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Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) vs You.com

Features, pricing, ratings, and pros and cons, side by side.

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Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)

Agent-first IDE for running local and cloud coding agents in one place

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Verdict

Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) is listed under Coding AI and You.com under Developer Tools. Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) scores higher in FinderAtlas's editorial review (8.4 vs 8.2 out of 10). Both have a free plan or trial. Only Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) is available on Windows, macOS and Linux. Only You.com is available on Web, iOS and Android and offers an API.

Best overall

Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)

  • Software developers
  • Engineering teams
  • Enterprise engineering organizations
  • Teams running several coding agents

Choose Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) if

  • You want a tool built for managing multiple coding agents.
  • Free plan with unlimited Tab completions and inline edits.
  • Full IDE that stays compatible with VS Code and Windsurf extensions.

Choose You.com if

  • You want a tool built for grounding LLM and agent outputs in live web data, RAG pipelines, cited research reports, adding web search to MCP-enabled coding agents.
  • Clear per-call pricing with no seat, minimum or platform fee.
  • Keyless free MCP tier (100 queries per day) makes prototyping frictionless.
Best for beginners
You.com
Best for business
Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)

Features

19 features compared.

  • Agent Command Center
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Available
    You.com
    Not available
  • Spaces
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Available
    You.com
    Not available
  • Full IDE
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Available
    You.com
    Not available
  • Devin Local
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Available
    You.com
    Not available
  • Agent Client Protocol support
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Available
    You.com
    Not available
  • Tab and Supercomplete
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Available
    You.com
    Not available
  • Fast Context
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Available
    You.com
    Not available
  • Devin Cloud handoff
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Available
    You.com
    Not available
  • MCP and extensions
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Available
    You.com
    Not available
  • SWE-2 model
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Available
    You.com
    Not available
  • Web Search API
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Not available
    You.com
    Available
  • Contents API
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Not available
    You.com
    Available
  • Answer API
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Not available
    You.com
    Available
  • Research API
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Not available
    You.com
    Available
  • Finance Research API
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Not available
    You.com
    Available
  • Knowledge for Web Search
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Not available
    You.com
    Available
  • Hosted MCP Server and Agent Skills
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Not available
    You.com
    Available
  • Enterprise Security
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Not available
    You.com
    Available
  • Inference Router
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Not available
    You.com
    Available

Pricing

Plans as listed by each vendor. Check their sites for current prices.

  • Pricing model
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Freemium
    You.com
    Freemium
  • Free plan
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Yes
    You.com
    Yes
  • Starting price
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    $0
    You.com
    $0
  • Plans
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    5 plans
    You.com
    3 plans

Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) plans

  • Free

    $0

    Light quota to code with agents

    • Limited model availability
    • Unlimited inline edits
    • Unlimited Tab completions

  • Pro

    Most popular

    $20/month

    Increased quotas and full model availability

    • Frontier models from OpenAI
    • Claude
    • Gemini and SpaceXAI
    • Open source models
    • Free use of SWE-2
    • Devin Cloud access
    • Extra usage at API pricing

  • Max

    $200/month

    Significantly higher quotas for power users

    • Everything in Pro
    • Significantly higher quotas

  • Teams

    $80/month

    $80 per month for the team plan plus $40 per month per full dev seat

    • Everything in Pro
    • Up to 200 users
    • Shared collaboration
    • Centralized billing
    • Admin dashboard with analytics
    • Priority support

  • Enterprise

    Custom/custom

    Contact sales for organization-wide deployment

    • Highest priority support
    • Dedicated account management
    • SAML/OIDC SSO
    • Centralized admin controls
    • Dedicated deployment option

You.com plans

  • Free

    $0

    Keyless prototyping through the MCP server

    • No API key
    • account or credit card needed
    • 100 Web Search API queries per day via MCP

  • Pay as you go

    Most popular

    $5/1K calls

    Usage-based billing for production; $5 is the Web Search rate per 1,000 calls

    • No minimums
    • seats or platform fee
    • all endpoints
    • SDKs and MCP
    • auto top-up

  • Enterprise

    Custom/custom

    Enterprise teams needing compliance and capacity

    • Zero Data Retention
    • SOC 2
    • DPA-ready
    • custom QPS and dedicated capacity
    • SLA-backed support

Our ratings

Scored out of 10 by the Finder Atlas editorial team. Last reviewed November 2026.

Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
8.4overall
You.com
8.2overall

Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) leads in 0 categories and You.com in 0, with 1 tied.

  • Multi-agent Management

    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    8.7
    You.com
    Not rated

  • Multi-file Agentic Edits

    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    8.5
    You.com
    Not rated

  • Editor Experience

    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    8.4
    You.com
    Not rated

  • Model Choice

    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    8.6
    You.com
    Not rated

  • Value for Money

    Tied
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    7.8
    You.com
    7.8

  • Ease of Use

    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Not rated
    You.com
    8.0

  • Feature Depth

    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Not rated
    You.com
    8.3

  • Performance & Speed

    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Not rated
    You.com
    8.4

  • Documentation & Support

    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Not rated
    You.com
    8.5

Scores weigh documented features, plan value, platform coverage, integrations and user feedback. A missing score means we have not rated that area yet.

Pros and cons

Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)

Pros

  • Free plan with unlimited Tab completions and inline edits
  • Full IDE that stays compatible with VS Code and Windsurf extensions
  • One view for managing local, cloud and third-party agents
  • Supports ACP agents such as Codex, Claude Agent and OpenCode
  • Available on macOS, Windows and Linux

Cons

  • Paid plans have daily and weekly usage quotas, and extra usage is billed at API pricing
  • Pro rose to $20 per month, and Max costs $200 per month
  • The rename and the move to devin.ai changed menus, docs and branding, and some names such as the JetBrains plugin still say Windsurf
  • Cascade was retired in favour of Devin Local, so Cascade workflows had to migrate

You.com

Pros

  • Clear per-call pricing with no seat, minimum or platform fee.
  • Keyless free MCP tier (100 queries per day) makes prototyping frictionless.
  • Range of endpoints from raw search to cited multi-step research on one index.
  • Documented MCP server, agent skills and plugins for many coding agents.
  • Enterprise options include zero data retention and SOC 2.
  • Published latency figures per endpoint help with capacity planning.

Cons

  • Per-call billing makes costs harder to predict than a flat subscription, and top Research tiers reach $1,200 per 1,000 calls.
  • No consumer plans are published on the website, so anyone looking for the old chat assistant gets no clear pricing.
  • The consumer search and chat experience is no longer promoted, so it is a poor fit for casual users.
  • Free tier is capped at 100 Web Search queries per day.

Platforms

  • Web
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Not supported
    You.com
    Supported
  • Windows
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Supported
    You.com
    Not supported
  • macOS
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Supported
    You.com
    Not supported
  • iOS
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Not supported
    You.com
    Supported
  • Android
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Not supported
    You.com
    Supported
  • API
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Not supported
    You.com
    Supported
  • Browser Extension
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Not supported
    You.com
    Not supported
  • Linux
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Supported
    You.com
    Not supported
  • JetBrains Plugin
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Supported
    You.com
    Not supported

Integrations

Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)

15 integrations
  • Slack
  • Linear
  • Notion
  • Figma
  • Sentry
  • Stripe
  • Vercel
  • Datadog
  • Atlassian
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Bitbucket
  • Codex
  • Claude Agent
  • OpenCode

You.com

11 integrations
  • Claude Code
  • Cursor
  • Codex CLI
  • GitHub Copilot CLI
  • Windsurf
  • Gemini CLI
  • VS Code
  • JetBrains IDEs
  • Zed
  • OpenCode
  • Jan

Company

  • Company
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Cognition AI
    You.com
    You.com
  • Founded
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    2023
    You.com
    2020
  • Headquarters
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    San Francisco, CA
    You.com
    Palo Alto, CA
  • Monthly users
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    1M+
    You.com
    Not listed
  • Listing
    Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)
    Claimed
    You.com
    Claimed

Frequently asked questions

Is Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) better than You.com?

It depends on your workflow. Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) is built for managing multiple coding agents. You.com is built for grounding LLM and agent outputs in live web data, RAG pipelines, cited research reports, adding web search to MCP-enabled coding agents.

What are the key feature differences between Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) and You.com?

Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf): Agent-first IDE for running local and cloud coding agents in one place. You.com: Real-time web search, research and answer APIs that ground AI agents in live data.

Does Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) or You.com have a free plan?

Yes, both do. Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) is freemium and You.com is freemium, and each has a free plan or trial.

Which is cheaper, Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) or You.com?

Both can be used for free. Paid plans differ in limits and features, so compare the tiers in the pricing table above.