Codeium was a free AI code completion tool that became Windsurf, was acquired by Cognition, and now ships as Devin Desktop. The Codeium brand is retired — this page explains the chain and what existing users should do.
If you are looking for Codeium, the short answer is that it no longer exists under that name. The product became Windsurf, Windsurf was acquired by Cognition, and it now ships as Devin Desktop.
You can verify this without taking anyone's word for it. Visiting codeium.com issues a permanent redirect to windsurf.com, which in turn redirects to devin.ai/desktop.
This page exists because "Codeium" is still widely searched and widely linked. Below is the sequence of changes, what each one altered, and what to do if you are still running the old plugin.
| Current status | Retired brand — the product now ships as Devin Desktop |
|---|---|
| Rename chain | Codeium to Windsurf, then Windsurf to Devin Desktop |
| Address today | codeium.com redirects to windsurf.com, which redirects to devin.ai/desktop |
| Owner | Cognition AI |
| Acquisition | Cognition acquired Windsurf, reportedly for around $250 million, in December 2025 |
| Rename date | Windsurf was renamed Devin Desktop in June 2026 |
| Original product | Free AI autocomplete and chat with broad IDE plugin support |
| What to do | Existing users are served by Devin Desktop; new evaluations should start there |
Three distinct changes happened in roughly two years, which is why search results about this product contradict each other so badly.
Codeium's original appeal was straightforward: strong AI autocomplete and chat, available free to individuals, with plugins covering an unusually wide range of editors rather than a single flagship IDE.
That combination made it the default recommendation for developers who wanted AI assistance without a subscription, and for anyone working in an editor the bigger vendors had ignored.
The free tier was the differentiator. When competitors charged for basic completion, Codeium did not, and it built a large individual user base on that alone.
The shift from Codeium to Windsurf tracked the wider change in AI coding tools. Autocomplete stopped being a differentiator once every vendor shipped it, and attention moved to agents that could carry out whole tasks.
Windsurf was a standalone editor with an agent at its centre rather than a plugin bolted onto someone else's IDE. That is a fundamentally different product, which is why the rename made sense rather than being cosmetic.
The Cognition acquisition then folded that editor into a company whose entire identity is autonomous software engineering, and the Devin Desktop name reflects where it landed.
Installed plugins carrying the Codeium name are the tail end of a product that has moved on twice. They will not receive the capabilities that arrived after the rebrands.
The practical step is to evaluate Devin Desktop directly at devin.ai/desktop rather than searching for Codeium documentation, which is now largely orphaned and describes a product that no longer ships.
If you originally chose Codeium specifically because it was free for individuals, verify the current terms before assuming that arrangement survived two changes of ownership and direction.
Uninstalling is worth doing deliberately rather than leaving the old extension in place. A dormant AI plugin still holds whatever editor and repository permissions it was granted, and an abandoned integration is exactly the kind of access that never gets reviewed.
Some developers picked Codeium for reasons the current product no longer serves — a lightweight plugin, a free individual tier, or support for a less common editor.
If that describes you, the honest advice is to compare rather than follow the rename by default. The AI coding space has several mature options now, and a product that changed name, owner, and shape twice may no longer match why you chose it.
Weigh three things: whether your editor is supported, whether the free or entry tier still covers your use, and whether you want an agent-first tool at all or simply good completion.
Codeium's path is not unusual, and that is the useful lesson in it. AI coding tools have consolidated fast, and the products that launched as free plugins have mostly either been absorbed or repositioned as agents.
The economics explain it. Free autocomplete was affordable when models were small and suggestions were short; agent workloads that read a repository and run commands are expensive, and no vendor gives that away indefinitely.
If you are choosing an AI coding tool now, weight the vendor's funding and direction alongside the feature list. A tool that fits perfectly today is worth less if its owner is heading somewhere you are not.
The redirect test used on this page works for any product you suspect has changed hands. Request the original domain and follow what the server returns rather than trusting a review.
A permanent redirect to a different brand is definitive — it is the vendor telling you where the product went. A parked page or a dead domain is equally informative in the other direction.
Pair that with the vendor's own changelog or blog, and you can establish a product's real status in a couple of minutes, regardless of how confidently outdated articles state otherwise.
Search results for Codeium are unusually unreliable. Reviews written at different points describe a free plugin, a standalone editor, and an agent product — all accurate for their moment, none accurate now.
Treat any Codeium article without a visible date as suspect. The redirect chain is the one check that cannot go stale: whatever codeium.com resolves to today is the current answer.
Details of the acquisition value and rename dates come from press reporting rather than a vendor statement, so they are reported here as such.
Codeium is a discontinued brand, not a discontinued product. The engineering continued; the name did not. Anyone evaluating it today is really evaluating Devin Desktop under Cognition's ownership.
The listing stays published because the search demand is real and the answer is genuinely useful — knowing that a tool was renamed twice saves an afternoon of chasing dead documentation.
For current features, supported editors, and plans, go to devin.ai/desktop. Anything written about Codeium's own capabilities now describes a product that has been superseded.
Original product: free AI code completion for individual developers
Original product: AI chat with codebase context
Original product: plugins across an unusually wide range of editors
Successor product: agent-first editor experience, formerly branded Windsurf
Successor product: now distributed as Devin Desktop by Cognition AI
Codeium has an AInexfinder Editor Score of 4.0/5.
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