Windsurf Plugin (formerly Codeium) vs Cody

Pricing

Windsurf Plugin (formerly Codeium): Brand retired, plugin in maintenance mode under Devin Desktop

Cody: Enterprise only, from $16,000 a year

Description

Windsurf Plugin (formerly Codeium): The Codeium autocomplete extension, renamed Windsurf Plugin in 2025 and now a maintenance-mode companion to Devin Desktop, formerly Windsurf IDE

Cody: Sourcegraph's AI coding assistant, sold only with Sourcegraph Enterprise since the Free and Pro plans ended in July 2025

Pros

  • Existing installs keep working in VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio, Vim, Neovim, Jupyter, Chrome and Eclipse
  • Keeps AI completions in your current editor instead of switching IDEs
  • Uses Sourcegraph's code search to answer questions across large codebases
  • Works in VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio (experimental), the Sourcegraph web app and a CLI
  • Sourcegraph says it does not use customer data to train models

Cons

  • All plugins are in maintenance mode: no new features
  • Cascade in the JetBrains plugin is being deprecated, and the JetBrains remote plugin is no longer maintained
  • The maker recommends Devin Desktop, or Devin over ACP in JetBrains, instead
  • No plan for individuals: Cody Free and Cody Pro ended on 23 July 2025
  • Sourcegraph Enterprise requires a yearly contract starting at $16,000
  • Built for engineering organizations, not solo founders

Details

Codeium was a free AI autocomplete extension that worked in almost any editor: VS Code, JetBrains, Vim, Emacs and more. Its company built the Windsurf editor on top of it and, in April 2025, renamed itself Windsurf, retiring the Codeium brand and renaming the extensions Windsurf Plugin. Cognition bought the Windsurf business later in 2025 and renamed the editor Devin Desktop on 2 June 2026. codeium.com now opens the Devin Desktop site.

The plugins still exist, but Cognition’s documentation lists all of them as in maintenance mode and recommends the Devin Desktop editor, or Devin over ACP inside JetBrains IDEs. For AI completion in your current editor with active development, GitHub Copilot is the usual choice. If you are willing to switch editors, Devin Desktop or Cursor give you completion plus agent features.

Cody’s strength is Sourcegraph’s code graph. While most AI tools see only the files you have open, Cody can draw on an index of your whole repository, so it can answer questions like “where is the authentication logic?” even when those files are closed.

Sourcegraph stopped new Cody Free and Pro sign-ups on 25 June 2025 and ended both plans on 23 July 2025. Cody is now available only on Sourcegraph Enterprise, which starts at a $16,000 yearly contract, and Sourcegraph pointed individual users to Amp, its separate coding agent. For a solo founder, GitHub Copilot is the closest low-cost editor assistant, Cursor gives whole-codebase context in a full editor, and Claude Code works across a repository from the terminal.

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