How does Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) compare with the alternatives?
Cursor runs its own agent and includes SSO on Teams, while Devin Desktop runs Cognition's agents next to third-party ones and keeps SSO for Enterprise. Each is a desktop editor forked from VS Code with agents built in. Agent strategy and the identity controls your plan needs decide it.
Copilot adds agents to the editors and GitHub workflow a team already has, and its cloud agent works from issues and pull requests on GitHub.com. Devin Desktop asks engineers to switch to its editor and manages local and cloud agents from there. Choose Copilot to keep current editors, and Devin Desktop for one editor that runs several agents.
Choose Codex if engineers keep their editors: it comes with ChatGPT plans and runs in ChatGPT's apps, a CLI, an IDE extension, and Codex Cloud. Choose Devin Desktop for a dedicated editor that runs Codex CLI as one of several agents.
Both come from Cognition, and self-serve plans fund them from one quota. Devin Desktop keeps agents on the engineer's machine inside an editor, and Devin runs each session on its own cloud VM that keeps working after the laptop closes. The choice is which tasks should run in the cloud.
