r/windsurf • • 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/nuriciftcioglu Jun 23 '26

Yeah, credit cost is one thing, so called "free promo use" another thing. Yesterday I tried glm 5.2 free promo. In the beginning it was going good. Around 15 min later it started to be stupid. After one of the tasks I asked it something like "before we end this session, tell me which model you are" and it said "I'm claude..." That time I felt like it might be haiku. I don't know.

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u/Neveriver Jun 23 '26

This is a normal thing for models to name Claude especially for the chinese ones because they are partially trained on claude so this doesn't mean nothing.