by Cognition · Coding
Worth it if you want an agent coding editor at $20 a month with models from several labs.
Skip if the free plan's light quota is enough, or you need a published usage number.
Start free if the free plan covers you: Light quota to code with agents.
| Plan | Monthly USDCAD | Yearly USDCAD/mo | Limits, in Cognition’s words |
|---|---|---|---|
| FreeBest for trying it before you pay | Free | — | Light quota to code with agents |
| ProBest for the lowest paid price | $20.00≈CA$28.39 Estimate | — | Increased quotas, including access to frontier models from OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and SpaceXAI |
| Max | $200.00≈CA$283.92 Estimate | — | Significantly higher quotas |
Before tax, from Cognition’s official pricing page ↗. ≈ = converted from USD at 1.4196 (Bank of Canada, Oct 15). Other CAD prices are the vendor’s own Canadian price or the App Store Canada price. Hover a price for its label and checked date.
Pro $20, Max $200 per month. Windsurf is now part of Devin Desktop (Cognition); plans unchanged per devin.ai/pricing.
Free plan: Light quota to code with agents.
| Plan | Monthly USDCAD | Yearly USDCAD/mo | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| FreeBest for trying it before you pay | Free | — | Verified · Source for Free: Cognition pricing page ↗Verified · Source ↗ |
| ProBest for the lowest paid price | $20.00≈CA$28.39 Estimate+ 13% HST = ≈CA$32.08/mo in ON | — | Verified · Source for Pro: Cognition pricing page ↗Checked · BoC rate 1.4196 (source for this CAD price) ↗ |
| Max | $200.00≈CA$283.92 Estimate+ 13% HST = ≈CA$320.83/mo in ON | — | Verified · Source for Max: Cognition pricing page ↗Checked · BoC rate 1.4196 (source for this CAD price) ↗ |
USD from Cognition’s US pricing page, before tax. Switch to CAD to see Canadian prices with sales tax.Official CAD = Cognition’s page shows CAD to Canadians. App Store CAD = Apple App Store Canada (web checkout may differ). Estimate (≈) = USD × 1.4196, Bank of Canada, Oct 15, 2026. Tax is an estimate: what you pay depends on the vendor’s GST/HST registration. Yearly totals with tax
Tracking started . No price or plan changes confirmed since then.
| Tool | Cheapest paid USDCAD/mo | Free plan | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|
| CursorVerified Anysphere | $8.00≈CA$11.36 Estimate | Yes | Windsurf vs Cursor |
| GitHub CopilotVerified GitHub | $10.00≈CA$14.20 Estimate | Yes | Windsurf vs GitHub Copilot |
| Base44Verified Base44 (Wix) | $20.00≈CA$28.39 Estimate | Yes | Windsurf vs Base44 |
| KiroVerified AWS | $20.00≈CA$28.39 Estimate | No | Windsurf vs Kiro |
| ReplitVerified Replit | $20.00≈CA$28.39 Estimate | Yes | Windsurf vs Replit |
Prices checked – against official pricing pages. Before tax. ≈ = converted from USD at 1.4196 (Bank of Canada, Oct 15). Other CAD prices are the vendor’s own Canadian price or the App Store Canada price. Hover a price for its label and checked date.
Options for coding that you can run yourself or use on a hosted service. Checked .
| Your setup | Option | Licence or price | Needs / free tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows or Linux PC with an NVIDIA GPU or Apple Silicon Mac | Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B ↗ | Apache-2.0 | MoE 3B active; ~20GB at 4-bit, 32GB Mac |
| CPU only or a laptop | Ollama ↗ | MIT | Runs on macOS/Windows/Linux; RAM needs scale with model (8B ≈ 8–16GB RAM) |
| No hardware (hosted) | OpenRouter (free models) ↗ | Pay per token for paid models; ':free' model variants $0 | Yes: free models 20 req/min, 50/day (1000/day after $10 lifetime credit purchase) |
We haven’t recorded a public leaderboard ranking for this use yet, so these aren’t ranked by quality.
USD prices from Cognition's official pricing page (US version, before tax), last verified . A script re-checks that every listed price still appears on that page, and nothing here changes until a person confirms it. Each CAD price shows where it came from and when we checked it; estimates use the Bank of Canada rate (1.4196, Oct 15, 2026). Usage limits, credits and models are quoted from the vendor’s page; “Not published” means the page doesn’t say. Full method