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Anysphere Cursor vs GitHub Copilot vs Cognition Devin Desktop vs Zed Industries Zed
“Which AI code editor would you use for daily work?”
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- Candidate 1
Anysphere Cursor
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Cursor
- Free plan
- $0/month, limited agent and chat usage
- Plus price
- $8/month or $80/year
- Premium price
- $30/month or $300/year
- Super price
- $100/month or $1,000/year
- Ultra price
- $200/month or $2,000/year
- Teams price
- $30, $100, or $200 per seat/month
- Third-party models
- Premium and above, at API list price
- Usage pool
- Weekly, shared across Cursor and Grok
- Grok API access
- Included on paid plans, billed separately
- Cursor is sold as part of The X Subscription, one subscription covering Grok, Cursor and X, and only through the…
- Prices exclude tax; Enterprise pricing is custom and requires contacting sales.
- Hobby, Pro, Pro+, Ultra and Start are legacy Cursor plans that continue for existing customers only.
Sources: Cursor · Pricing (official) · Models & Pricing | Cursor Docs (official)
Checked 2026-10-30
- Candidate 2
GitHub Copilot
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GitHub Copilot
- Free plan
- $0; 2,000 completions per month; limited chat and agent use
- Pro plan
- $10 per month; 1,500 monthly AI credits ($15 value)
- Pro+ plan
- $39 per month; $70 total AI credits
- Max plan
- $100 per month; $200 total AI credits
- Business plan
- $19 per user per month; 1,900 AI credits per user
- Code completions
- Unlimited on Pro, Pro+ and Max; not counted in AI credits
- Platforms
- GitHub, VS Code, Visual Studio, Xcode, JetBrains, Eclipse, Neovim, Zed, CLI
- Models offered
- 35 models: Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT, Microsoft MAI, Google Gemini, xAI Grok, Kimi
- Coding agent
- Assign work to Copilot; it creates a pull request
- Third-party agents
- Claude Code and Codex (Preview) on Pro and above
- Agent mode, code review, Copilot in the cloud, Copilot CLI and Copilot app consume GitHub AI Credits, and usage varies…
- Enterprise is listed separately at $39 per user per month with 3,900 AI credits per user, per GitHub docs; the plans…
- Free for verified teachers and maintainers of popular open source projects; verified students get the Copilot Student…
Sources: GitHub Copilot plans and pricing (official) · GitHub Copilot licenses - GitHub Docs (official) · GitHub Copilot seats and billing cycles for organizations and enterprises… (official) · REST API endpoints for Copilot usage metrics - GitHub Docs (official)
Checked 2026-10-30
- Candidate 3
Cognition Devin Desktop
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Devin Desktop
- Free plan
- $0
- Pro plan
- $20 per month
- Max plan
- $200 per month
- Teams plan
- $80/mo + $40/mo per full seat
- Enterprise plan
- Custom, contact sales
- Platforms
- Mac, Windows 10+ (64-bit), Linux
- Agent support
- Agent Client Protocol (ACP)
- Session types
- Local machine or Devin Cloud
- Devin Desktop is the new name for Windsurf, built on the Windsurf IDE foundation.
- The official FAQ says plan and pricing are unchanged after the rename, including legacy Windsurf Enterprise plans.
- Windsurf for JetBrains (IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm and more) is a separate download.
Sources: Devin Desktop (official product page) (official) · Download Devin Desktop (official download page) (official) · Install Devin Desktop (Devin Docs) (official)
Checked 2026-10-30
- Candidate 4
Zed Industries Zed
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Zed
- Personal plan price
- $0 per month
- Pro plan price
- $10 per month
- Business price
- $30 per seat per month
- Pro monthly token credit
- $5 included
- Usage beyond included credit
- API list price +10%
- Free trial
- 14 days of Pro, $5 usage balance
- Bring own API keys
- Yes, Personal plan included
- Edit predictions
- Unlimited on Pro and Business
- Business minimum seats
- None; order forms at 25+ seats
- Business has no free trial; monthly plans can be cancelled at any time.
- Business admin controls cover Zed-hosted AI models, edit predictions and data sharing; SSO, SAML and SCIM are planned…
- The Personal plan can be used without AI features or with external keys and agents.
Sources: Zed Pricing (official)
Checked 2026-10-30
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