When Do Windsurf Credits Reset? Quota Reset Times Explained

When Do Windsurf Credits Reset? Quota Reset Times Explained

Windsurf, the AI IDE Cognition renamed to Devin Desktop 1, resets your usage allowance on two clocks at once: a daily allowance and a weekly allowance, and both resets run on the calendar date rather than at a fixed hour 2. Your account's exact reset moment is not a published clock time; it appears in the usage meter inside Devin Desktop, or on your plan page at app.devin.ai/settings/plans 23. On the credit system that older guides still describe, prompt credits reset once a month at the start of your billing cycle with no rollover, and purchased add-on credits never expire at all 3.

That is the whole answer. The rest of this page covers the arithmetic the account pages only sketch, what old credits became in the migration, and why so many links answering this question now open a page called Devin Desktop.

Two clocks, not one: the math behind the 1/7 clause

Since March 2026, Devin Desktop has run on quota-based usage instead of credits: each plan carries a daily budget and a weekly budget, both measured in tokens, and both refresh automatically 2. In the vendor's words, "your quota resets on a daily and weekly basis, based on the calendar date" 2.

The load-bearing sentence is the one about the ratio: "Your daily quota is more than 1/7 of your weekly quota, enabling users who work on weekends to fully use their weekly allowance" 2. That clause is doing real work. If the daily cap were exactly one-seventh of the weekly one, every day you skipped would permanently strand one-seventh of your week: the weekly reset would still arrive on schedule, but no later day would let you spend more than its own slice, so the stranded allowance could never come back. Lifting the daily cap above the even split is what makes catch-up possible, and it re-frames which limit actually stops you when you are catching up after missed days: the weekly cap, not the daily one.

The ratio clause also generalizes into a planning rule neither account page prints: to spend a full weekly allowance in k working days, your daily cap must be at least 1/k of the weekly pool 2. The worked cases:

| Days you work in the week | Smallest daily cap that still spends the full week | | - | - | | 7, the even split 2 | 1/7 of weekly, about 14% | | 5, a standard week 2 | 1/5 of weekly, 20% | | 3, weekends plus one day 2 | 1/3 of weekly, about 33% | | 2, weekends only 2 | 1/2 of weekly, 50% |

Read the last row against the vendor's weekend promise and a hidden number appears: for a developer who works only Saturday and Sunday to spend the full week in two days, the daily cap must reach at least half of the weekly allowance, three and a half times the even split. Devin promises the outcome without publishing the number that would let you verify it; your own usage meter and plan page are the only places your live numbers show. Neither the token figures per plan nor the exact ratio above one-seventh appears on either account page 23.

Where your exact reset time is shown

The vendor's instruction, verbatim: "You can check your remaining quota and when it resets from the usage meter in Devin Desktop, or on your plan page" 2. That plan page is app.devin.ai/settings/plans, available once you are logged in 3; it is a web page, so the reset countdown is checkable from any browser without opening the editor. Inside the editor, the same information sits one click away: click the Devin Desktop widget in the status bar and open the Plan Info tab 3.

The countdown doubles as a diagnostic neither account page spells out. A reset landing tomorrow means the daily allowance is what ran out; a reset landing days away means the weekly cap has closed. The read-out follows directly from the two-clock design 23.

Notice what is missing from both pages: a reset hour. Neither account page states a time of day for the reset, or even which timezone the calendar date is counted in 23. If your allowance comes back at what feels like an odd hour, that is why. The calendar date is the rule; the meter, not the docs, holds your account's exact moment.

The legacy answer: credits reset at billing-cycle start

If your plan or enterprise contract still uses the credit system, the reset rules are the ones older guides describe 3:

• Prompt credits are issued monthly and reset at the start of each new billing cycle; unused credits do not roll over 3.
• Add-on credits you purchased never expire and carry over until fully used; once monthly credits run out, add-on credits are consumed automatically 3.
• Teams buy additional credits as a pool shared across members at $120 for 1,000 pooled credits 3.
• Auto-refill tops the pool up when it drops below 15 credits, in multiples of $120, subject to a monthly budget cap that defaults to $160 3.

The default message costs 1 credit regardless of how many steps the agent takes, and a failed message (an edit blocked by unsaved changes, for example) consumes nothing 3.

$120 per 1,000 credits is $0.12 per credit, and that arithmetic exposes a mechanic the usage page states in pieces but never assembles: refills come in $120 units, so the $160 default monthly cap permits exactly one automatic 1,000-credit top-up per month. A second refill would cost $240 and breach the cap by $80, and the $40 of headroom left after the first refill can never trigger anything. Auto-refill on defaults is single-shot: a team expecting heavier burn has to raise the cap in plan settings before the month runs, because the default quietly stops after one top-up 3.

The never-expire rule for add-on credits also carries a condition the headline omits. The same page states that add-on credits require an active subscription to be used: if the subscription expires, remaining add-on credits cannot be used until you resubscribe, though they are not removed and come back once you do 3. "Never expire" is exactly true; "always spendable" is not. For a team still on credits with a large pooled balance, that is the fine print that matters.

The full reset picture on one screen:

| System | What resets | Cadence | Reset lands on | Unused balance | | - | - | - | - | - | | Quota-based, current 2 | Daily allowance | Every day | The calendar date | No published banking rule | | Quota-based, current 2 | Weekly allowance | Every week | The calendar date | No published banking rule | | Credit-based, legacy 3 | Prompt credits | Monthly | The start of your billing cycle | No rollover | | Credit-based, legacy 3 | Add-on credits | Never | Nothing to reset | Kept until fully used |

Your old credits became extra-usage dollars

Existing subscribers were moved to quotas, and add-on credits were converted into extra-usage balance at the rate each subscriber paid 2. The printed example uses the individual rate: prompt credits sold for $0.04 each, so 250 remaining credits became $10 of extra usage 2. The balance is refundable at any time through support, for the equivalent dollar amount 2, and existing Pro ($15/month) and Teams ($30 per seat) subscribers keep those prices indefinitely 2.

The example the docs never print is the pooled one. Teams bought shared credits at $120 per 1,000, three times the $0.04 individual rate 32. The rate-paid conversion clause implies a 1,000-credit team pool became $120 of extra usage, not the $40 the individual example would suggest, an $80 difference per 1,000 credits; but the quota page carries no pooled-rate example, so a Teams admin holding a large pool should confirm the converted balance with support before budgeting around it.

The migration also moved the clock itself. Every existing paid subscriber got a free extra week, meaning the next renewal date was extended by 7 days 2. On the legacy system the renewal date was the reset anchor, so the switch shifted every migrating subscriber's reset moment a week later before replacing it with the daily and weekly clocks.

Why Windsurf docs links now open a Devin page

A related question travels with this one: why the documentation link stopped looking familiar. The receipt is on the old domain itself, where docs.windsurf.com now serves the Devin Desktop documentation 4. What changed name, and what deliberately did not:

• The docs: docs.windsurf.com serves Devin Desktop pages, and the live account pages live under docs.devin.ai 4.
• The package: on Linux, the installed package is now called devin-desktop, while the repository URLs still use the pre-rebrand windsurf naming 4.
• The transition: a transitional windsurf package still pulls in devin-desktop, so existing installs keep updating 4.
• The residue: installs from before the rename may still sit in a Windsurf folder until the full installer is run again 4.

So if a bookmark points at docs.windsurf.com for reset answers, the two live pages worth re-bookmarking are the quota page and the plans-and-usage page under docs.devin.ai 4.

What going over the cap costs, and how to make the allowance last

The two-clock design gives the overage decision a shape the account pages leave implicit, and the countdown diagnostic decides it. Waiting is free: a daily-cap stop refills tomorrow, and a weekly-cap stop costs at most the rest of the week. Free users only have the wait, since the vendor's guidance for the Free plan is to wait until the next daily or weekly reset; Pro, Max, and Teams users can buy extra usage instead, billed at API list prices for the model run, with priority and speed configurations (the vendor names SWE-1.5 Fast and fast Opus variants) costing more 2.

Paying also removes the ceiling rather than raising it: quota limits never limit extra usage, only the built-in allowance from your plan 2. The cheaper path is the vendor's own stretch advice: be precise with instructions and trim unnecessary context, run routine tasks on the lower-cost SWE family such as SWE-1.7 or SWE-1.6, keep sessions short when a quick prompt will do, and stay on a single frontier model so request caching cuts token use; free models do not count against quota at all 2.

What Devin has never published

Three things stay unstated on both account pages: token or quota numbers per plan, the exact ratio above one-seventh, and a reset hour or timezone 23. Plan-by-plan prices and the March 2026 announcement itself are covered in our Windsurf pricing guide 5; this page carries only the clocks. Until the vendor publishes numbers, the usage meter in the editor and the plan page at app.devin.ai/settings/plans are the source of truth for your account's reset moment 23.

Verified September 2026.