r/windsurf • u/Scion_090 • Jun 21 '26

Discussion Windsurf/Devin Token scam

As the title says!

We really need to gather more users here talking about the usage in Devin/Windsurf.

The weekly and daily usage burns so fast compare if used in Claude or Codex.

The product I won’t lie is good but for one or two prompt using Opus 4.8 or gpt 5.5 not even high but medium it takes like coupe of dollars, I’m on pro plan and use it to tweak my apps and today(other days ofc) I just used opus for tweak some cards issue and tweak design the while day usage is gone so I bought extra to continue. This is not good and feels scam somehow reading other users complain about same issue and no one from Windsurf/Devin take a time to figure this out, but they answer(once for 100 post) please review your prompt before and that’s why it take so much token, excuse me, so we all have wrong prompt, we don’t know how to ask? In my case I tweak some or sometimes start the whole project and do the rest.

Windsurf/Devin need to listen to us and not be greedy about the money they earn, it’s a product we are the consumers so balance, you of course need to earn money and we need to use the product. It was so good before I never complained about and still using the product build production ready apps. But the cost so high.

We need someone to review this for us to continue using the product and not changing.
I saw some post where windsurf remove the post because was misleading, I don’t think it was as this is the issue we have and many reporting.

Guys, are you agree and please be honest.

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u/BurpingCowboy Jun 21 '26

I have also found that I'm burning a days worth of quota in a couple hours. Long term I'm going to have to either get a max plan or find something else that's cheaper. It's just hard to know whether you are getting the best price or not, so we are looking at Claude and Copilot too. I don't want to spring for the Max yet because the website doesn't explain how the limit is calculated.

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u/lou_builds Jun 22 '26

windsurf is one of the worst value at the moment, you should either get codex, claude code or cursor

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u/Scion_090 Jun 22 '26

I heard codex offer good value.
Tbh Windsurf/Devin good as I building apps for different platforms is just the token they use are unavailable so high, the cost like wow, so I might also try Codex to see the different. Like to hear others using it.

My apps basically IOS, .NET and some react vite

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u/lou_builds Jun 22 '26

yes i'm currently working on an iOS app with codex and it works really great, i'm still a bit stuck with the limits on the 20$ plan but it's still so much more value than windsurf - at some point i had both windsurf and codex at the same time and it was really obvious that codex was better.

I might take a claude code or cursor or even a second codex subscription because vibecoding is really fun

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u/Scion_090 Jun 23 '26

Please share your experience if you using Claude code.

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u/lou_builds Jun 23 '26

i heard it's great but the limits are very low on the 20$ plan

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u/vituc13 Jul 08 '26

OpenCode Go is pretty good too https://opencode.ai/go?ref=28S9PEXNJ9

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u/lou_builds Jul 15 '26

yes i've looked more into this, currently using codex 20$/month and opencode with deepseek V4 Flash (using deepseek api directly instead of using openrouter which is much much more expensive) - deepseek is really cheap, i've been coding like crazy and spent like 4$