Cursor vs Codeium: Features, Pricing and Verdict

Cursor starts at $8 a month and Codeium is now Devin Desktop, with Pro at $20. This comparison covers current pricing, features, and the verdict for coders.

By Galactic News Editorial · Published 2026-11-11T16:29:38+00:00 · Updated 2026-11-11T16:29:38+00:00

Cursor vs Codeium: Features, Pricing and Verdict

Cursor and Codeium both promise an AI coding assistant, but the comparison has changed. Codeium no longer exists under that name. It became Windsurf in April 2025, and Windsurf became Devin Desktop in June 2026 under Cognition. This comparison covers the current Cursor against Devin Desktop, the product Codeium became, with current prices and features.

Codeium is now Devin Desktop: what changed

Codeium launched in 2022 as a free autocomplete tool from Exafunction. It renamed itself Windsurf on April 4, 2025, and grew into an agentic editor built around the Cascade agent. Cognition, the company behind Devin, acquired Windsurf in July 2025. On June 2, 2026, the Windsurf editor became Devin Desktop in an over-the-air update. The old Codeium site now redirects to Devin.

The product changed with the name. The Cascade agent reached end of life on July 1, 2026. Devin Local is now the built-in agent. Devin Desktop is positioned as the local front end to Devin's cloud agents. Existing Windsurf subscribers kept their old prices: Pro at $15 a month and Teams at $30 per developer seat, indefinitely.

Cursor pricing in 2026

Cursor is a standalone code editor built on the VS Code foundation. Its current plans are Free, Plus, Premium, Super, Ultra, Teams, and Enterprise. The old Pro and Business tiers are gone. Prices below are from Cursor's pricing page.

Free costs $0 and includes limited agent and chat requests. Plus costs $8 a month and is the introductory plan. It uses a shared usage pool and includes Grok models only. Premium costs $30 a month and is the most popular plan. It includes four times the usage of Plus, cloud agents and automations, code hosting, AI code reviews, and third-party models at API list price. Super costs $100 a month with fifteen times the usage of Plus and priority model access at peak times. Ultra costs $200 a month with fifty times the usage of Plus and the earliest access to new products and models.

Teams starts at $30 or more per user a month. It adds centralized billing and administration, usage analytics, team-wide privacy settings, SAML and OIDC single sign-on, and mix-and-match seat types. Enterprise is custom priced and adds invoice billing, SCIM seat management, granular spend controls, audit logs, and priority support.

Usage works as a pool shared across Cursor and Grok. The allowance refreshes weekly, so one heavy day never wipes out a whole month. If you reach the included usage, you can buy top-offs or wait for the refresh. Privacy mode can be switched on in settings or enforced by a team admin. When it is on, Cursor guarantees code data is not used for training.

Devin Desktop pricing in 2026

Devin Desktop runs on Cognition's plans, which also cover Devin's cloud agent and command-line tool. Free costs $0. It includes a light agent quota, limited model availability, and unlimited inline edits and Tab completions. Pro costs $20 a month. It adds increased quotas, full model availability including OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini frontier models, access to cloud agents, and up to 10 concurrent sessions. Extra usage is billed at API pricing.

Max costs $200 a month and adds much higher quotas with no daily cap. Teams costs $80 a month for the team plus $40 a month per full developer seat. It includes collaboration, centralized billing, analytics, and priority support. A five-developer team pays $280 a month, not $200. Enterprise is custom priced.

Quotas refresh daily and weekly. The free tier keeps the thing Codeium was known for: unlimited Tab completions with no payment.

Cursor vs Codeium (Devin Desktop): feature comparison

Both tools now sell usage pools, not flat request counts. The numbers that matter are the entry price, the free tier, and whether cloud agents are included. Cursor's usage refreshes weekly. Devin Desktop's quotas refresh daily and weekly. Both let you buy extra usage when you run out, and both keep a free tier with no card required.

Free access for students

Cursor offers free Pro access to verified students through its students page. That removes the $30 a month cost entirely for coursework. Devin Desktop has no student plan of its own, but its free tier already includes unlimited Tab completions and inline edits. Students who want frontier models without paying can use the Devin Desktop free tier and accept the light agent quota. For everyone else, the free tiers are the right place to start.

Which one fits your workflow?

Choose Cursor if you want one editor for everything: tab completion, chat, and agents in a VS Code-style workspace. Its $8 Plus plan is the cheapest paid entry in this comparison, though it only includes Grok models. Premium at $30 a month is the straightforward pick for daily use, with cloud agents and code reviews included.

Choose Devin Desktop if you want cloud agents that work on tasks on their own, or if you value frontier models at the entry paid tier. Pro at $20 a month includes OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini models plus Devin Cloud. The free tier is generous for inline completion, with unlimited Tab completions and no card required.

Try both free tiers first. They cost nothing and show you which editor feels right before you pay.

Bottom line

Cursor wins on entry price and on being a complete editor. Devin Desktop, the product Codeium became, wins on included frontier models and cloud agents at $20 a month. If your work is mostly inline completion, Devin Desktop's free tier is hard to beat. If you want one editor for the whole job, Cursor Premium at $30 a month is the simpler choice.