Windsurf

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 December 2025 it was acquired by Cognition AI, 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. Its main agentic feature is Cascade, which can read your codebase, edit files across the project, run terminal commands, and iterate on a task. Cascade maintains awareness of what has changed during a session, which helps it avoid repeating mistakes or losing context mid-task.

# Editor plugins

Windsurf also offers plugins for VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim, Emacs, and a range of other editors — carrying over the broad compatibility that Codeium was known for. The plugins cover autocomplete and chat; the deepest agentic experience requires the Windsurf IDE.

# Pricing

A free tier is available with limited monthly usage of Cascade and chat. Paid plans add higher limits, access to more powerful models. Team and enterprise plans include SSO and audit logging. Pricing details are at windsurf.com/pricing.

# Privacy

Code context is sent to Windsurf's servers during active sessions. Windsurf states it does not train models on your code by default. Enterprise plans offer stricter data handling options. Review the current Windsurf privacy policy before using it with sensitive or regulated codebases.