Windsurf Plugin (formerly Codeium) vs Pieces for Developers
Pricing
Windsurf Plugin (formerly Codeium): Brand retired, plugin in maintenance mode under Devin Desktop
Pieces for Developers: Free for individuals
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
Pieces for Developers: AI-powered snippet manager that saves, tags, and lets you reuse code across IDEs and browsers
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
- Actually free for individuals, not time-limited
- Works across IDEs, browsers, and collaboration tools so snippets follow you
- On-device AI option means your code stays local
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- Cascade in the JetBrains plugin is being deprecated, and the JetBrains remote plugin is no longer maintained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
- It is a snippet manager, not a coding assistant (different use case than Cursor or Copilot)
- Takes effort to build the habit of saving snippets instead of just re-Googling
- Less useful if you do not frequently reuse code patterns across projects
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.
Pieces is not an AI coding assistant in the Cursor/Copilot sense. It is more like an AI-powered clipboard for code. Save a snippet from your browser, your editor, or a Slack message, and Pieces automatically adds descriptions, tags, and related context. When you need that snippet later, you search for it instead of digging through bookmarks.
The on-device AI is a nice touch: your code stays on your machine. Useful if you find yourself copy-pasting the same patterns across projects or constantly looking up that one regex you always forget. Less useful if your workflow does not involve much code reuse.
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