Windsurf
Free tierAgentic AI code editor from Codeium — Cascade agent handles multi-file tasks end to end.
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Recent changes
- Plans updated: Free plan at $0 with light quota and limited models; Pro at $20/month with increased quotas and frontier model access; Max at $200/month with significantly higher quotas; Teams at $80/month base + $40/month per full dev seat (up to 200 users); Enterprise pricing on request.
- Models updated: Multiple providers: OpenAI, Anthropic (Claude), Google (Gemini), SpaceXAI, plus open-source models; proprietary SWE-2 model
- API: now available
- Self-hosting: now available
- Models updated: Multiple providers: OpenAI, Anthropic (Claude), Google (Gemini), SpaceXAI, plus leading open source models, and Cognition's own SWE-2
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Windsurf — Technical Overview
Windsurf is an AI-powered IDE and agent management platform built for software developers and engineering teams. It combines a full development environment with multi-agent orchestration, giving developers direct control over AI agents from within their editor.
Core architecture highlights:
- Agent Command Center / Devin Desktop — a unified interface for spawning, monitoring, and directing AI agents across tasks
- Multi-agent orchestration via Spaces — organize parallel agent workstreams with a Kanban view for task tracking
- Supercomplete — predictive, multi-line code completion that anticipates intent beyond single-token suggestions
- Fast Context — instant codebase indexing and navigation, enabling agents and completions to reference relevant code at low latency
- Model flexibility — route tasks to OpenAI, Anthropic (Claude), Google (Gemini), SpaceXAI, open-source models, or Windsurf's proprietary SWE-2 model
- MCP server support — extend agent capabilities via Model Context Protocol servers
- Language server extensions — integrates with
rust-analyzer,clangd,gopls,ESLint,Prettier, and the Windsurf Pyright Extension - API available — programmatic access for custom tooling and automation
- Self-hostable — supports VPC and dedicated deployment for enterprise environments
Integrations: Slack, Linear, Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Notion, Figma, Sentry, Stripe, Vercel, Datadog, Atlassian (Jira & Confluence), and major language servers.
Pricing: Freemium. Free tier ($0, light quota, limited models) → Pro ($20/month) → Max ($200/month) → Teams ($80/month base + $40/month per full dev seat, up to 200 users) → Enterprise (on request). Trusted by 1M+ developers and 4,000+ enterprise customers.