Claude Code vs Windsurf (now Devin Desktop)

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	Claude Code Anthropic's official agentic CLI; plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, subagents.	Windsurf (now Devin Desktop) Agentic AI IDE acquired by Cognition in 2025 and rebranded Devin Desktop in June 2026.
Category	harness	harness
Vendor type	commercial	commercial
Pricing	subscription	freemium
Strengths	+ Mature primitives (skills, hooks, plugins, MCP, subagents) + Official Anthropic-supported harness + Strong ecosystem of community plugins/marketplaces	+ Full IDE experience with agent, tab completion, and multi-file edits integrated + Backed by Cognition's proprietary SWE coding models plus frontier model access + Free tier available; settings and extensions carried over from Windsurf
Tradeoffs	− Terminal-first UX may not fit non-engineer users	− Closed source and tied to Cognition's platform and credit quotas − 2025-2026 ownership changes and the Devin rebrand forced workflow migrations (e.g. Cascade deprecation)
Used in stacks	4	0