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Windsurf
by Cognition AI
Windsurf is an agentic AI-first IDE originally built by Codeium (formerly Exafunction), featuring the Cascade agentic AI system that can autonomously plan, edit, and execute multi-file coding tasks with deep codebase awareness. It ships a proprietary coding model (SWE-1.5) optimized for software engineering tasks and competes directly with Cursor as one of the leading AI code editors. Codeium/Windsurf was acquired by Cognition AI (makers of Devin) for approximately $250M in December 2025.
8 Overall Score
Scores
Capability 9
Ease of Use 8
Documentation 7
Reliability 7
Value 8
Momentum 9
Details
- Status
- active
- Pricing
- freemium
- Launch Date
- Website
- https://windsurf.com
- Last Updated
Key Features
- Cascade agentic AI system for autonomous multi-file coding tasks
- Proprietary SWE-1.5 model fine-tuned for software engineering
- Deep codebase context and awareness across large repos
- Credit-based predictable pricing model
- Multi-model support including Claude and other frontier models