Windsurf
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Windsurf is an AI-first IDE and a suite of editor plugins for VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim, and others. It offers a free tier and strong agentic capabilities through its Cascade agent.
Windsurf began as Codeium, an AI coding assistant founded in 2022. The company rebranded to Windsurf in April 2025 to reflect its shift from a code completion tool to a full agentic IDE. In July 2025 it was acquired by Cognition, the company behind the Devin autonomous coding agent.
The IDE
The Windsurf IDE is an "AI-first" editor built on VS Code, similar to Cursor, featuring the Cascade agent as its main agentic capability—it can read your entire codebase, edit files across the project, run terminal commands, and iterate on coding tasks while maintaining awareness of changes during a session. This awareness helps Cascade avoid repeating mistakes or losing context mid-task.
Editor plugins
Windsurf offers plugins for VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim, Emacs, and other editors, carrying over Codeium's broad compatibility for multiple development environments; plugins provide autocomplete and chat features, though the full agentic experience with Cascade requires the standalone Windsurf IDE.
Pricing
Windsurf offers a free tier with limited monthly usage of Cascade and chat, paid plans with higher limits and access to more powerful models, and team and enterprise plans featuring SSO, audit logging, and additional administrative controls; see windsurf.com/pricing for current details.
Privacy
Code context is sent to Windsurf's servers during active sessions, though Windsurf states it does not train models on your code by default; enterprise plans offer stricter data handling options for sensitive or regulated work; review the current Windsurf privacy policy to understand data practices.