Windsurf pricing: Pro is $20, Max $200, and a team seat costs $40

How much does Windsurf cost?

Windsurf costs $0 on Free, $20 a month on Pro and $200 on Max, as of November 2026. Teams starts at $80 a month. Since the rename, windsurf.com/pricing redirects to Cognition's Devin pricing page, and the billing docs fill in the Teams math. We read both on 8 November 2026. US prices, before tax:

There's no yearly price for a new buyer. Neither the pricing page nor the billing docs list one, though Cognition's quota docs mention renewal dates for people already on annual Pro or Teams. Pro is the cheapest plan with Claude, GPT and Gemini. Free gets "Limited model availability."

Is Windsurf now Devin Desktop?

Yes. Cognition renamed Windsurf to Devin Desktop on 2 June 2026, and the plans carried over unchanged. Cognition, the maker of the Devin coding agent, signed to buy Windsurf on 14 July 2025. Its announcement says the deal "includes Windsurf's IP, product, trademark and brand."

The rename post says "Your plan, pricing, extensions, and other features remain the same." The Devin Desktop page puts it in one line: "Devin Desktop is the new name for Windsurf." If you had it installed, it updated itself over the air. The Windsurf plugin for JetBrains IDEs still ships under its old name, and Windsurf's Cascade agent gave way to Devin Local, which Cognition says is "up to 30% more token efficient."

This is why so many Windsurf price pages disagree. Some still show the old credit plans or a $15 Pro, and Cognition's own pricing page never says the word Windsurf. Any Windsurf plan you buy today is a Devin plan. This page is about the desktop editor. If it's the cloud agent you want to price, that's on Devin pricing.

How do Windsurf quotas and extra usage work?

Windsurf gives each paid plan a daily and a weekly quota, and past it you pay API list prices for the model you pick. The quota docs say it "resets on a daily and weekly basis, based on the calendar date." On Pro and Teams, the billing docs say "The daily allowance is more than 1/7 of the weekly," so a weekend sprint can use more of the week. Max has no daily cap.

Cognition doesn't publish the size of any quota in tokens or dollars. It says "Cost per message varies based on the model used, the task size and complexity, and the reasoning required." If you're on Free, you wait for a reset. Pro, Teams and Max can buy extra usage, and the docs say "Quota limits never limit your extra usage." Purchased credits "never expire" and roll over month to month, and you can set auto-reload. Fast modes cost more, and if you turn on the fast mode for GPT-5.6 Sol, it bills at twice the standard rate.

Here's what extra usage costs on the models Cognition prices in its model docs, per million tokens, read 8 November 2026. Claude models bill at Anthropic's list price, which is $2 in and $10 out for Sonnet 5.5 on Anthropic's pricing page.

Free models don't touch your quota at all, per the quota docs. That makes SWE-2 the cheapest way to stretch a Pro plan this month.

What does a typical month of Windsurf cost?

A typical month of Windsurf costs $20 on Pro, because Cognition's FAQ says "Most users will never hit their limits." A heavy month costs more. Say one bad week pushes you past the Pro quota by 5 million input tokens and 500,000 output tokens. Here's that overage on each model, with no cached tokens, at the rates above:

The token counts are our example, not a measurement, so scale them to your own usage. The model choice moves the bill threefold on the same work. If your overage passes $180 most months, Max at $200 starts to make sense, but Cognition doesn't say how much more quota Max holds. Cached input costs a tenth or less of these input rates on most models, so real agent sessions often land lower.

How much does Windsurf Teams cost?

Windsurf Teams costs $40 a month per full seat, with an $80 monthly minimum for every team. The billing docs say "every Teams account pays at least $80/month." Below two seats, Cognition charges the rest of the $80 as prepaid on-demand credits. So one seat costs $80 and leaves $40 of credits, and zero seats buys $80 of credits:

For the extra $20 a seat, you get the admin side of it: central billing, an analytics dashboard, priority support and credits that the whole team shares. Each full seat gets "their own generous quota." Teams can also add flex seats for free, which draw only on the shared credits and skip Devin Desktop. SSO isn't on new Teams plans. The quota docs say it's "now an Enterprise-only feature."

What happened to Windsurf credits?

Windsurf dropped credits for quotas on 19 March 2026. Cognition's pricing post from 18 March explains why: "Our previous credit-based billing model charged the same rate for both simple and complex requests." The same post raised Pro to $20 and added Max at $200.

If you had old credits, they were turned into dollars. Add-on credits sold at $0.04 each, so 250 credits cost $10, and the quota docs say they "are converted into a dollar amount of extra usage at the rate you paid for them." You can ask support to refund that balance at any time. Existing Pro subscribers kept $15 a month and Teams subscribers kept $30 a seat, both "indefinitely." So if you see a $15 Windsurf Pro today, it's a legacy plan you can't buy.

Is Windsurf cheaper than Cursor?

Windsurf Pro is cheaper than Cursor for Claude, GPT and Gemini, and Cursor is cheaper for Grok. Cursor's cheapest plan with those third-party models is Premium at $30, and its pricing docs bill them "at the model's API list price from the first request." Windsurf Pro puts them inside a $20 quota. Cursor Plus at $8 runs only Cursor's own Grok and Composer models. Cursor vs Windsurf works through a month of Claude in each editor and the team math.

What does Windsurf cost next to the rest of your AI stack?

Windsurf Pro plus ChatGPT Plus and Claude Pro comes to $60 a month, at $20 each on OpenAI's and Anthropic's pages on 8 November 2026. Move to Windsurf Max and the same stack is $240. That's before any extra usage.

Whizi, which publishes this page, can replace that chat pair but not Windsurf. Whizi Pro costs $29.99 a month and puts Claude, GPT and Gemini in one chat, plus pictures, video and music. Credits per message vary by model. That's under the $40 the two chat plans cost together. Whizi has no coding agent, no IDE and no API, so keep Windsurf for the editor work, and keep Claude Pro if you use Claude Code. Cheapest way to use Claude and GPT compares the chat routes, and one subscription for all AI models shows what a single plan covers.