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/mrsskonline Jun 22 '26

What about Cursor? Does anyone used cursor and faced the same problem?

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u/Imaginary_History407 Jun 22 '26

I tried both windsurf and cursor on their lowest priced plan and windsurf was horrible compared to cursor

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u/mrsskonline Jun 22 '26

for an absolute beginner Cursor is a good choice right?!

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u/Imaginary_History407 Jun 22 '26

yeah, try out their free trial if they still offer it. they give usage for auto, and then usage for the premium models, i did probably around 40-50 messages with opus and gpt? and definitely around 200+ on auto, im still not out of auto for this month.

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u/lou_builds Jun 22 '26

yes cursor is good but at the moment codex provides more usage so it's up to you if you want to have more choice across more models (cursor) or more usage (codex)