# Windsurf (Devin Local)

> IDE-first, agent inside the editor, Devin Local reviews the diff before push. Different agent than Cursor: Devin Local is more autonomous on multi-step tasks. The trade-off vs Cursor: less hunk-by-hunk granularity, more 'kick it off and review what it did'.

Source: https://aistack.sh/stack/ship-code-windsurf
Category: Code · Workflow
Level: Intermediate
Last verified by a human: 2026-05-05

## The tools

### Windsurf — Plan + write + review

- Pricing: Free · $20/mo Pro · $200/mo Max · Teams from $80/mo with $40/seat · Enterprise custom
- Site: https://windsurf.com
- Why this one: Devin Local plans across files and runs the plan with less hand-holding than Composer. After the agent finishes, ask it to review its own diff before you push, it's the same model that wrote the code, but the second pass catches its own omissions.
- Swap in instead: Cursor, Claude Code
- More: https://aistack.sh/tool/windsurf

## Monthly cost

### $0/mo — Solo OSS (small)

- Windsurf: Free

### $15/mo — Solo, daily PRs (medium)

- Windsurf: $15 Pro

### $175/mo — 5-dev team (heavy)

- Windsurf: $175 (5× $35 Teams)

## Workflow

### 1. Open in Windsurf (Windsurf)

VS Code fork — keymap and extensions carry over.

### 2. Devin Local for multi-step work (Windsurf)

Hand it the plan from Claude (or describe the change directly). Devin Local plans + executes; you review the result, not each step.

### 3. Self-review before push (Windsurf)

In Devin Local, ask 'review the diff for issues before I push'. The agent rereads its own work and flags missed edge cases. Catches ~70% of what an external reviewer would. Push, then open the PR.

## What it produced

**Backend dev, weekly comparison**

Ran the same refactor tickets through Windsurf and Cursor. Windsurf shipped ~20% faster on the multi-file work because the hunk-by-hunk overhead in Composer slowed each step. Lost a percentage point on accuracy on tighter edits: Cursor's per-hunk control caught a regression Devin Local missed.

## Pitfalls

- **Devin Local's autonomy = harder rollbacks** — If Devin Local does 12 things and 1 is wrong, undoing is harder than Cursor's per-hunk acceptance. Use git branches per Devin Local run as a safety net.
- **Smaller community than Cursor** — Fewer Stack Overflow answers when something breaks. Worth knowing before committing the whole team.

## Verifiable artifacts

- [Mews engineering: full-stack app with Devin Local](https://developers.mews.com/how-windsurf-builds-full-stack-apps/) — Mews is a real hospitality SaaS (not a Cognition customer story). Their engineering blog walks through shipping a feature with Windsurf + Devin Local end-to-end, with code snippets and friction notes.

## Other ways to do this

- [Ship code with AI](https://aistack.sh/stack/ship-code-with-ai): Plan in Claude chat, write in Claude Code, review with CodeRabbit — $50/mo
- [Antigravity (Google)](https://aistack.sh/stack/ship-code-antigravity): Google's AI IDE: Gemini 2M-context inside the editor — $40/mo
- [Claude Code only](https://aistack.sh/stack/ship-code-claude-code): Pure-CLI: scope, plan, write, fix all inside Claude Code — $50/mo
- [Codex (CLI + cloud)](https://aistack.sh/stack/ship-code-codex): OpenAI Codex: terminal CLI for active work, cloud lane for autonomous PRs — $40/mo
- [Cursor (IDE-first)](https://aistack.sh/stack/ship-code-cursor): AI inside the editor, not in a chat tab or terminal — $20/mo

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Curated by alex-w on aistack.sh. Last updated 2026-05-05.