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codai vs Windsurf (Devin Desktop)
What each one is, how it is priced, where data lives, and when Windsurf (Devin Desktop) is the better pick.
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In short
Windsurf, now Devin Desktop from Cognition, is an AI IDE with daily and weekly usage quotas priced in USD. codai is a model billed per verified task in EUR, used from the editor or app you already have.
When Windsurf (Devin Desktop) is the better pick
Pick Windsurf if you want an AI IDE with in-house SWE models, an adaptive router at a fixed token rate and a wide third-party model catalogue.
| Dimension | codai | Windsurf (Devin Desktop) | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it is / deployment | Managed gateway (SaaS). Runs on Cloud Run in GCP europe-west1 (Belgium). One public model name: codai. | Desktop IDE with the Cascade agent and Devin Local, a JetBrains plugin and Devin CLI. | |
| Open source | No. Not open source and not self-hostable. | Not stated on the pages read; the terms bar decompiling or creating derivative works. | |
| Wire formats | OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses and Anthropic Messages. | Could not be verified: the bring-your-own-key docs page returned 404. Eligible ChatGPT plans can pay for GPT model usage. | |
| Pricing model | Monthly plans in EUR: Free (5 verified tasks), BYOK €5, Starter €40 (33 tasks), Builder €100 (83), Team €300 (250). Overage €1.20 per verified task; unverified tasks are billed at raw token cost. | Free; Pro $20 a month; Max $200 a month; Teams from $80 a month (full seat $40). Pro has daily and weekly quotas, Max weekly only; extra usage is charged “at API list prices”. | |
| Data residency | Gateway and database in the EU (europe-west1, Belgium). Model inference region depends on the upstream deployment. | No residency option is stated. Data may be processed “throughout the world, including the EU, UK and the US”; the cloud environment runs on AWS. | |
| Routing | codai routes each request to the model best suited to it among Anthropic's current Claude models and fails over between approved deployments; the x-codai-routed-to header names the model that answered. | A model picker with in-house SWE models, Claude, GPT, Gemini and others; the Adaptive router costs a fixed $0.50 in / $2.00 out per million tokens. | |
| Prompt caching | On by default for every request. | Cache input prices are listed per model; the quota page notes that requests to the same model “leverage caching”. | |
| MCP | Remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP) with OAuth 2.1. | MCP over stdio, Streamable HTTP and SSE, with OAuth; a 100-tool limit in Cascade; allowlists and registries for Teams. | |
| Billing currency / invoices | Prices and charges in EUR; invoices issued by the Romanian seller. | Prices in USD; billing via Stripe, where you can add a tax ID and download invoices. | |
| Company HQ | IMS SRL (Interactive Media Solutions S.R.L.), Târgu Jiu, Romania. | Cognition AI, Inc., San Francisco, CA, New York law; legacy users may be contracted with Exafunction, Inc. |
Where Windsurf (Devin Desktop)’s own pages disagree
The platform terms set a minimum age of 13; the privacy policy says users “must be at least 18 years old”.
windsurf.com/pricing redirected to a pricing page that returned 404, so the prices above come from the Devin docs.
Sources
- windsurf.com
- docs.codai.ro/docs/gateway
- codai.ro/subprocessors
- docs.devin.ai/desktop/cascade/mcp
- windsurf.com/llms.txt
- cognition.com/legal/platform-terms-of-service
- docs.codai.ro/docs/gateway/wire-formats
- docs.devin.ai/admin/billing/self-serve
- docs.devin.ai/desktop/models
- codai.ro/pricing
- docs.devin.ai/desktop/accounts/quota
- codai.ro/security
- cognition.com/legal/privacy-policy
- docs.devin.ai/admin/security
- docs.codai.ro/docs/gateway/models
- docs.devin.ai/desktop/adaptive
- docs.codai.ro/docs/gateway/headers
- docs.codai.ro/docs/gateway/clients
- codai.ro/imprint
- docs.devin.ai/desktop/accounts/usage
Facts from each vendor’s public pages on October 19, 2026; tell us at [email protected] if something changed.