Onyx vs Windsurf (now Devin Desktop) (2026): Pricing, Features & Verdict

Why choose Onyx

• Lower estimated cost for 10 users: Free vs $480/mo
• Higher Cost score (8/10 vs 6/10)
• Higher Integration score (8/10 vs 7/10)
• Better fit for it teams (8/10 vs 5/10)

Why choose Windsurf (now Devin Desktop)

• Higher Ease of Use score (8/10 vs 6/10)
• Higher Output Quality score (8/10 vs 7/10)
• Better fit for developers (9/10 vs 7/10)

Onyx

Pros

• The Community Edition is MIT-licensed and free to self-host, with chat, RAG, agents and actions included.
• More than 50 connectors with continuous sync and hybrid search with reranking, covering Slack, Drive, Confluence, GitHub, Jira and others.
• You can use cloud models from OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini, or run open-weight models on your own GPUs through Ollama, vLLM or LiteLLM.
• It can be deployed in your own cloud, on bare metal or fully air-gapped, so documents and model traffic stay inside your environment.
• The published $20 per user per month Business price is easy to compare, while Glean does not publish its pricing.
• Onyx Cloud holds SOC 2 Type II and states GDPR compliance, with yearly penetration tests.

Cons

• Self-hosting is a real operations commitment: about eleven services, at least 4 vCPU and 10 GB of RAM, and you own upgrades, backups and monitoring.
• Permission inheritance from sources, SSO, SCIM group sync and query analytics need the paid Enterprise Edition.
• The first full sync of large sources can take days, and changing the embedding model triggers a full re-index.
• The search index runs on a fixed backend, so you cannot swap in a different vector store.
• There are almost no reviews on G2 or Capterra, so there is little independent user feedback to go on.
• Enterprise pricing is not published, and the Business plan comes with community support only.

Windsurf (now Devin Desktop)

Pros

• Unlimited Tab completions and inline edits are included even on the Free plan.
• One $20 Pro plan gives access to Claude, GPT and Gemini models plus Cognition's cheaper SWE models, and Devin Cloud agents are included.
• The Agent Client Protocol lets Codex, Claude Agent, OpenCode or in-house agents run inside the same editor and Kanban view.
• Moving from VS Code or Cursor is simple: settings, keybindings, extensions and Cursor rules can be imported.
• Security credentials are strong for enterprise buyers: SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP High, zero data retention with model providers, audit logs and VPC deployment.

Cons

• Quota sizes are not published and reset daily and weekly, so budgets are hard to plan and heavy users can hit limits mid-task.
• The March 2026 repricing raised Pro from $15 to $20 for new customers and drew strong user backlash over reduced effective usage.
• The JetBrains plugin is in maintenance mode, which makes the product a poor fit for JetBrains-centric teams.
• Reviewers report weak billing support, including slow replies and charges after cancellation, plus occasional crashes that lose session context.
• Two renames in 2026 and the retirement of Cascade broke scripts and workflows that called the old agent by name.