Re-checked on 2026-10-14: the prices below are unchanged, and windsurf.com itself now redirects to devin.ai/desktop, so Windsurf is sold as Devin Desktop.
Windsurf publishes five plans on its pricing page. Free is $0, Pro is $20 a month, Max is $200, Teams is $80 a month for the team plan plus $40 a month per full developer seat, and Enterprise is quoted rather than listed. Those figures were read from windsurf.com/pricing on 2026-09-11. That URL redirected to the live Devin pricing page. The page title read Devin Plans and Pricing. Nothing on it stated whether prices include tax.
The sticker price is not the whole bill. Windsurf's FAQ says each paid plan includes a usage allowance that refreshes automatically on a daily and weekly basis. Cost per message varies by model, task size, complexity, and reasoning. Past the included usage on a paid plan, extra usage is purchased and consumed at API pricing.
That structure is what a per-seat editor charge looks like once agents do the typing. Empyre prices a different unit and appears further down for that contrast, not as a substitute for an editor.
Windsurf plans, as published on 2026-09-11
| Plan | Price | What the page says it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Light quota to code with agents. Limited model availability. Unlimited inline edits and unlimited Tab completions. |
| Pro | $20 / mo | Increased quotas, including OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini frontier models. Full model availability. Free use of SWE-2 in Devin Desktop and CLI through October 16, 2026 (the date on the page when re-read on 2026-10-14). Access to cloud agents (Devin Cloud). |
| Max | $200 / mo | Everything in Pro, plus significantly higher quotas. The page labels this tier for power users who need those higher limits. |
| Teams | $80 / mo for the team plan, plus $40 / mo per full developer seat | Up to 200 users, sharing and collaboration, centralized billing, admin dashboard with analytics, and priority support. |
| Enterprise | Let's talk | Quoted. The page lists SAML/OIDC SSO, centralized enterprise admin controls, a dedicated release option, and a dedicated account team. |
Why the monthly price is a floor, not a ceiling
A seat used to be a predictable line item. An editor cost the same whether you opened it twice a week or lived in it, because what you paid for was the software rather than the work.
Model usage broke that. Windsurf's FAQ says most users never hit their limits. If you do go beyond the included usage on a paid plan, you purchase extra usage at API pricing.
The allowance itself refreshes on a daily and weekly rhythm rather than as a single monthly pool. That is a different mechanism from a credit counter, but the budgeting problem is the same: a heavy week and a quiet week cost different amounts.
If a fixed number matters to your planning, plan against the plan price plus what your own past weeks of extra usage came to.
Three questions that decide the plan, in order
Each one is answerable before spending anything, and each one moves you between the tiers above:
How often does an agent do the work rather than you?
Windsurf splits individual paid tiers at $20 and $200 with no listed step between them. The Max tier is named on the page for power users who need significantly higher quotas.
Does anyone else need to see the bill?
Teams is $80 a month for the team plan plus $40 a month per full developer seat. Flex seats are listed separately in the compare table. Each full user includes their own generous quota and access to Devin Desktop.
Do you need an invoice rather than a card?
Enterprise is Let's talk. That one requirement moves an otherwise small team off the self-serve price list entirely.
What the compare table adds
Below the plan cards, the same page publishes a compare table. On 2026-09-11 it listed Free at $0, Pro at $20 a month, Max at $200 a month, Team at $80 a month, and Enterprise as Let's talk.
That table also names flex seats at $40 a month per full user, with each full user carrying their own quota and Devin Desktop access. Concurrent session limits rise by tier, up to unlimited on Team and Enterprise in the table.
Windsurf's separate compare page at windsurf.com/compare/windsurf-vs-cursor was not used for the dollar figures here. Where marketing compare tables disagree with a live pricing page, the live pricing page is the figure dated above.
What a seat does not include
An editor subscription buys help writing code. It does not buy the release, the sign-in, the payment path, the customer mail, the legal pages, or the person who notices in week six that nothing has shipped. Those were never Windsurf's job and the pricing page does not claim them.
For a working engineer that is the right scope, and a $20 seat that removes hours of typing is cheap. The gap only matters if the reason you are typing at all is that there is no engineer. What you want then is a product with customers, not a codebase.
Two different things being priced
| Aspect | Windsurf | Empyre |
|---|---|---|
| Unit being sold | A seat in an editor | A company being built and operated |
| Who does the work | You, assisted | Eight agents, each on its own schedule |
| Free tier | $0, light quota, unlimited Tab | No free plan; a 3-day Starter trial |
| Entry paid price | $20 / mo | $49 / mo |
| What the paid tier buys | Higher daily and weekly agent quotas | A monthly AI spend budget the CFO agent gates before work runs |
| Past the allowance | Extra usage at API pricing | Work stops until the cycle turns over, or credits are topped up |
Where Empyre's version of this costs more, and where it stops
Empyre's paid plans are $49, $149 and $299 a month, and half of each is the AI spend budget the agents work inside: $25, $75 and $150 respectively. Starter comes with a 3-day free trial, and every plan costs two months less billed annually. The first build is the complete product, and the founder is emailed the moment the site is live, usually between half an hour and an hour.
The honest limit belongs in the same paragraph as the price. Empyre is newer than the tools it is compared with here, and it publishes no customer counts it would not want audited. What can be checked directly is the product itself: every company it builds is live at its own address, with its own repository.
The comparison is therefore not that one number is smaller. A $20 editor seat reliably does what it says. A $49 plan that operates a business is a larger claim, made by a newer platform. That difference in certainty is part of the price.
Common questions
How much is Windsurf per month?
Free is $0, Pro is $20 a month, Max is $200 a month, and Teams is $80 a month for the team plan plus $40 a month per full developer seat. Enterprise is quoted as Let's talk. Read from windsurf.com/pricing on 2026-09-11, which redirected to the live Devin pricing page. Check that page before budgeting, because prices move.
Is there a free version of Windsurf?
Yes. The Free plan is $0. The page lists a light quota to code with agents, limited model availability, and unlimited inline edits and Tab completions.
Does Windsurf charge extra beyond the plan price?
It can. Windsurf's FAQ says each paid plan includes a usage allowance that refreshes daily and weekly. If you go beyond the included usage on a paid plan, you purchase extra usage consumed at API pricing.
Is Windsurf worth it compared to an AI business platform?
They are not substitutes. Windsurf makes an engineer faster inside a repository. A platform like Empyre exists for the case where there is no engineer, and the missing pieces are release, sign-in, payments and everything after launch.
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Last updated 2026-10-27. Competitor descriptions reflect each product's publicly documented capabilities at that date; they change often, so check the source before relying on a detail.