Cursor vs Devin Desktop
Two catalogue entries side by side. Not a benchmark: we have not tested these products against each other.
Catalogue checked September 23, 2026.
Cursor
Plan price reference: The X Subscription: Plus US$8/month, Premium US$30, Super US$100, Ultra US$200; legacy Cursor plans have separate eligibility and billing
- Extra usage beyond the plan is billed
- Can suggest incorrect code
Devin Desktop
Plan price reference: Pro $20/month; the free tier includes a limited agent quota with unlimited completions and inline edits
- Capabilities differ by agent: App Deploys is Cascade-only and is not supported by Devin Local
- The free tier is a limited agent quota, not unlimited agent work
Monthly and annual billing are different commitments: the annual figure is a prepayment, and an annual equivalent is not a monthly price. Nothing on this page is a test of output quality, and the list below names the official sources this entry uses with the date each was read - check them against the plan and the use you have in mind.
| What you are deciding | CursorCursor | Devin DesktopCognition |
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| What it is for | The AI-powered code editor | The agentic IDE, formerly Windsurf |
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| Pricing model | Freemium | Freemium |
| Plan pricing referenceFrom the vendor page listed, for the plan named. Not the lowest price worldwide: billing cycle, region and taxes change it. | The X Subscription: Plus US$8/month, Premium US$30, Super US$100, Ultra US$200; legacy Cursor plans have separate eligibility and billing | Pro $20/month; the free tier includes a limited agent quota with unlimited completions and inline edits |
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| Price | Not establishedCurrent new-customer prices are in USD under the Terms: Plus $8/month or $80/year, Premium $30/month or $300/year, Super $100/month or $1000/year, Ultra $200/month or $2000/year, before tax. Complete purchase-market and account/channel eligibility remain unestablished, so these are not global checkout guarantees.Source: Cursor - models and current subscription · Cursor - legacy plans and migration · Cursor - Terms of Service | Not establishedThe registered record gives plan amounts and billing cadence, but the applicable purchase market/region and full account/channel conditions were not established. These are not asserted as a current global purchasable quote.Source: Devin - plan prices |
| Availability | Not establishedmacOS, Windows and Linux downloads are documented, and model access depends on provider region policies; BYOK cannot override a blocked provider region. A complete Cursor service/purchase country matrix remains unestablished, and actual network access was not tested.Source: cursor official cur-download · cursor official cur-regions · Cursor - Terms of Service | Not establishedEntry, integration or deployment routes are registered, but the applicable geographic access conditions were not established. No worldwide availability is inferred from these routes.Source: Devin - Devin Desktop FAQ · Devin - Devin Local |
| Commercial use | Not establishedThe Terms assign Anysphere rights in Suggestions to the user while retaining use and third-party-rights restrictions. This does not establish commercial permission for every actual output or third-party component.Source: Cursor - Terms of Service | Not establishedCognition assigns output rights to customers to the extent permitted by law and permits service use for internal business purposes. Full per-tier permission for commercial distribution of generated code, including applicable third-party rights, is not established by this clause alone. |
| Training on your data | DocumentedAnysphere will not use content to train, or allow any third party to train, any AI models, unless you have explicitly agreed to the use of content for training. Section 1.2 defines content as your inputs together with the suggestions returned to you, and section 1.3 points to controls in the service for managing that preference.Source: Cursor - Terms of Service | DocumentedRead on 12 October 2026. States that customer data may be used for model training, that paid customers can opt out (on Teams plans only an administrator can), and that opting out enables zero data retention with model providers. The individual Windsurf sign-up redirects to this document.Source: Cognition - platform terms (Windsurf) |
| API billing | Not establishedThe current pricing FAQ says Grok API is billed separately outside the weekly pool; Plus excludes Cloud Agents and Premium adds them. The API overview does not settle every current programmatic endpoint’s inclusion and fees, and the distinct Grok FAQ pool wording is not assumed equivalent.Source: Cursor - models and current subscription · Cursor - API overview | Not establishedExtra Desktop usage is billed at model API list prices. Devin's v3 API documents organization/enterprise service users and sessions attributed to user usage, but the exact programmatic API entitlement and fee coverage of each personal Desktop subscription remain unestablished.Source: Devin - quotas · Official windsurf reference |
| Export formats | Not establishedThe official API/download pages establish clients and programmatic access, but not downloadable report/chat file containers and plan/surface conditions. Code file access alone does not prove a report-export matrix.Source: Cursor - API overview · cursor official cur-download | Not establishedDevin Desktop: specific downloadable output file formats and applicable surface/plan boundaries were not established by the registered source statements. No contrary conclusion about the capability is inferred. |
| Usage limits | DocumentedCursor is sold as part of The X Subscription, covering Grok, Cursor and X. Its included Cursor-model usage pool is shared across Grok and Cursor and refreshes weekly. Third-party models are excluded; Premium and higher use them from prepaid credits at API list prices, with an additional Cursor Token Rate on Teams and Enterprise. The Grok API is billed separately and does not draw from the pool. This differs from legacy Cursor’s two monthly pools and establishes no fixed coding-task count. New Cursor customers start on The X Subscription. Existing legacy Cursor plans keep their price and features until changed or cancelled, and switching to The X Subscription is permanent. Legacy Pro is listed at $20 per month and old Teams at $40 per user per month; legacy plans use two monthly pools with extra usage billed in arrears, whereas the new subscription uses a weekly pool and prepaid extra usage. Legacy amounts are not presented here as a generally purchasable new-customer offer.Source: Cursor - models and current subscription · Cursor - legacy plans and migration | DocumentedDaily and weekly quotas vary with model, context and tokens; overage can be bought at API rates. Free waits for a reset, and completions and inline edits are unlimited rather than the agent. Cascade-only beta, mainly for public previews, publishing through Netlify and uploading project code to Cognition first; Devin Local does not support it. Free: one deploy a day with up to one unclaimed site; Pro: five of each.Source: Devin - quotas · Devin - App Deploys |
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Entry read against its sources on September 23, 2026. |
Entry read against its sources on September 23, 2026. |
What the listings already say
Taken from this site's own entries, so the wording follows the vendors' terms rather than ours; it is our summary of their published material, not their text.
How does Devin Desktop compare to Cursor?
Both are editors with an agent, but their plan names and allowances must be checked separately. Devin Desktop’s recorded Pro price is US$20 a month. Cursor’s $20 Pro figure applies to eligible legacy plans; new customers use The X Subscription, whose applicable price is not established here. Devin Desktop states that it imports VS Code and Cursor configuration and adds SSH and dev containers; Cursor states that it is built on VS Code, so existing extensions and keybindings carry over, with a JetBrains integration as an alternative surface. Devin Desktop's deployment feature uploads project code to Cognition and its local agent still needs the vendor backend; Cursor's documented standard requests pass through the Cursor backend. This is what each listing states, not a measured comparison.