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    The agentic IDE with Cascade. Deep context awareness across your entire codebase.

    9.1/10
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    Windsurf (acquired by OpenAI for $3B in 2025) is an agentic IDE that challenges Cursor. Its Cascade technology provides deep context awareness across your entire codebase without manual file tagging. 2025 features: SWE-1.5 model (13x faster than Sonnet 4.5), GPT-5.1, Lifeguard bug finder, Codemaps visual navigation, in-IDE browser preview. Supports 40+ IDEs including JetBrains. At $15/month it's 25% cheaper than Cursor.

    Evaluation Scores
    Performance & Scalability
    9.5/10
    AI Precision
    9/10
    Ease of Use
    8.5/10
    Price/Quality
    9.5/10
    Pros
    • Cascade Flow: Context management superior to Cursor in many complex scenarios
    • Zero latency: Extremely fast thanks to proprietary mixed models
    • Generous Free plan: Offers features that are Pro elsewhere
    • Painless migration: Import settings and extensions from VS Code in 1 click
    Cons
    • Less 'hyped' in the community compared to Cursor (fewer user-made tutorials)
    • Some enterprise features (e.g., full on-prem) are still being rolled out
    Pricing
    PlanPriceFeatures
    Free$0Unlimited Cascade Base, Chat, Autocomplete
    Pro$15/monthAccess to advanced models (GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet), Supercomplete, unlimited premium requests
    EnterpriseCustomSSO, VPC, Zero-day retention
    Technical Features

    LLM Models

    Flexible

    Integrates ultra-fast proprietary models (Codeium) for autocomplete and top-tier models (Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4o) for complex reasoning via Cascade.

    Deployment

    Complex

    Local IDE, deployment depends on your skills (git push, CLI, manual Vercel integration). Not a click-to-deploy builder.

    Integration Level

    Low

    Focuses on pure code. Integrations (e.g., n8n) must be hand-coded via APIs.

    Extra Features

    Built-in Hosting
    Custom Agents
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