Windsurf Is Now Devin Desktop: What Changed for Free-Tier Users
On June 2, 2026, every running copy of Windsurf turned into Devin Desktop overnight. Here's exactly what changed in the free plan, pricing, and the Cascade agent's shutdown timeline.
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Windsurf did not announce a rename. It just happened. On June 2, 2026, any open copy of the editor that restarted came back as Devin Desktop, Cognition's coding IDE, with the same account, the same plan, and the same keybindings still attached. If you use it daily and missed the news, here is what actually changed and what it means for your free-tier usage.
What actually happened
Cognition, the company behind the autonomous coding agent Devin, acquired the Windsurf team in mid-2025 after Windsurf's earlier acquisition talks with OpenAI fell apart. For almost a year the two products ran in parallel under separate names. That ended on June 2, 2026, when the rebrand shipped as a normal background update, with no migration wizard and no way to opt out. Users who hadn't restarted their editor in a while opened it one morning to a new name and a new icon, with everything else untouched.
The product's official web presence moved too. The old windsurf.com address now points to Devin Desktop's real home at devin.ai, folding the editor into the same site as Cognition's flagship Devin agent product.
The free plan, as it stands today
The free plan itself did not get worse. Devin Desktop still gives you unlimited Tab completions and inline edit suggestions with no credit card required, which was Windsurf's biggest selling point before the rename. What changed is the agent underneath it.
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Unlimited Tab completions and inline edits, plus a light daily quota of agentic Devin Local sessions |
| Pro | $20/mo | Higher usage limits, access to Claude and GPT model families |
| Max | $200/mo | Highest usage ceiling for heavy daily use |
| Team | $80/mo + $40/seat | Pooled usage across a shared organization |
Cognition hasn't published an exact number for the free plan's daily agent quota, only describing it as "light." That's worth flagging on its own: Windsurf's old pricing page used to spell out hard numbers, and the vaguer language suggests the company wants room to adjust the limit later without another headline.
Why the price already moved once before this
The rebrand isn't the first change worth knowing about. Back on March 19, 2026, Cognition restructured the old Windsurf pricing, dropping the previous per-action credit system in favor of daily and weekly quotas, and raising the Pro plan from $15 to $20 a month. That $20 figure now matches Cursor's Pro tier almost exactly, and given how directly the two editors compete for the same developers, that's probably not an accident.
The financial upside for Cognition looks real. Less than two months after folding Windsurf's user base into its own product line, the company raised more than $400 million at a $10.2 billion valuation, a jump industry coverage tied directly to the deal's early payoff in enterprise revenue.
What's happening to Cascade
Cascade, Windsurf's original built-in agent, isn't gone yet, but it's on a clock. Devin Local has replaced it as the default local agent in the editor, while Cascade sticks around as a secondary option only through July 2026. After that date, anyone still relying on Cascade-specific workflows or custom rules will need to move over to Devin Local, since Cognition hasn't committed to keeping the older agent running past the cutoff.
How to check which version you're actually running
If you're not sure whether your install already flipped over, here's the fastest way to check:
- Open the app and look at the title bar or the About panel. If it says Devin Desktop instead of Windsurf, you're on the new branding.
- Check your plan under Settings. Free, Pro, Max, and Team should read the same as your old Windsurf plan; nothing should have quietly downgraded.
- Open a Cascade session if you had one saved. If it still loads, you have until the end of July 2026 before you need to move workflows over to Devin Local.
- If your app never auto-updated, download the current installer directly from devin.ai rather than the old windsurf.com link, which may not stay live indefinitely.
The bigger picture
Windsurf isn't the only AI coding tool that changed shape this year, it's just the most abrupt about it. Several other editors and assistants pulled back their free tiers entirely instead of just changing their name, which we cover in a [separate breakdown of every AI coding free tier that died in 2026](/blog/ai-coding-tools-that-killed-their-free-tiers-in-2026-and-what-still-works). If you're shopping for a replacement rather than sticking with Devin Desktop, our [Cursor tool page](/tools/cursor) and the direct [Devin Desktop vs Cursor comparison](/compare/devin-desktop-vs-cursor) lay out how the two free tiers actually differ.
If you already had Windsurf, nothing you paid for got worse. You just got a new name and a due date on Cascade. If you're evaluating it fresh, treat Devin Desktop as a direct Cursor competitor and compare the free tiers side by side before picking one.