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Devin
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Cognition’s cloud software engineer; Windsurf is now Devin Desktop.
Devin is Cognition’s autonomous software engineer: a cloud agent with its own machine, plus Devin Desktop (the former Windsurf IDE), a CLI, and a review product. Windsurf.com now serves Devin Desktop. We list this once. Cascade was the old local agent; Cognition’s own blog says Devin Local replaced it.
- Model independence
- Multi-model
- Deployment
- Cloud
- Open source
- No
- License
- Proprietary
- Pricing model
- Mixed
- Added / updated
- 19 Aug 2026 / 19 Aug 2026
Editorial take
Devin is still the cultural reference for “cloud engineer,” and as of 2026 it also owns the Windsurf IDE under a new name. That merger is why this directory has no Windsurf slug. You are buying Cognition’s computer and Cognition’s agent. Named design partners on the desktop page are vendor quotes, not case studies we audited.
Strengths
- Cloud VM plus desktop command center plus CLI is a full execution/sandbox story.
- Issue-to-PR is the original product shape, not an afterthought.
- Single listing for Windsurf and Devin avoids a duplicate product.
Limitations
- Closed source, cloud-shaped, Cognition-hosted computers.
- Windsurf-era settings and Cascade mental models are in migration; re-read docs.
- We do not repeat Cognition marketing metrics as production evidence.
Compare
- vs factory — Category-capturing factory platform versus the original cloud software engineer.