agent (reverts cannot be undone). Not documented for the default Devin Local agent, which offers worktree sessions instead.

Models and usage

 CursorDevin Desktop
User can choose the AI modelYes
Pick a model or use Auto (Cursor Router). Hobby gets a smaller model set; paid plans unlock all models; Enterprise admins can restrict models.
Yes
Model picker plus the Adaptive router and Fusion; Free tier is limited to SWE-1.6; team admins can restrict models.
Model families offeredCursor models (Grok 4.7, 4.6, 4.5; Composer 2.5), OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, and others
Grok models are listed as Cursor models in the Cursor Models usage pool. The docs model table also lists Meta, Moonshot and Z.ai models.
Cognition SWE models (SWE-2, SWE-1.7, SWE-1.6), Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT, Google Gemini, xAI, open-source models (GLM, Kimi)
The pricing page names the xAI provider "SpaceXAI".
Bring your own API keyYes
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Azure OpenAI and AWS Bedrock keys; chat models only (Tab stays on Cursor models). Requests still pass through Cursor's backend. Individual plans: not counted against included usage. Teams/Enterprise: $0.25 per million tokens Cursor Token Rate still applies. Enterprise admins can disable BYOK. Cursor's zero data retention does not cover BYOK requests.
Not documented
Not documented on vendor pages. The current models, pricing and quota pages do not offer own API keys; only a May 2025 changelog entry mentions an Anthropic key option for Claude 4 models.
Local / self-hosted modelsNot documented
Not documented on vendor pages
Not documented
Not documented on vendor pages
How paid-plan usage is limitedMonthly included model usage in two pools (Cursor Models; Other Models at API prices), then optional on-demand pay-as-you-go at API rates
Pro+ has 3x and Ultra 20x Pro Agent limits; Teams Premium has 5x Standard. Usage resets monthly without rollover. Teams and Enterprise add a $0.25 per million tokens Cursor Token Rate on third-party models. Enterprise offers pooled usage.
Daily and weekly token-based quota; extra usage billed at API list prices
Cost per request depends on the model's token price; free models do not count against the quota. Pro, Max and Teams can buy extra usage; Free waits for the next reset.
Open-source clientNo
Proprietary client. The public github.com/cursor/cursor repository holds a README and issue templates, not the app source. Some auxiliary repos are open source (e.g. plugins, SDK bridge, Terraform provider).
Not documented
Not documented on vendor pages

Privacy and team controls

 CursorDevin Desktop
Zero data retention optionYes
Applies with Privacy Mode on, available on every plan including free; on by default for Enterprise, enforceable org-wide by Teams and Enterprise admins. Exceptions: your own API keys, models that require provider retention (admin approval needed), and prompts flagged by providers' abuse classifiers.
Yes
Not the default: paid-plan customers who opt out of training get Zero Data Retention with the model providers (on Teams only an admin can opt out).
Code excluded from model trainingYes
Requires Privacy Mode. With Privacy Mode off, Cursor may use code data to train its models. Terms: Anysphere does not train on your content unless you explicitly agree.
Yes
Conditional: by default data may be used for training; paid plans can opt out (on Teams only an admin); Enterprise data is never used for training without prior written consent.
Self-hosted or on-premises deploymentNo
No on-premises deployment; the service runs on AWS. Cloud Agent tool execution can move to Self-Hosted Machines you manage, while Cursor still runs the agent loop and inference. AWS PrivateLink and Cloudflare Tunnel private connectivity are available.
Yes
Enterprise only per the pricing comparison. The vendor states that fully air-gapped, on-prem versions of Devin Desktop and Devin CLI are still being finalized.
Team admin dashboard and usage analyticsYes
Teams plan and up: centralized billing and administration with usage analytics. Enterprise adds SCIM, audit logs, AI Code Tracking API and Conversation Insights.
Yes
Teams and Enterprise. Team analytics include percent of code written by AI, lines written, tool calls and consumption.

Integrations and security

 CursorDevin Desktop
Listed integrations370
Plugins listed in the Cursor Marketplace (MCP servers, skills and tool bundles from third parties and Cursor), counted as unique plugin listings; excludes 27 automation templates. Separately, the docs cover 11 native integrations: GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, Linear, Notion, JetBrains and Xcode.
10
Named integrations on the Devin integrations overview: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, Linear, PagerDuty, Databricks. MCP marketplace servers are not counted. Slack/Teams, Linear/Jira and GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket start on Pro.
Public APIYes
Cloud Agents API (beta, all plans), TypeScript and Python SDKs (all users); Admin, Analytics, AI Code Tracking and Bugbot APIs for Enterprise teams.
Yes
Devin API (sessions, knowledge, playbooks) is included from Pro. The separate Devin Desktop analytics and usage API is Enterprise only.
Single sign-on (SSO)Yes
SAML/OIDC SSO on Teams and Enterprise at no extra cost; SCIM provisioning on Enterprise.
Yes
Enterprise only (SAML/OIDC, plus SCIM). Teams customers who bought the former SSO add-on keep it.
Two-factor authenticationNot documented
Not documented on vendor pages
Not documented
Not documented on vendor pages. MFA is described only as inherited from the SSO identity provider (FedRAMP deployment guide).
SOC 2 reportYes
SOC 2 Type II; report available on request via trust.cursor.com.
Yes
SOC 2 Type II; the Trust Center lists a SOC 2 Type 2 report.
ISO 27001 certificationYes
ISO/IEC 27001:2022; also ISO/IEC 42001:2023 and AIUC-1.
Yes
The Trust Center (trust.cognition.ai) lists ISO/IEC 27001:2022.
HIPAA compliance offeredYes
Enterprise only: signed BAA required, with Privacy Mode enabled and locked org-wide. The standard Terms of Service prohibit sending HIPAA-regulated data otherwise.
Not documented
Not documented on vendor pages

Support and company

 CursorDevin Desktop
Support channelsCommunity forum, email (hi@cursor.com), help center with a signed-in support request form; priority support on Enterprise
Individual and Teams plans: community and standard support. Enterprise: first human response within 8 hours (critical) or 24 hours (standard).
Email (support@cognition.ai), support tickets, Discord; priority support on Teams; dedicated Slack Connect channel on Teams and Enterprise; dedicated account team on Enterprise
Plan gating for Slack Connect and account team is from the pricing comparison table.
24/7 supportNot documented
Not documented on vendor pages
Not documented
Not documented on vendor pages
Vendor (legal entity)Anysphere, Inc.
Cursor's blog announced on Aug 14, 2026 that Cursor has been acquired by SpaceX; the Terms of Service still name Anysphere, Inc.
Cognition AI, Inc.
Users who enrolled in Windsurf under Exafunction, Inc. contract with Exafunction, Inc. unless their license has been assigned to Cognition AI, Inc.
FoundedNot documented
Not documented on vendor pages
Not documented
Not documented on vendor pages
HeadquartersSan Francisco, CA, USA
Correspondence address in the Terms of Service: 2261 Market Street STE 86466, San Francisco, CA 94114. The vendor pages do not name a headquarters.
San Francisco, CA
Company address given in the Terms: 550 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94107.

Listed plans

Cursor planBilled annuallyBilled monthly
Hobby
Per month
Free individual plan. No credit card required; limited Agent requests; access to Composer.
FreeFree
Pro
Per month
Individual plan. $16/mo billed yearly, $20/mo billed monthly. Extended limits on Agent, access to frontier models, MCPs, skills and hooks, Cloud agents, Grok Bot access; Bugbot on usage-based billing. Includes monthly usage in two pools (Cursor Models; Other Models at API prices), then optional on-demand usage at API rates.
$16.00$20.00
Pro+
Per month
Individual plan. $48/mo billed yearly, $60/mo billed monthly. Everything in Pro, plus 3x Pro limits on Agent and higher Grok Bot usage limits.
$48.00$60.00
Ultra
Per month
Individual plan. $160/mo billed yearly, $200/mo billed monthly. Everything in Pro, plus 20x Pro limits on Agent, highest Grok Bot usage limits and priority access to new features.
$160.00$200.00
Teams (Standard seat)
$32/user/mo billed yearly, $40/user/mo billed monthly. Centralized team billing and administration, team marketplace for rules, skills and plugins, cloud agents and automations with shared team context, agentic code reviews with Bugbot, usage analytics, team-wide privacy mode, SAML/OIDC SSO. Per-seat included usage; on-demand usage beyond it.
$32.00$40.00
Teams (Premium seat)
$96/user/mo billed yearly, $120/user/mo billed monthly. Same Teams features with 5x Standard limits on Agent and higher Grok Bot usage limits. Standard and Premium are seat types within the Teams plan.
$96.00$120.00
Enterprise
Custom (contact sales)
Everything on Teams plus pooled usage, invoice/PO billing, SCIM seat management, repository/model/MCP access controls, auto-run, browser and network controls, audit logs and service accounts, AI code tracking API, priority support and account management.
CustomCustom
Devin Desktop planBilled annuallyBilled monthly
Free
Per month
Individual plan. Light quota to code with agents, limited model availability, unlimited inline edits and unlimited Tab completions. When the quota runs out, usage waits for the next daily or weekly reset.
FreeFree
Pro
Per month
Individual plan. Only a monthly price is listed; no annual price is shown. Increased daily/weekly quotas, full model availability (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, xAI and open-source models), cloud agents (Devin Cloud), extra usage purchasable at API pricing. Free SWE-2 use through October 10, 2026 per the pricing page (the models page says October 15, 2026).
Not offered$20.00
Max
Per month
Individual plan. Only a monthly price is listed; no annual price is shown. Everything in Pro plus significantly higher quotas.
Not offered$200.00
Teams
Per team / month, plus $40 / month per full dev seat
$80/month platform fee for the team plus $40/month per full seat; each full seat includes its own quota and access to Devin Desktop. Up to 200 users, centralized billing, admin dashboard with analytics, priority support. Only monthly prices are listed. SSO is not included for new Teams plans.
Not offered$80.00
Enterprise
Custom
Contact sales. Adds SAML/OIDC SSO, centralized enterprise admin controls, dedicated deployment option (VPC), dedicated account management and highest priority support.
CustomCustom

Per user per month unless the plan states otherwise, as listed on each vendor's pricing page.

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