Windsurf
byCodeiumlisted Jun 3, 2026
Windsurf is Codeium's flagship AI IDE, positioned as the main Cursor alternative with its own "Cascade" agent that maintains a persistent context of your project across sessions. It offers a clean, opinionated UX and competitive pricing that has attracted a fast-growing community of developers switching from Cursor. Windsurf's Flows feature enables deep multi-step agentic workflows within the IDE.
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- Pricing
- Free tier; Pro $15/mo; Teams $35/user/mo
- Model backbone
- Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4o, Gemini 1.5 Pro
- Setup complexity
- Easy setup
- Last reviewed
- Awaiting reviews
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